Kung Fury (2015) (Short)

"I was able to triangulate the cell phone signal and trace the caller. His name is Adolf Hitler.", 3 July 2017

A regular plot summary on Kung Fury is about impossible. Kung Fury is so over-the-top, so random, and so completely insane that my head might explode if I tried to summarize the thing. Suffice it to say that a modern day cop named Kung Fury, who has was given extraordinary fighting abilities when he was hit by lightning while simultaneously being bitten by a cobra, travels back in time to stop Adolph Hitler before he can time travel to the future. Kung Fury is aided by Thor, two Amazon-type warriors, a super-hacker, and a triceratops who happens to be a cop. Or something like that.

I loved this short. Kung Fury mixes together everything that made 80s action movies so awesome into one mind-blowing experience. I could sit here and name about a dozen movies that Kung Fury uses for inspiration. It's all over the place. Somehow, director David Sandberg makes it all work and does so at break-neck speed. There's so much going on that the 30 minute runtime literally flies by. Just freakin' amazing.

I don't take the ratings I give lightly. If I give something a 9, that means I was completely blown away. My ratings are based primarily on entertainment value and Kung Fury entertained the pants off me!

9/10