Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

BA_Harrison I've seen a lot of films in my time that don't make an awful lot of sense, but very few have left me quite as confused as The Evil Cult, a crazy wuxia martial arts flick starring Jet Li (plus a host of other genre stars). Part of the problem would undoubtedly be down to the awful subtitles on my DVD (it said they were English on the box, but I'm not so sure), but even if they had been perfect, I have no doubts that I still wouldn't have had a clue what was going on.Jet plays Mo Kei, a young man out to get revenge on those responsible for his parents' deaths. And that's about all I can tell you regarding the plot: there's so much waffle about different warring factions and powerful sects that it all becomes extremely difficult to follow, and even harder to try and recount. So I'm not going to bother.What I can tell you, however, is that this film features some pretty mad scenes that should please those who enjoy crazy Asian martial arts cinema: Mo Kei's father commits suicide by making his own heart explode from his chest; Mo Kei learns magical kung fu from a monk who is embedded in a huge, rotating, flying boulder; horses are skewered by drills that emerge from under the ground; there is a subterranean battle that results in severed body parts being strewn everywhere; and some of the characters battle with what looks like fire-extinguishers hidden up their sleeves!! And these are only the bits that I can remember.Also, there is the usual quota of flying kung fu (loads of wire work: some good, some lousy); lots of characters with silly hairstyles and huge eyebrows, and some cute women (including HK hotties Chingamy Yau and Gigi Lai).If incomprehensible wire-fu wuxia is your thing and you love films such as 'New Dragon Inn' and 'Swordsman', then you'll probably love this film, but as much as I appreciated the silliness of the whole thing, I just didn't find it that enjoyable overall.

redshadow76 This is by far the craziest, wackiest Kung-Fu movie I've ever seen. The plot flies by at the beginning with a short narrative and then you see people going crazy on a great race to the "golden Sowrd" or whatever it is to be the supreme martial artist. This movie is perfect for those with attention deficit disorder, it moves at a super quick pace, with crazy fighting. When Jet Li acquires the "Solar Stance" things get really weird...with Jet Li flying over armies of monks shooting fireballs and flipping around. If you want a good story watch CTHD or Hero, but if you want crazy martial artists flipping around shooting fireballs and lighting bolts while yelling "Special Magical Stance!" pick this one up! Best viewed while consuming alcoholic beverages. 10/10

ethanhill Some of the comments I see disgust me. If you think this movie is horrible, you need to actually see some really bad movies before you waste everyone's time writing crap. If you see this, get the "Kung Fu Cult/Colt Master" version, not the "Lord of the Wu Tang" version. This is a pretty light-hearted movie. Good action, lots of wire work, and some funny characters and subtitles. It has a lot of characters, so it's tough to keep straight who is who. But the movie's good enough to watch at least a few times, so it gets better with each viewing. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes the newer style martial arts movies and has an imagination.

ballazrus Surely this is a confusing movie with the numerous characters to remember and nonetheless the over use of wires for fighting scenes, but that's what a typical old school chinese kung fu soap opera is. They are usually in the type of a series (ranging from 20 to 60 hours long) and they tried to squeeze it all into 100 min film roll. But enough of that.For those who complain about the dialogue or subtitles have to suit themselves. First off, this movie was made in China, its not here to satisfy everybody so if you are not familiar with cantonese then don't watch the movie in the first place, secondly the translations isn't always accurate so do not assume that the dialogue follows as the subtitles brings to you. In fact the language is an old fashioned, polite chinese language thus very sophisticated rather than the translation into english. The movie, I'd say is somewhere in between an 8 and a 7 considering its poor ending (why did they end it like that? doesn't make sense, should make a prequel, but that's not happening now after almost a decade) this isn't really a jet li kind of a movie so if you are into jet li's Fist of Legend, Twin Warriors, Once upon a time.., do NOT even bother watching this because the fighting style is definitly not the same, as mentioned this is one of those typical old fashion movies where they fly and shoot fireballs and jump 100 ft up in the air. Moreover the plot wasn't all too sophisticated considering they had to get to the point quick since its only 100 min to make it in such a movie. For other comments about the shaolin monks and stuff, how they are corrupted, well i dunno if its true but as in Iron Monkey the shaolin temple was corrupted by the government and this could be another case of itall in all this movie is a clash of modern and old school martial arts because of the wires used in fighting scenes but also have great modern fighting like the fight between Jet Li and the Monk (when jet li encounters his grandfather for the first time) the movie delivers a decent martial arts and plot line so i'd say this is a must see for those who enjoy both chinese soap opera fighting and modern martial arts of jet li