THE VICTIM is my favorite kung-fu movie. It’s certainly not the best kung-fu movie ever made. It doesn’t have the most impressive action, or the most coherent plot. There are slow sections, lame comedy, and really obvious doubling. But I love it. It’s the first kung-fu movie I saw that had the physicality and brutality that typify many of the very best of the genre. It was my introduction to Sammo Hung as a leading man. Frankly, it opened up to me just how enjoyable a martial arts movie could be, and fed an intense love that has lasted to
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