'Kung Fu' was one of the biggest TV programmes of the 1970s on both sides of the Atlantic and has continuing cult status, thanks in part to the appearance of its headliner David Carradine in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Those wishing to find out what the appeal is should avoid this film, however. So too should anyone but nurturing fond adolescence memories of the series, unless they deficiency their illusions cruelly shattered.
Made 11 years after the TV series ended, the film follows the same prime rubric. Kwai Chang Caine, a half-American, half-Chinese Shaolin brother wanders throughout pale hamlet America righting wrongs after being exiled from his homeland in compensation destruction the prince who murdered his own guru, the blind Masterly Po.
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