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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Often times I find old school kung fu movies that have terrible plot or bad fighting. If I can excuse the bad plot I can watch it for the fight scenes, but a movie that does a good job on both is a real gem. The movie goes into great detail about the fighting techniques involved. Even if it is fantastical like magic, it is nice to see that the film makers took that extra effort to design choreography around the mythology of the specific kung fu style. The master of the Iron armor certainly shows off his invulnerability by trading blows with his opponent. Chow's fancy footwork was fun to behold. Shen was also able to demonstrate his unique double spear tipped Tonfa. Instead of having 3-4 major action scenes, the movie is well paced with 6+ fights leading up to the finale. A good balance of plot and action keeps me interested in the movie as an action movie, while I can still appreciate the reason behind all the fighting.

In the prologue to THE INVINCIBLE ARMOR, we're told that "Iron Armor is the most mysterious of all kung fu techniques." The only flaw: there's ALWAYS one vulnerable point- "the breath gate." The Eagle Claw is another deadly technique. General Chow (John Liu) sees Hu Loong (Hoi) fight off several attackers and is impressed enough to introduce Loong to Mr. Lu, who's "looking for suitable warriors" to aid him in his political aims. During a friendly sparring match, Loong kills Lu and leaves Chow to be caught literally red-handed over the body. Chow escapes the authorities, being careful not to injure his pursuers. Shen Yu is summoned to capture Chow; Chow, meanwhile, uses his superior skills to fend off pretty much everyone he runs into (Liu is an excellent kicker, and some of the fight scenes are great because of this). He catches up to Hu, but Shen and Minister Cheng interfere and Hu escapes. Chow befriends a boy and his sister, the beautiful Shi Lan, and the boy teaches Chow the Iron Armor technique- and the Iron Finger technique, to overcome it. When Shen talks Chow into surrendering, Che Yuan shows up. He wants to behead Chow because "his head is easier to carry." (Makes sense to me...) When we finally see the robotic, stiff-legged advance of Minister Cheng (employing the Iron Armor technique), it's a genuinely scary moment: he actually LOOKS invincible. INVINCIBLE ARMOR is most definitely worth a look.

I saw this movie during the bus ride on a school fieldtrip, and couldn't stop enjoying myself. Don't get me wrong, this movie is a bad movie, but that is where it triumphs. The usual cheesiness of these kung fu films makes us wonder if people actually took them seriously sometime in the 1970s. Definately a film to be seen with a crowd, preferably under whichever influence you prefer, "Invincible Armour" contains all the non-stop action and unintentional laughs one would expect from a B-Kung Fu movie. The soundtrack is reminiscent of an early Nintendo Game and the English dubbing highlights the acting. "Invincible Armour" also has possibly one of the most side-splittingly funny (and abrupt) endings ever seen in its genre (including a great allegory which involves a pair of eggs and a fist).I recommend this movie for anyone looking for a light-hearted laugh and something to talk about the next day with their friends.

I searched hard on IMDb for this film since it is not primarily listed by it's English name: "Invincible Armor". I work at a video store and was in the mood for a kung-fu movie. I had only seen one kung-fu movie before (Shaolin vs. Lama) and it was pretty cool, so I picked up this one. It was great from the start. They're were some pretty cool training scenes for "eagle claw" and "iron armor" techniques, these scenes made for a great intro to the film. What I found to be the coolest thing of all is that some of the dialogue from the movie is sampled on one of the rap group "Wu-Tang Clan"'s albums. The finale is great too. There is a groin joke in the final fight that I won't reveal. Very funny! All in all a great king-fu flick.