YMMV / The Shaolin Temple

• Adaptation Displacement: This first film is a remake of Shaw Brothers' earlier version, The Shaolin Temple (1976). Most modern audiences would likely be more familiar with this version due to it being Jet Li's debut, however.
• Complete Monster: Emperor Wang Shichong overthrows the previous rulers and established a horrible dictatorship where countless innocents are enslaved, tortured and murdered. When one brave martial artist stands up to Shichong's men, Shichong himself fights and tears his throat out with his bare hands. When the man’s son, Jue Yan, proves himself a thorn in Shichong's side, Shichong attacks the abbey Yan lives at, and when the abbot offers to take the punishment, Shichong has him burned alive after promising to spare the other monks, a vow he promptly breaks when he doesn't get the answers he seeks. Shichong also attempts to rape the heroine after catching her, before he engages in a personal duel with Jue Yan.