General Hou's Chicken: Kung Fu Export Shaolin Tows the Party Line

It is also historically inaccurate (suits the Party Line). The real destroyer of the monastery was a Chinese warlord (who would actually make an enjoyable character for a historical film!) But its nothing new, real history is a ways more entertaining than historical films...

I don't think I've ever seen a film before where "foreigners", without any given nationality, are so blatantly evil. I don't know how far to WWII times war propaganda I'd have to dig to find equaling treasures. This overt hatred of "foreigners" showed not only in the white villains with fake beards, but also in the costumes and choice of weaponry - Tse wore western-type clothing and used guns (and in one scene which was a perfect example of violent aestheticism, bayonets).

Pinkerton's interpretation belies a shallow, elementary, and baseless characterization of both Buddhist principles and Chinese politics. This film was a powerful allegorical story about the interdependence of karma, the purpose of compassion as a global society, the opportunity for every person to awaken if they can learn to take mutual responsibility and confront whatever happens. I have rarely felt so much peace, and understood its purpose, in so much violence. tse's acting and dress were melodramatically bad (i wanted to see him defeated on the basis of his bad haircut alone) -- but that was not the point of the movie.

The Democrat party line, apparently.

Talking about towing a party line. The review above perpetuates commits that same sin he accuses the film of.