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X-Ray Punch

posted 20 years ago by defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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I just watched this film - I've never really been into martial arts flicks but I loved the Kill Bill movies, so they inspired to check a few out, and this was one of them. I enjoyed the movie, but there was one bit when the car got dropped off the bridge and it landed, and you could clearly see an unclothed dummy behind the wheel, but then about a minute later, the movie completely redeemed itself and then some when it showed Chiba destroying someone in x-ray vision. That was so damn cool. I was just wondering if this technique's been used in any other movies? Cause for such a cool effect, it was used really briefly.

[–] Bitter_Almonds 20 years ago

Kill Bill movies sucked. All the fighting done on wires like in The Matrix (another retch-fest right there). F uck that s hit. I've seen a couple of other movies do that x-ray effect, but I can't think of their names right now. Just check out Riki-Oh. You don't need x-ray vision to see how ultra-cool some of this stuff can get: exploding heads, entrails flying everywhere, people jumping out of windows, punching through walls. It all makes one jaded to the Tarantino crap that's been coming out lately.

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[–] ZOMBIE-8 20 years ago

Ironically Riki-Oh (better known as Story of Ricky) had one x-ray punch shot midway through the film, and Romeo Must Die had three x-ray shots. While the film wasn't great, these are basically 21st century renditions of this very scene in The Street Fighter. The first in RMD is when Jet Li breaks a prison guard's arm. The second is when Li knocks an assassin into a stake which we see pierce their heart. The final, and most dramatic, is when Li side kicks the top of a villain's head (trying to avoid spoilers here!), and it cuts to an x-ray of the skull breaking open and the entire spinal cord shattering with it. Also, the uncut version of the Bruce Li film Soul Brothers of Kung Fu is said to have an x-ray scene as well, in which Bruce Li pierces a villain's chest with his finger, and we see the finger go inside and pierce the heart. Unfortunately the version I rented was cut, and the "alternate ending" that was supposed to be at the end of the tape was missing!

[–] scuba steve 20 years ago

There's another fake Bruce film called Bruce and Shoulin Kung Fu (maybe another title for the one reviously mentioned) Where Bruce xray punches this fella in the finale a fight between 2 men who fight as one.

[–] squidmodem 19 years ago

The X-ray punch was very creative. For the time it was made and budget avliable, it cant be beat! Is the 1$ Wal-mart version cut/edited in anyway?
Also i have not had a chance to rewatch this movie (only seen it once), But at the very start when they are going to Hang one of the main characters and he falls down, why do they try and save his life, I mean , they were going to hang him...
anyway, this movie is hella cool!

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[–] afeutz-1 19 years ago

because there was a lawyer

[–] SSuqui 18 years ago

To answer your first question, the $1 version of this wasn't cut in any way, shape, or form. In other words, it runs to 91 minutes (the original running time of this feature)!

[–] KarateMerman 19 years ago

If You want more of the X-ray stuff I defently Recomend Romeo Must Die, (Jet Li) Its a great movie.
Romeo Must Die Was the first movie I saw useing the x-ray stuff and I thought that was the first time, so you can amagion my suprize when I saw it in Street Fighter.

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[–] Bitter_Almonds 19 years ago

Hahah. Yeah. He said the same thing. Anyway, I'm wary of those Jet Li movies because there seems to be a high use of wires. Suddenly, it's not kung fu anymore, but wire fu. I know other martials movies employ their own tricks, but I find myself annoyed by Jet Li's stunt tricks the most. Still, I'm getting Romeo Must Die for the x-ray punch.

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[–] rsuriyop 19 years ago

The technique was also implemented in Tom yum goong. During the final battle where Tony Jaa fights the three hulking brutes, he severs someone's joints as shown through "x-ray vision."

The slow, unchanging progression of time: "... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ....." (etcetera)

[–] mikesurman105 19 years ago

There was a Bruce Le (note the spelling) film with Richard Harris co starring called Challege of the Tiger. There's a scene where Bruce side kicks a charging Bull and you see an Xray hit there...

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[–] mob_rules 17 years ago

I cought a few Tony Jaa movies recently and was very impressed with the "no-wire" action fighting. He is as versatile as Jackie Chan less the comic relief B.S. which I can't stand. In "The Protecter" I was very impressed with the insane arm breaking scene toward the end and the 5 minute fight scene as he is climbing the stares without cutting the camera scenes.

I would put Tony Jaa above Jet Li in recent movies. Everyone seems to be impressed with Romeo Must Die, but should check out some of Tony's movies.

[–] willwallace-1 17 years ago

i saw a jonathon ross interview with chiba and he said how much he loved the x-ray scene in the streetfighter when he saw it as a kid.

chiba said that that was HIS idea and was implemented because in screen fighting you can hit the neck down for real but lightly but never the face and head so this was a good alternative for a direct hit.

*beep* cool though, one of the reasons the trailer made me think " i really MUST see this film"

saw it today, not let down AWESOME

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[–] Cobra12 16 years ago

Does anyone have a gif or moving image of this?

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