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Excellent plot, excellent film
this film is a classic. the plot is good and the kung fu is inventive.
I starts off with the intro about a dying master who tells his last pupil of the venom styles he taught. The centipede style is very fast and agile, this is my fave. The snake style, (which looks really strange and isn't the snake style used in real kung fu) is fast and nimble, the scorpion uses his legs like scorpion pincers. The lizard can climb walls, (this is the worst part of the film) and the toad can resist any weapon peircing his skin (this is the secnd worst part of the film).
The last pupil goes to check on these five masters becasue the teacher was scared they might target an old school mate and steal his money.
shortly after Yan tieh arrives in the town where they are all living, Tang Sao Quai (Centipede) and Wei Pai (Snake) kill an entire family and wreck the house looking for the money. Then Ma (Scorpion) sneaks in after them and steals the map for the money that they didn't find.
The murder is reported to the court and the judge orders his two police officers Ho Yun Sin (Lizard) and Ma (Scorpion)to capture the killers. Ho meets up with Lie Ho (toad) and they capture the centipede for the murder.
However the snake and scorpion bribe the judge to frame the toad for the killing and they everntually, after an amazing fight scene between Wei Pai and Lo Mang kill the toad and pretend he committed suicide.
The Lizard was away during all this and when he comes back he is outraged. The two witnesses Lin Quan and Won Far have been killed by the centipede and snake so Yan Tieh teams up with the lizard to kill the two.

In an amazing end fight scene, the scorpion kills the snake and the snake kills the scorpion and the Lizard and Yan Tieh kill the centipede.

So the good guys win after all.
It took me a few goes to actually understand the plot but it was worth it. Five stars!

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Excellent flick. Excellent pace.
This one is a simple story that can get confusing, but has just the right stuff to keep the audience on track. Instead of a revenge theme like we so commonly see in the kung-fu flicks. Not that revenge themes are bad but it gives us a new taste to a different type of film.

Basically, a master has taught his pupils 5 deadly arts of Kung-fu all of which fit the the title 5 deadly venoms because the styles mimic animals that are poisonous. The centipede, snake, toad, lizard, scorpion. Hence the name "poison clan". The master teaches all of these to pupils at different times and is only explained by the master as a sort of flashback but more of a background builder. Each pupil mastered a specific style within the clan but do not know anything besides that style. However, they know their own style very well. Each style has it's own weaknesses but if one can know how to do them all they essetially complement each other and then one can have no weaknesses. The master is telling this story to his pupil Yan Tieh who actually has a small role in the film even though his role is rather important because it actually sets things in motion. The reason is the master has taught all of the tecniques to Yan but he doesnt know anyone technique very well and therefore he can be easily beaten by anyone of the 5 previous pupils. His mission is to check up on the 5 pupils to see if they are doing good deeds with their skills. As the story unfolds there are 2 who are obviously bad and are after a treasure and killing people left and right. Only they screw up and use their skills and leave death marks of special kung-fu on the people they killed. PLus to add to all the fun some innocent bystander witness thee murders. 2 others are less noticeable but are good and one later reveals himself who is actually an officer of the law (but you kind of figure this out because he get the lead role in the film). The officer hides himself by using the Toad who is his friend to help caputure the bad guys which are centipede style and later the snake who actually has a feels sorry for his murders and centipde who could careless and wants to keep using his skills to kill people for money and status. They succeed and a chain of events leads to an ultimate battle at the end because the scorpion actually finds the map to the treasure and later reveals himself as the wild card of the stack and plots to kill all of the clan members so he can be the most powerful and have all the gold. Yan teams up with the officer who has the lizard skills and teaches Yan his style. The toad is tortured to death because Snake and Centipede styles are behind the whole thing and have semi-control over the governing body.

Toad: strengths are iron skin style (it does exist in real life but well over dramatic in the movie of course). The iron skin does not allow weapons and hand to hand combat strikes to cause damage to the person who trained toad style. His weakness is his temples.

Lizard: Strengths are able to do wall kung-fu. Able to strike like a lizard while standing on the wall.

Centipede: Speed of attack is best of all the techniques and rest of the styles.

Snake: It's awkward floor (fighting while on the ground) and hand speed and cunning is its strengths.

Scorpion: Able to smash objects with great efficiency. The powerhouse of the techniques.

You can tell putting all these together makes you basically invincible.

The wall-to-wall action makes the pace of the film fast and furious. The unique kung-fu is fun to watch and the coreography is brilliant. The best thing is the actors are very talented and very fast with their fighting. Everyhing here looks very well done.

Acting: B
Actor Performance: A+
Action: A+
Coreography: A+
Entertaning value: A+
Replay value: A+
Storyline: A-
Directing: A

Overall: A

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One of my favourites
While I can't comment on the quality of these prints, this movie has been one of my all-time favorites. I used the Scorpion style on a bully during a middle school basketball game. While I didn't hit him, the fact that I could do the rapid palm smashes near his face spooked him so he stopped bothering me. Funny but true story. Thank you Scorpion !