Rating: 4.5/5
Cult Movie Challenge 2017 | 9/52 | CAT III
The best Indiana Jones movie isn’t an Indiana Jones movie. Goodbye, Dr. Jones. Hello, Dr. Yuen!
Ni Kuang, author of the Dr. Yuen and Wisely series, has his heroes at a party, where he regales a story about his heroes and a stubborn reporter for Western Daily, Tsui Hung. After Dr. Yuen stops a hostage situation (no thanks to Tsui), he fights a man named Black Dragon, who reminds him of a blood curse placed one year ago.
Dr. Yeun must travel to Northern Thailand to find a permanent cure for his curse and Bachu’s, a woman he encountered there.
This movie moves a mile a minute! I initially wrote so much more for the summary, but I put my favorite bits in the spoilers section below. The film is so full of delightful surprises and fun! I had a massive grin on my face nearly the entire runtime.
** Stray Thoughts / Spoilers **
- Ni Kuang plays himself! I can tell—he’s such a smiley little nerd.
- Tsui wants an interview with Dr. Yuen and tasteful nudes of him.
- Wait, so a woman paid off Dr. Yuen’s maid so that she could fuck him?
- Dr. Yuen goes to Thailand to find treatments for AIDs. Is the blood curse a metaphor for AIDs?
- Bachu is just bathing in a t-shirt for no reason.
- The Great Wizard’s worm baby.
- Skeletons with glowing eyes are the 80’s most significant contributions to cinema.
- Bachu is using boob magic to help Yuen.
- The bullet AND the arrow.
- Just churning up those kids!
- The Buddha statue fight scene is an all-timer!
- Oh, sweetie, the movie thinks it’s progressive when its last message is, “Women’s beauty comes from the heart.”