I got myself a special treat with a double feature, first 'Yes Madam' and then this film. While the first film was a fun action comedy, this film was very much darker and brutal in its narration. It's done by the same director and both films got Cynthia in them, but then there's not many other similarities.
I've only seen a few films with Rothrock, but she's a cool B-actress, doing a lot of pointing with her finger, and it's wonderful to see Yuen do a film of his own without Jackie or Sammo around. It's just that this film had the same problem as 'The Iron-Fisted Monk'. For the lead to protect the good people of the film, they pretty much fail and pretty much everyone of importance die, and when it get that far, you begin to lose interest, because what does it even matter if the bad guy win or lose if every good person is already dead? I really found the death of the lazy cop guy as distasteful. His colleagues didn't seem to be that sad about it and when his dad sees his dead soon, they try to make some strange kind of gag where the blanket over the dead body isn't long enough for him and then also putting a cigarette between the corpse's lips - it made me cringe a bit.
It's not fair calling it a bad film, because the fight scenes is still very good, not amazing like other films the two leads have done. The final stunt with the airplane gave me Tom Cruise vibes, and this was back in the 80s, which is cool that someone did it before Tom. The best scene in the film for me is when the bad guys are trying to crash their cars into Yuen's character in a parking house. It was 'car fu' before it was a thing and it would be the thing I would use if I would want to show anything amazing from this film, otherwise it's not a film I might return to, because it was just so depressing and sad at the end, no reaction you want when watching an 80s Hong Kong film, categorized Action Comedy Crime on imdb.
I've only seen a few films with Rothrock, but she's a cool B-actress, doing a lot of pointing with her finger, and it's wonderful to see Yuen do a film of his own without Jackie or Sammo around. It's just that this film had the same problem as 'The Iron-Fisted Monk'. For the lead to protect the good people of the film, they pretty much fail and pretty much everyone of importance die, and when it get that far, you begin to lose interest, because what does it even matter if the bad guy win or lose if every good person is already dead? I really found the death of the lazy cop guy as distasteful. His colleagues didn't seem to be that sad about it and when his dad sees his dead soon, they try to make some strange kind of gag where the blanket over the dead body isn't long enough for him and then also putting a cigarette between the corpse's lips - it made me cringe a bit.
It's not fair calling it a bad film, because the fight scenes is still very good, not amazing like other films the two leads have done. The final stunt with the airplane gave me Tom Cruise vibes, and this was back in the 80s, which is cool that someone did it before Tom. The best scene in the film for me is when the bad guys are trying to crash their cars into Yuen's character in a parking house. It was 'car fu' before it was a thing and it would be the thing I would use if I would want to show anything amazing from this film, otherwise it's not a film I might return to, because it was just so depressing and sad at the end, no reaction you want when watching an 80s Hong Kong film, categorized Action Comedy Crime on imdb.