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The Bare-Footed Kid

The Bare-Footed Kid

1993
Drama
Action
1h 30m
A poor young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father, a manager at a dyeing workshop who is trained in Kung-Fu but has retired form the world of martial arts. The dye shop is owned by a kind woman who is being pressured by a local strongman who is trying to steal her family secrets for his own workshop. When the workshop is burnt down the barefoot kid decides to fight back using his impressive kung-fu skills, but just invites further trouble. (imdb)
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The Bare-Footed Kid

1993
Drama
Action
1h 30m
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Avg Percentile 51.26% from 28 total ratings

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Rated 26 May 2019
70
63rd
A country bumpkin with crazy martial arts skills comes to a big city to work in a dye factory, and gets involved when a rival dye maker tries to steal the secrets of the owner. A solid early 90's wire fu extravaganza from Shaw Brothers featuring Ti Lung, Aaron Kwok as the titular Kid and Maggie Cheung at peak hotness. For a movie that sets up fairly innocently and relies on a lot of comedy to carry the run time, it ends up in a bloody apocalypse of mass murder. Not too shabby.
Rated 13 Aug 2020
65
61st
Unbelievably convoluted but somehow tender in every character arc, this martial arts comedy feels both uneven and fresh -- it starts light, admits a great number of twists (kid works for the dyeing workshop full of ancient secrets, gets invited by powerful men because of his skills, pays back with his life try to redeem himself for the friends he could not save) and finds home with bloody, fun and beautifully coreographed action. To's raw, unpolished, frenzy, nearly abstract action filmmaking.
Rated 16 Sep 2018
70
76th
good movie
Rated 15 Aug 2021
70
19th
Viewed August 12, 2021. The most impressive thing about the film is its gradual shift from light-hearted comedy into bloody violence, including an unexpectedly downbeat ending. All of the action scenes are great, but Aaron Kwok leaves something to be desired in the lead role - neither funny enough in the film's first half or intense enough in its second, his performance doesn't quite match up with the film's narrative arc.
Rated 20 Jul 2022
6
79th
Personal note: raise to 7?
Rated 08 Nov 2022
50
34th
I didn't like Aaron Kwok's character or acting in this. The film is very uneven and doesn't really work most of the time. Some of the comedy lands but most of it doesn't. The drama is curtailed and lacking and most of the characters lacked depth. The fights aren't very well done and it felt like I was watching a sloppy mess. Maggie Cheung and Paul Chun did the best they could with the little they were giving.

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