Executioners of Death

EXECUTIONERS FROM SHAOLIN Release date: 1977 Alternate titles: Executioners of Death Director: Liu Chia-hui Starring: Chen Kuan-tai, Lo Lieh, Lily Li Plot: Picking up where MEN FROM THE MONASTERY left off, Hung Hsi-kuan (a role being revived once agan by Jet Li, who seems to want to play every character from Chinese history, ever), played by Chen Kuan-tai, escapes the carnage that ended that movies and trains to defeat the white-haired hermit (Lo Lieh). Hung has a son who also trains. Hung is killed, but not before discovering that the villain does have a weak point--the only problem being that the weak point floats around to different locations on his body. The job of revenge is left to Hung's son. Review: Where most films about Shaolin characters are more about Shaolin than people, Liu has put a lot of work into characters. Still, I personally find the movie a bit dull, and the final fight ends ridiculously, with Hung's son punching the hermit, then a freeze-frame, and a narrator going, "And eventually, he was victorious."