A modern-day version of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, this Korean action-comedy jettisons the earnest self-importance of CTHD in favor of sending up the dusty cliches of the martial arts movie. Yu Sang-Hwan (played by Ryu Seung-Beom, the director's brother) is a nerdy, pencil-necked cop who spends all day giving tickets and whining about how he wants to do more in life. Meanwhile, on the other side of Seoul, the Seven Masters, led by Ja-Un (Korean film icon, Ahn Sung-Ki from NOWHERE TO HIDE), sit around whining about the state of the world and how the flow of universal ch'i has become impure and corrupt. When a palm blast from Ja-Un's daughter goes awry, Yu crosses paths with the Seven Masters and they offer to train him to reach his full martial arts potential. Wouldn't you know it? At that exact same moment on the other side of town, a construction crew unearths the ultimate evil.

Anchoring all the talk about Palm Blasts, Dragon Ch'i and tao disciples in modern day Seoul , ARAHAN wrings maximum comedy and action mileage out of its kung fu concepts. A big-budget, crowd-pleasing flick, ARAHAN pits gormless dorks against pitiless killers in an unstoppable avalanche of action setpieces.

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Based on the description I wasn't holding out for too much but this movie surprised me. The beginning was a little slow & weird but it started to pick up and got much better by the end. Good mixture of fun & serious. Good movie martial arts. The male lead was cute and the female kicked arse. Good to see some character actors I knew throughout the whole movie. Definitely a fun watch I thought.

I was some what disappointed with this movie..
serious wasn't really serious for me
and they tried sooo hard to make it hard i think

comedy part was very funny

but as soon as it was getting serious, i didn't really want to watch it

the girl was pretty cute