RAIDERS OF BUDDHIST KUNG FU is another very poor quality film from director Godfrey Ho, who seems to have taken an old-fashioned South Korean martial arts movie and spliced in his own footage featuring Gordon Liu in a role that amounts to little more than a brief cameo as a villain who goes around looking brooding. The whole production is nonsensical and largely dull, featuring a general lack of coherence and entertainment value for the fans.A lot of films made during this era seem to feature a young guy dressed up as an old master, Simon Yuen style, complete with a bedraggled grey wig, and this movie is no exception. Mike Wong is the hero of the piece, injured by villains but recovering and gunning for revenge. The film is one of those that features inserted shots of a circling hawk replaced by a very obvious dummy for the scenes in which it attacks. This is virtually unintelligible garbage.

This film has everything you need for a hilarious night indoors with your friends.Poor film quality? Cringe-worthy Kung-fu choreography? Hilarious dubbing? Awkward and disjointed dialogue? Cameraman incapable of keeping the camera still or focused on the right characters? Cliché characters including samurai and plucky child side-kick? Plucky child side-kick has a dead bird on his shoulder which is actually meant to be a live pet? Random white guy with an afro appears from a bush in the middle of a fight scene and joins in? Absolutely ridiculous and memorable ending? All of these aforementioned qualities, and more, are all available for your viewing pleasure throughout the course of this movie.To be sincere for a moment, this is an absolutely appalling film which is barely worthy of a single star. As soon as it begins, one can hardly believe that this was a genuine attempt at a serious movie. You can only reason that films back in 1980s had especially low standards. But if you do not take it seriously and simply relish the examples of pure incompetence both on the part of the actors and director, this film will have the entire room roaring with laughter.Essential viewing.8/10 - A film that simply surpasses the level of "Terrible" and transcends into the realm of "Beautiful" (marked down from 10. Regardless of how funny it is, points must be deducted simply because of how terrible it is)

The unwary viewer must endure nearly an hour of an otherwise unintelligible story, which may or may not involve long-lost brothers, cruel kung fu teachers and corrupt leaders, waiting for Gordon Liu, cast as a shiftless and evil royal, to get up from his fancy dias and show the other players a thing or two about martial arts. When the script finally does get around to putting Gordon on his feet, in swoops that stupid bird -- apparently the other member of the cast with any significant athletic ability. For the die-hard collector only -- and then perhaps best used to prop doors or discipline household pets.

Well I'd have to say that I do own this film and I only like the ending. The movie is boring and slow but the final fight is so funny. Lets just say that if the fake bird didn't attack the main evil guy this movie would be a 0 out of 10. The bird though makes it a 3. If you are truly bored or want something terrible to watch rent this and fast forward to the final battle.