The Spiritual Boxer Sub Download

The Spiritual Boxer Sub Download

A con artist uses Kung Fu to swindle villagers for money by pretending to be possessed by angry gods. However, when the villagers are later threatened by bandits he must use the same skills for good.
THE SPIRITUAL BOXER is as handsomely mounted as many a Shaw Brothers production, but the plot lacks a certain something. The hero of the piece is Wong Yue, playing a confidence trickster who employs various methods to convince audiences that he&#39;s possessed by the spirits of various gods, thus making a living from people&#39;s gullibility. After a while, he makes enemies of a gang of thugs while at the same time being asked to investigate a haunted temple.<br/><br/>The film is notable for being one of the first examples of the knockabout comedy genre later popularised by Jackie Chan. Wong Yue gets up to all manner of mischief with his tricks, but he lacks the genuine charisma of many of his peers. Still, there&#39;s much fun to be had with burning coals, red hot pokers and the like, although my favourite segment is the pure horror scene in a haunted building which is up there with the best of Hong Kong&#39;s black magic movies.<br/><br/>THE SPIRITUAL BOXER lacks the kind of well-choreographed action that we know so well from the studio&#39;s classics, but that&#39;s not to say that it&#39;s without incident. Scenes of Wong Yue getting possessed by the monkey god and the like are a lot of fun and neatly prefigure later movies like KNOCKABOUT or ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND. Fung Hark-On has a meaty role as an antagonist and there&#39;s an odd opening sequence featuring Ti Lung and Chen Kuan Tai which has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. In the end, this is a watchable movie but it&#39;s not as funny as others and doesn&#39;t have the great action of others, so it&#39;s rather an odd, middling combo.
Brian Camp, as usual, reviews this film very well but it is more fun than he makes it sound. Wang (Wong) Yu is very likable and the storyline is strong and interesting. I found the final fight against the robbers more convincing than he did, with Wang&#39;s original master urging him on to use the correct counter style from the side lines. He is actually saved in the end by the police and unusually he doesn&#39;t fight the main villains including the versatile Fung Hak On (who doesn&#39;t really get to show his fighting skills). I also want to mention the humour which apart from the usual unbelievable not recognising the beautiful girl as man joke, is quite good and well handled - particularly in the funny exorcism scene. I really enjoyed this film and though it&#39;s not a classic, as Lau Kar Leung&#39;s directorial debut it showed real promise.

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