Every Jet Li Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

1993's "Kung Fu Cult Master" is a zany fantasy-comedy-action movie with an over-the-top style and tons of magic and superpowered abilities like flight, flame manipulation, electrocuting jungle vines, and a hysterically laughing monk who rolls around on the surface of a giant boulder. The story is set during the Yuen Dynasty and follows many good and evil cults of martial artists as they all vie for control of a pair of golden swords said to contain the power to dominate all opponents.

Alongside Jet Li are many notable Hong Kong film industry regulars such as Sammo Hung, Collin Chou, and Francis Ng, amongst others. Although the movie didn't make too much of an impression upon its initial release, the story has made a major resurgence in recent years. The film's director, Jing Wong, returned nearly 30 years later to reboot the property with "New Kung Fu Cult Master" starring Donnie Yen, and a sequel, "New Kung Fu Cult Master 2," which both released in 2022.

Though it has a 72% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has no critic score, and many of the reviews published on "Kung Fu Cult Master" are not very positive. Joey O'Bryan wrote for The Austin Chronicle, "Director Wong Jing [...] is notorious for working without a finished script and, while it often charges his work with a kind of loony spontaneity, here it serves only to drive viewers into maddening fits of frustration, as they vainly attempt to comprehend a senseless story that the director is probably making up as he goes along." Love HK Film's review succinctly calls the film "fast, furious, frenetic, and fundamentally forgettable."