Kung Fury (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: David Sandberg
	Actors:  David Sandberg, Jorma Taccone, Steven Chew
	Country: S
	Genre: Action, SF, Fantasy, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 29.07.2016, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: Kung Fury (Sandberg) is a cop using his powers to kick ass in the 80's until an old super-villain re-appears.
Review: This ultra fan movie emerged from the mind of the Swedish David Sandberg who got it funded on Internet (to a level even higher than his expectations) after showing a very promising trailer he made for 5000 dollars only. Kung Fury lasts 31 minutes and the best way for me to describe what it is about is to show it here as the movie is freely available for streaming, an advantage of crowd-funding in that case! I have already watched it twice and find it hilarious every time, finding new details to laugh at. It is an extreme example of parodic Fan movies referencing to a past era and/or a specific genre, a bit like Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, Black Dynamite or Iron Sky. And it contains everything to please amateurs of such Genre movies like me. It is set in the 80's (well, the beginning at least) and its visual quality was deteriorated to look like you are playing an old VHS of that period. The colors, dialogs and music are also very dated on purpose. I find it very impressive that it was all done with only a few actors in a front of a green screen. I can try to list some of the references I found in this movie but there are probably many more: you get dinosaurs, Conan-style barbarian ages (with machine gun-equipped amazons riding giant wolves), an ancient God, a bit of Tron and The Terminator, a super-geek (named Hackermann...), time-travel, evil Nazis and Hitler a.k.a. the Kung-Führer, a cameo by David Hasselhoff, an animated sequence including reference to the M.A.S.K. animated series (for those of you old enough to remember) and of course awesome Kung Fu practiced by a super-cool hero who gets all the chicks. Sometimes the movie also has a video-game look (reminding me of SEGA's Streets of Rage), and in fact there exists a derived video game called Kung Fury: Street Rage. I love the disclaimer at the end of the game trailer: "Don't try Kung Fury moves on innocent bystanders. Being awesome in-game doesn't make you awesome in real life. Unless you get hit by lightning and bitten by a cobra [NB: this is how Kung Fury got his powers]. Then you're OK", which summarizes pretty well the spirit of the whole enterprise. A must see for a good time. A sequel Kung Fury II is in production.
Rating: 8 /10