Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (點止功夫咁簡單) is a 1978 film out of Hong Kong. The movie stars Jackie Chan in his third "Kung Fu Comedy" film.
The movie credits are actually the highlight of the film for me. It goes about 10 minutes and is classic Shaw Bros. type movie intro. A guy comes out and demostrates his skills. But instead of being all serious and hard like other classic kung fu films, Jackie goes on a spoof. Jackie takes many of the kung fu mythos of the time and spoofs them. I was drawn in and was immediately trying to figure the film or genres it was making fun of. Than the movie started. Jackie plays a thief that's just trying to get buy. Somehow he finds favor with the begger sect head and starts to learn kung fu from him. Jackie gets in with a delivery service clan and they take people out.
This was not a good movie. Even for 1978, I can't believe it would have been thought of as a good movie. The final fight took 10 minutes! Jackie and this one guy fought for freaking 10 minutes at the end of the film. Dude!
No good YouTube clips or a trailer.
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