WHO’S IN IT? The unlikely brainchild of Wu Tang Clan head honcho RZA, this Wild West-meets-Oriental East homage to kung-fu classics also sees Russell Crowe as a deranged, knife-wielding, opium-
addicted British agent provocateur, Lucy Liu as a ninja madam, WWE thug David Bautista as a demonically-enhanced killer, plus a host of Asian martial arts stars.


THE GIST: Set in a mythical mid-1880s landscape, an escaped slave hammers out a crust as a gifted blacksmith, making weapons for warring clans. But when an evil warlord tries to steal a cache of gold, thereby threatening to destabilise the region’s peace, an English spy is dispatched to set things right.

ZOO’s VERDICT: The haircuts are like something out of a bad Japanese metal band, but Rusty’s turn as the hedonistic Jack Knife is piss-funny. With gravity-defying, kick-arse kung-foolery, massive explosions of gore and dodgy one-liners, it’s dumb fun even if RZA’s directing (and acting) skills are patchy at best. Still, if you dig your old-school martial arts flicks, you’ll rate this. Kung-Wu, baby!

6/10



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