ykhqureshi
I have watched this movie first time when I was just 10-11 years old, my father bought me video cassettes, pure 80s n 90s stuff, and I found this martial art movie in the box and then watched it for many times. I forgot it's title but had SEVEN, part of movies title, saved some in my memory, Google helped and watched it again last night to share my childhood memories with my wife. She got bored of weak story line and awful dubbing and somehow adult comedy. The only thing we liked the most is Chai-Ming Chang, wonder where she is now. Such a cutie.
ckormos1
Seven children, all martial arts experts, are running loose unsupervised in Hong Kong. They check into a hotel then go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant. They all order steak and then act like they never saw a steak before. There is also a diamond transaction going on at this restaurant. Eventually one of the kids ends up in possession of the diamond and all the troubles associated with it.This is a nonsense comedy for lack of a more precise category. Nonsense comedy can be defined by humor derived from situations that are unlikely, impossible or ridiculous. In this movie the most impossible situation is seven children running around without adult supervision. Yet, how times have changed, because in 1986 I doubt that was even out of the ordinary in that culture.Whenever I review a comedy I am always careful to say "I found it funny" rather than something like "This movie is funny". What makes one person laugh can cause no reaction in the next person and be offensive to the following person. Only the transvestite scene made me laugh out loud and I am sure it also offended others.I did like the action even though every fight was essentially the same. These kids had amazing martial arts and acrobatic skills. I was surprised to find they all had few other acting roles beyond this one movie.
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People looking at the cover image will think this is a kids film; it most definitely is not. It is a bitingly funny send up of all those painfully bad children's action adventure films and series from the 1970's and early 1980's. Everything, from BMX Bikers, to the Red Hand Gang and the Secret Seven, catches it where it hurts. I don't think any of the classics I remember come off unhurt. There's even a spot on assault on Bugsy Malone and a slew of jokes about bad dubbing. The acting is of the highest class (in that it is clearly deliberately dreadful), as is the script and direction. The film is Hong Kong based, so the cast speak fluent English, but are dubbing themselves, badly! Watch and enjoy, for it is hilarious, but it is violent, and well deserves its UK 15 certificate.
gridoon2018
Seven kids, all martial arts masters, come into possession of a real diamond and defeat truckloads of bad guys who want it for themselves. The premise is obviously cheesy, but the movie does not pretend to be "realistic" (at one point, two of the bad guys fall from the window of a hotel's top floor all the way to the ground below and land safely on their two feet!), and amid all the exaggerated slapstick there are moments of prime 80's Hong Kong action choreography, fast-paced and hard-hitting. The kids are probably all talented martial arts students, and they're not spared from taking some bumps (especially at the end, when they go against the last two remaining henchmen). Fortunately for them, they are helped along by a terrific grown-up female fighter, played by a pretty actress whose name I wish I knew (she's not Elsa Yeung, is she?). As characters the 7 kids are largely indistinguishable, except for the one delightful girl who kicks just as much butt as the boys, if not more. Some comedic parts can be hard to sit through, but the action scenes are worth it. Besides, if you ever get bored you can occupy yourself by trying to count how many stolen pieces of music you can hear (from "Halloween" to "Spartacus"!). **1/2 out of 4.