I was really disappointed with the end product, to be honest. I mean, there was some good stuff: the choreography and the cgi were both very impressive and the music was absolutely killer all the way through but outside of that I felt most of the rest of it was pretty weak.
The ideas were fun but the script let them down. No-one with any experience in comedy came within 500 miles of the writer so the so-bad-they're-good one liners and puns instead became simply so-bad-they're-bad. References are used as a core part of the humour, which is never a good sign, and the bits that weren't references were snippets of internet-friendly "lol random" humour (see Triceracop for a perfect example of that) which I don't find funny in the slightest.
While there's a certain level of B-movie charm that comes from actors taking a daft film seriously and/or hamming up lines, if the works of Tarantino or genre masterpieces like Black Dynamite have taught us anything it's that these work even better when actually good actors are doing it, so a little investment into actors who can act would've helped Kung Fury immensely.
Thanks to the 30 minute runtime, the pacing was all over the place and the film turned into a series of trailer shots loosely strung together that made the whole thing feel simultaneously too short and too long as the actors drawled through a poorly-written script and stared blankly either straight into camera or just off-center into the distance while plot events whirled past them from one barely-connected action setpiece to the next.
While the final fight was incredibly well-shot (I love it when fights are filmed with one long uninterrupted shot, like in Oldboy or that one episode of Netflix's Daredevil) the fact that there was no big showdown with the Kung Fuhrer was pretty anticlimactic to say the least. Oh and they still had the balls to drop a sequel hook at the end.
Yeah... Kung Fury was super disappointing. Shame, it really looked like it was going to be fun.
