Some films can pass the test of time but the dubbed version of FFoD can't.
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I had fun seeing this movie with an American audience but enjoyed it much more in Chinatown. Unfortunately, the movie studios saw that they enjoyed it so much that, bad dubbing and unnecessary violence became a kung fu flick formula. The action sequences blew the audience away. Most American audiences saw this kind of gore in a horror film not in an action film. As soon as the audience heard those strange British accents come from those Chinese actors the movie turned into a violent and gory cartoon. From the start, the movie made you laugh. The crowd was ethnic and quite energetic. I enjoyed it here too but for different reasons. On Times Square, this film was an action comedy.probably unintentionally. The audience buzz while leaving this film gives the final satisfaction to me. The mostly Chinese audience enjoyed this film immensely. The star, Lieh Lo, was a known actor in Chinese theaters. Every great kung fu film had wonderful, dastardly villains you wanted to see get their comeuppance and FFoD had them too. The video for new Five Finger Death Punch single Living The Dream shows exactly what is at stake. Rival school plots were not overused yet so the storyline seemed fresh. Chinatown theaters were showing violent kung fu films for years(1972's "Boxer From Shantung" beat them all in gore), so the action choreography & story were the main attraction. It was because of hearing the real voices of the actors(In Chinese) that made this movie more believable. In Chinatown, this film took on a more serious tone to the viewers. What a contrast this turned out to be.same film but different audiences. I also was fortunate enough to see the American premiere of "Five Fingers Of Death" on Times Square, NYC. "Five Fingers of Death" started the American kung-fu movie craze but I remember seeing it for the first time as "King Boxer" in Chinatown, NYC, without the bad dubbing and few Americans.
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