Review of Flash Legs, The

Introduction

The Flash Legs sounds like it could be any kind of movie, from a Full Monty style comedy to a superhero movie. It turns out to be one of those interminable Hong Kong thrillers full of Bruce Lee wannabes kicking seven shades of merde out of each other. Made in 1977 and also known as Shaolin Deadly Kicks, it stars Tao-liang Tan out to gather up the eight pieces of a treasure map and kick some kung-fu ass into the bargain.

Video

I have seldom seen so much negative crap on a movie - every bloody splice passes as a set of white lines. There`s tons of handling damage and the movie is presented as letterboxed 1.85:1, so anybody wondering what the original issue of Star Wars is going to look like...

Audio

Appalling dubbing is par for the course, but I was really alarmed by the use of lifted musical cues from Bond movies (as if nobody would notice).

Features

Don`t make me laugh.

Conclusion

I could find precious little on the web to enlighten me any more to the intricacies of this Kung-Fu potboiler. Quite honestly I was more concerned by the appalling quality of the print used to master this disc. It really looks like the movie has been lying at the bottom of a pigsty since 1977 and was simply hosed down before loading it on to a Spirit Datacine. Blech.