One of the veritable flood of kung-fu flicks that came out in the early '90s, The T'ai Chi Master (released in English as Twin Warriors) is notable chiefly for its integration of kung-fu and slapstick, as well as for providing a vehicle for its young stars, particularly Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh. Choreographer and director Yuen Woo-Ping, known especially for his work on The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has a lot of fun with the best-friends-on-separate-paths theme; the extremely thin plot serves mostly to string together a wild and increasingly improbable string of fight scenes. These include Junbao (Li) and Tienbo (Chin Siu-Ho) taking on all of their classmates (at the Shaolin Temple, of course) at once in a bamboo-staff free-for-all that must be seen to be believed; several barroom brawls involving Yeoh's wandering-minstrel-turned-rebel; an ambush by what appears to be the entire Chinese army; and, of course, the necessary final showdown. Master features some unlikely plotting and characterization (Tienbo's quest for personal power never seems entirely realistic) and uneven pacing (including an admittedly funny segment in which Junbao first loses his mind, becomes convinced he's a duck, and goes on to invent T'ai Chi, hence the film's title). However, these minor quibbles are more than compensated for with Yuen's stunning fight choreography and an overall strong and charming cast, including plenty of mugging from Yuen Cheung-Yan (brother of the director) as an unlikely reverend and rebel leader.