It starts in a casino where a fight starts. Next is an abrupt cut to Lau Kar-Wing and crew mining on a mountaintop. Tino Wong Cheung enters and orders some "special quality rocks". There is a fight and Sek Kin is the master that stops it. He gives our hero words of wisdom, particularly "do not fight". Our hero is soon framed for murder.
The star and action director is the great Lau Kar-Wing. Lau Kar-Wing, a.k.a. Liu Chia-Yung, is the brother of Lau Kar-Leung, a.k.a. Liu Chia-Liung who I consider to be the most important man in the history of martial arts movie. They do look alike and used that feature in 1982 "Legendary Weapons of China", the movie I consider the greatest martial arts movie of all time. I could only tell them apart by his brother's mole over his eyebrow.
Lau Kar-Wing with his brother began a movie career in the black and white Wong Fei-Hung movies then moved on to Shaw Brothers. I could go on for pages praising his work but fans of this genre are already well aware of his accomplishments. Instead, I will use this review simply to say thank you for the great movies.
My copy is a digital file that plays on a HDTV as the typical VHS quality size and quality video. It is English dubbed by the "A" team of voice over actors. I first watched this movie about four years ago. By about the one hour mark the movie was not holding my attention so I stopped. The posting on IMDB needed corrections before I could post my review. I decided to wait for that and try to watch the movie again later.
Lau and Sek spar briefly hand to hand. It's a good fight but nothing special. Sek fights again versus two assassins in hand to hand. It is also a good fight but nothing special. He dies from a backstab. The weapons come out for the final fight and these are the best fight sequences. The movie does drag in the middle from too much talking about the plot. Overall nothing about the movie makes it any better than just another average one for the year and genre.
