Shaolin vs. Evil Dead - Ultimate Power

I was pleasantly surprised the vampirical look on the DVD cover was not run into the ground with mindless neckbiting. Definate story told from beginning to end with a bit more meat than can be usual for martial arts films. I'll have to watch it a second time to fully capture all the nuance. The jumping zombies are a bit much but different enough from the normal leg dragging gouls we are used to that it seemed to work okay. I'm sure this is a movie I will rewatch from time to time.

Like many of the other reviewers I wondered what the deal was with the ending of this movie. It was an abrupt ending leaving me feeling rather shafted. So I got online to figure it out. This movie is actually called "Demon World". You can get the full version, however unless you speak or can read Chinese it probably won't be of much help to you (seeing as it doesn't even have English subs). This movie is awesome!!! I love it!!! I am annoyed that this isn't the full movie, but on the bright side it gives me something to look forward to. I understand they are milking this film for all it is worth and I will buy the sequel. I wish the Chinese version had English subtitles!!! Oh well, I can wait. All in all this movie is really good and for any Gorden Liu fan it is a must!!!

Title says it all really. This film is more a prequel than a sequel, with what should have been the finale of the first film rather awkwardly tacked on to the last 10 minutes. With some of the continuity from that film to this being really really off, as well as the general feel of the film. While the first movie was all about goofy entertaining action this one tries to make you genuinely care about the relationship of the two main characters. And it really doesn't succeed as you already know them from less serious material, resulting in a jarring change of tone.Poorly paced and with not half the energy and action of the first film I'd say one might be able to enjoy this if they watched it before the first, stopped when the transition from prequel-to-end-of-first-film starts (about 15 minutes before the end) then watched the first movie and finally finished this. But honestly I'd say just skip this one, it is at most a rental.

Not real sure if this was a prequel or a sequel. Gordon Liu is billedas the star and he is not in it very much. If you like the hopping vampire films you might enjoy this.

Movie was good, but it did not link very well to the first part. Still good to watch. Worth buying.

love it

Under DVD options one is the sequel, another is the first one. They need to fix this.Anyways, I fast forwarded most of Ultimate Power since no one could be bothered to dub it like they did the first one. If I want to read I'll get a book. I give the first one three stars. It was a bit corny but I liked it. The sequel gets 0 stars because of the lack of an English dub.

This has all you might expect from a mystical Hong Kong kung fu movie: hopping vampires, big name stars who have the skills to pull off all the spectacular moves you'd expect in a film like this, humour (both earthy and slapstick), good CGI, well done makeup and special effects, romance, weirdness and yes the much hyped exploding zombie midget (granted I have seen far better exploding zombies but I don't think many people have seen an exploding zombie midget so perhaps I don't have anything to compare it with). The film builds, with effective changes of pace, towards an impressive grand finale and then ends.Abruptly.And then while you are looking to see if there is a secret button on your DVD remote labelled "play me the rest of the goddamn movie!!!" the credits roll.And to add insult to injury alongside the credits we get silent snippets of the rest of the movie!!And that all looks better than anything we have yet seen!!!!!!So what is going on? Well the helpful folks at the US distributors (Tai Seng) have explained it to me. Apparently the producer's plan is to release the film in two parts in the same way Kill Bill was. However, it just doesn't really work as a standalone film (the first part is good but not that good) and just stopping the film half way through with no warning or explanation is quite frankly bizarre and ruins the whole thing.So what do we recommend? Its tricky as this film does feel like it was shaping up to be a great movie but the ending is so frustrating I worry that it might have spoiled the whole thing for me. So with hindsight I'd much rather have waited for the second half and then watched them both in one (presumably three hour) sitting and probably had a great time but if I'd read a review here advising this would I have taken its advice? I can't say but thats what I'd recommend you do and even if you don't follow the advice at least forewarned is forearmed. ;)Marks out of 5? Impossible to say really - we'll really only know when the second one comes out. I've given it a 3 because it has lots of promise but......----Emperor - Revenant Magazine co-founder/editor

Unless you plan to watch "Shaolin vs. Dead: Ultimate Power" which is near impossible to find, and when you do it's ridiculously expensive, then don't bother to buy this as it'll just be a frustrating experience being only the first half of the movie.

Do not watch this film, it is horrible and made no sense, the action is rubbish too. I gave my copy away to the charity store.

So... they run out of the room going "Look out, it's going to blow!' then you get the credits... showing what comes next... where's part II?"Shaolin vs. Evil Dead: Ultimate Power" is NOT part two, three or four maybe. It'd be pretty good otherwise.

This is just not my kind of film, too weird... shipping was fast and item arrived in great condition.