We really have to respect writer Keith W. Isn’t this one of the most awesome titles for a film ever! Superfights has it all, a crime story, a love story, a wise master/cocky student relationship, and a subplot about mind-control drugs. After winning a few fights, (some of them suspiciously easy) he discovers some dark secrets behind the scenes, and soon enough does not fight for money anymore, but his life! After he saves the girl Sally from robbers (and immediately falls in love with her), he gets discovered by Superfights director Robert and signs a contract to join the crew. Jack is big fan of the Superfights fighting tournament series, and a veritable martial artist himself. We start with Superfights, and continue with his sophomore Bloodmoon in the next article.īloodmoon: Gary Daniels and Tony Leung Bring the B-Movie Action Magic While Wang’s rubber-suit-monster fight flick is a masterpiece in its own right, Superfights goes even more over the top! In this brief two-article series, we will have a look at the two ultimate martial arts classics Leung made during his two-year stint in the US. The film was the second one to introduce true Hong Kong style action to the US market, after Steve Wang’s Guyver: Dark Hero hit video store shelves one year earlier. Their first entries were the No Retreat No Surrender films, that gave martial arts fan three light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining fight flicks.Ī few more movies would follow, and in 1995 Tony Leung heeded Seasonal Films’ call to direct Superfights. The Seasonal Film corporation co-produced Jackie Chan’s ultimate classic, and started to embark on a US venture in the 1980s to export their vision of martial arts cinema. Superfights aka Karate Tiger 9 (1995)īloodsport is a great movie, but compared to a Hong Kong classic like Drunken Master that was made 10 years earlier, its fight scenes are pretty much child’s play. A perfect match of ultimate action fights with the total cheesiness of a Saturday morning cartoon.
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