When I stumbled upon the 2016 Chinese Kung Fu movie "Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So", of course I took the time to sit down to watch it, as I do enjoy martial arts movies and Asian movies quite a lot. And usually the movies that include the drunken style of Kung Fu tends to be rather enjoyable.
However, turns out that this 2016 movie from director Jian Yong Guo wasn't one such movie. Sure, it did include the drunken style Kung Fu, but this was hardly an enjoyable movie. Why, you may ask? Well, because of the storyline, the acting and the dialogue.
The storyline and script was just almost as far from being interesting as it could possibly be. And the flow of the movie wasn't really an overly appealing one, as it was slow and tedious, taking forever to make little progress. And it didn't really help that the characters were like cardboard cut outs with little or no distinctive personalities.
As for the acting in the movie, well it was stunted and mediocre for the most parts, which was a factor that the movie suffered terribly from. And with the atrocious dialogue that the writer had mustered, then the actors were fighting and losing an uphill battle.
It should be said that the props and costumes were actually good, and the martial arts scenes were also good enough. But these things were hardly enough to make up for all the shortcomings of the movie.
I am rating the movie a mere three out of ten stars. I managed to endure just a little more than one hour of this ordeal, and I have zero interest in returning to finish the rest of the movie, because it just failed to be entertaining. I only endured a whole hour because I wanted to give the movie a fair chance and hoped it would eventually pick up its pacing.
