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Savior Of The Soul

  Country : Hong Kong
Year: 1991
Genre: Swordplay / Fantasy
Format: DVD
Running Time: 1H38
Distributor: Universe Laser & Video CO.
Date reviewed: 03/25/2000
   
Producer: David Lai, Chan Pui Wah
Director: David Lai, Corey Yen

Cast:
Anita Mui, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Carina Lau, Josephine Siao, Kenny Bee, Corey Yen, Gloria Yip

 


Story: A villain called Silver Fox must hunt down a lady called May, she caused his master to go blind and it was his last wish to finally have revenge. May is a city soldier along with Ching and Yin Sheng, Ching is in love with her. While waiting for Yin Sheng's sister Silver Fox makes his attack, they manage to make him flee but Yin Sheng looses his life in the process. May goes into hiding and to make sure Ching does not follow her, she says she was going to marry Yin Sheng. A years passes till Ching finds out where May is but Silver Fox finds out too, now they must defeat him or be destroyed.

Review: This is a fantasy swordplay movie based in modern times which sets it aside from most other swordplay movies. Along with swords and special powers you have guns adding a different feel. It is hard to situate the time or location where the movie is taking place. There are many situations where there is information lacking in the film and for that reason we believe this film might be based on a comic book, manga or something like that. Because if the audience who are familiar of where it is coming from would know the answer missing info in the film. The story is very strangely put together, there is large gaps between scenes that makes you wonder but near the end it all makes sense. In essence it is a tale of revenge and lost love.

There characters were without personality, some of them were just plain annoying like May's sister. The only interesting looking character is Silver Fox as he is a powerful villain. Ching reminded us of City Hunter as for Yin Sheng well he gets wasted right in the beginning. They weren't bad actors or anything but did not have any special or interesting about them.

Action is the only thing going for this movie. The fight are decent and keep on getting better till the middle of the film (the big fight between Silver Fox and Ching) after that it goes downwards as cheesy effects become more dominant. The best fight in the movie was the one in the middle, the swordplay was very nice. Traditionally in Kung Fu and Swordplay movies the best fight is always saved for last, that was not the case in this movie. At the end of the movie we were disappointed by the ending, but there is a sequel so the story might continue there but we don't know.

The subtitles were excellent, but what else can you expect with a DVD. This movie could have been done much better, maybe it had a low budget and was not able to fulfill its potential. Its a decent action movie but don't expect anything special. Its not a movie you'll watch several times but you never know, this movie might appeal to certain people but not to us.

DVD [ NTSC, All Region ] :


The widescreen image quality was excellent, and the Dolby Digital Mono sound was not that bad too. For the extra you have a filmographies and 3 trailers (A Moment of Romance II, Wonder Seven and The Last Blood).

Reviewed by Peter Zsurka


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