They Know Kung Fu

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2020)

I remember when this first came out. Everybody was talking about it, it dominated the discussions everywhere. Whether people understood it or not, people seemed to recognize the greatness of the existential cyberpunk kung fu mind bender.
I loved it then and now watching it again for the first time in years that love changed but not waned. The layers, the metaphors, the symbolism, everything in this is spot on. The action is beyond reproach. So much so that it heavily impacted countless other films that followed it. It was a game changer, no denying it.
Over twenty years later and this still absolutely holds up. There were a couple brief CGI moments that don't really look all that great today, but they don't detract from the movie and I'm not about to hold that against this.
This is a huge recommend to anyone that managed to not see it. I'm not as down on the sequels as a lot of people are, but they definitely aren't on the same level and you could really just watch the first one on its own if you wanted to.