Meister aller Klassen 2 (1978)

Meister aller Klassen 2: Directed by Wei Lo. With Jackie Chan, Chih-Ping Chiang, Hsiu-yi Fang, Hong Hsu. A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.

“This movie was shot back to back with Dragon Fist, and the similarities shows. They both take place at Shaolin temple, and Jackie is a student. This one has more comedic flavor to it. Lo Wei directs this movie as well.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBook of Seven Fist has been stolen from Shaolin temple. Only Five Star fist can win over the Seven Fist, but this technique has been lost. Conveniently, the spirits of the Five Star travels to earth and shows Yi-Lang (Jackie Chan) where the lost book is located. They also give private lessons to Yu-Lang. Killing starts to happen around the temple with Seven Fist technique. It turns out that a man kept in the dungeon Wei-Wu is the culprit who stole the book, and doing the killing. He feels that his Seven Fist style is invincible. Yu-Lang volunteers to leave the temple to settle the score with Wei-Wu. But the real culprit turns out to be a surprising person, and more unexpected things happen with the spirits during the battle.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e1978 must have been a good year for Jackie Chan, as he made slew of good movies including his early master piece the u0026quot;Drunken Masteru0026quot;. While this movie is no masterpiece, Jackie Chan looks so good in his role as the Shaolin student. The movie came out after the Dragon Fist, and the Drunken Master, and this movie almost looks like a cross between the two. Thereu0026#39;s lots of comedy, but Jackieu0026#39;s kung fu looks so sharp and stylish.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTo be perfectly honest, I couldnu0026#39;t enjoy some of the comedic parts of this movie. Problem with Lo Weiu0026#39;s directing style is that he always portrays supporting cast as low class or no class idiots. He might feel that this is a necessary comedic touch to entertain the audience, but this in my opinion has kept the status of Hong Kong movie low for years. This became obvious when younger directors like Jackie Chan came along and started to direct movies with quality comical touch. Now Hong Kong is considered to produce top notch movies, second perhaps only to Hollywood.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie is better than average kung fu movie from the same era. Itu0026#39;s a charming movie with good kung fu action mixed in.”