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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

I guess you wouldn't be reading this review if you weren't interested in, or at least curious about Kung Fu movies. If you have any interest at all in the style "Come Drink with Me" should be on your "must-see" list. When I first saw it, I didn't realize how old it was (1966), and as I watched it I assumed it was a later film because it is so sophisticated. The costumes, lighting, sets, story and in particular the cinematography are all top-notch. Yet it retains that blend of weirdness, cheesiness and badassery that makes me love this kind of movie, and which makes them so different from Hollywood movies.I don't have much of a technical understanding of cinematography and so I don't know the proper way to describe it, but I would just say that each shot is framed in an artistic way that makes it very pleasing to the eye. The whole movie just looks great. The story is more complex than most of the Kung Fu movies that I've seen (I've seen quite a few), and the characters and their development is more involved also. Cheng Pei-Pei is awesome in this role.One thing you should be aware of is that, probably because this is an older movie, the fight scenes are not as polished and choreographed as the ones that came along in the 70s and after. I'm not saying the fight scenes are bad by any means, in fact I suppose they are more realistic than most Kung Fu movies but they don't have the stylized "dance-like" fighting that most people come to love in these films. The movie also features more sword fighting and not so much hand-to-hand.The only kind of weird thing is that there is a scene toward the beginning where the main lady is supposed to be passing herself off as a man. I just can't believe that anyone would think she was a man in those scenes. I was confused when everyone kept "he" and "him" when talking about her, it took me a while to realize that she was supposed to be posing as a man. That's a minor quibble and it certainly doesn't detract from the movie at all; you have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit for these kind of movies, anyway!I know a lot of people that are really into movies but have never watched any Kung Fu films; when I recommend this genre to people this is always one of the movies I suggest. Highly recommended.

My score of 8 does not mean that the original COME DRINK WITH ME (DA ZUI XIA) deserves this score. This score is for the Genius Products DVD version. While on one hand I am very, very glad the film was not poorly dubbed into English but actually features a subtitled version, the titles are very, very bad. Oddly, the subbing appeared to get worse as the film progressed! I knew something was amiss when they kept referring to a female as 'he' and 'sir' but later in the film the subtitles often made even less sense--like the translation from Chinese to subtitles was being done by a poor computer program not a human being who truly understood the languages. Now this DVD is not all bad--at least the copy is as pristine as you can find--with a clean and crisp print. Thank goodness for something positive to say about the copy.As for the technical merits of the film, the martial arts action is not the best I've seen, but it is very, very good--and quite a bit better than the typical film of the genre. Most of the blows appear to actually connect and the sword action is very good as well. The people making the film actually knew kung fu and they are impressive to watch. This is NOT a film where blows obviously miss and there are lots of squashing celery and the typical slapping sounds for special effects.The story is pretty interesting and takes you by surprise here and there. The leader of a band of thieves is caught by the government and will be executed. However, the gang captures the son of the governor and plans on killing him unless they get their leader back in five days. In response, the government sends in a special agent who turns out to be the son's sister. She is extremely skilled and is planning on taking on the gang--not returning their evil leader. While this plot seems pretty straight-forward, there's much more to it. In the midst of all this wanders a beggar who is definitely much more than he appears to be. When the lady is injured, he steps forward to help and he turns out to be a much more potent fighter than anyone realized. While he does help her achieve justice, he also has another task at hand--to exact justice for the murder of his master.Overall, this is definitely one of the better films of the genre and is well worth seeing. However, if you can find a non-dubbed and non-Genius DVD (if that's possible), you may find the film is a bit better than an 8. I sure hope this is possible, as the film deserves a much better translation into English.

If you want to see the inspiration for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon this is it. I saw this after being opened up to wuxia (Chinese sword fight pics) by CTHD. Ang Lee was obviously inspired by Come Drink With Me. Remember the rooftop scene in CTHD?, the big bar brawl?, catching those little darts?, and the actress who played the Jade Fox (Cheng Pei Pei)? All are in Come Drink With Me. The story behind the movie is that Run Run Shaw of the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio wanted to make a Chinese version of a Japanese Samurai (Chanbara) movies. He hired a young, inexperienced, director now known to us as King Hu. The result was a movie that, for its time, was groundbreaking and it is still a lot of fun to watch today. Somebody PLEASE release a high quality DVD version though, because the only one I have found is AWFUL!

Even if this film goes way back in time (back to 1966) this film is very well shot indeed.And from what I have heard this was the film that kind of set the standard for future kung fu flix in this particular style. Flying ppl, big battles and beautiful action style.No need to really lay so much upon the story on what happens in it. as it can be read on the main page.. but I do wanna announce that if you wanna get this one on DVD you should look for the re-mastered version released/made by the Asian company Celestial Pictures/ IVL (Intercontinental Video Limited)They have done a great job in shaping up this film.. so ti more or less looks like it could have been produced today.Also comes with lots of Xtras like interviews with the cast and other fun stuff.Well worth having in your collection