Enter the Invincible Hero: Three Villains

While I certainly esteem the charismatic leading man, a Dragon Lee movie is only as good as its villains and Enter the Invincible Hero has three and what a wild trio they are. A normal martial arts flick would be happy enough with a bad guy like Master Pang (Casanova Wong), the criminal mastermind who wears a white glove over his more murderous hand and whose superstrength can be undone by way of a curious hole in his foot. If that last bit sounds a tad outlandish, consider his even more wicked assistant who has a blinking necklace that supplies him extra power and an outie belly button that's the Achilles' heel of his seven chakras. Yet neither of these malefactors holds a candle to the film's true star: an eyepatched hunchback who uses his hump as a lethal weapon in mano a mano combat. Like a vagabond Richard III, this troll-like leader of the village bandits effuses a contagious glee as he engages in acrobatic moves that range from impossibly high flips to rib crushing body slams.

As for our beloved Dragon, he's up to his usual antics — winning the movie's one pretty girl (who he actually kisses!), outfighting whole posses of evildoers, and being driven to more impassioned fighting by the taste of his own blood (and then amplified from some barechested flexing). You never doubt for a moment that this Korean hunk will emerge victorious but with three worthy opponents, it's fun to see him wipe his nose with his thumb once more (a la Bruce Lee) as he takes on the next man. He won't save everyone in the village but he'll likely save the love interest... and himself.