Royal Destiny

This is a strange little IFD-produced action film made by editing two different films together and re-dubbing the whole thing to make a nonsensical story about the drug baron of munich vs several caucasian hong kong mafias vs several law enforcement agencies.

75% of the finished frankenmovie comes from a movie about various incompetent police officers vs ruthless drug dealers. The other 25% of the movie is about a blonde lady in an abusive relationship with a g gordon liddy-looking martial arts trainer and her scheme with a police officer (who looks like a failed attempt to clone richard harrison) to get g gordon liddy arrested. There was also a scene about a burglar murdering a woman while her lover was in the bathroom, but that one didn't seem to be from either movie, though it's possible i just missed those three characters out of the dozens that are introduced up to that point.

The movie has the consistently funny english dubbing and strange choices that make me think godfrey ho must have had something to do with it, but i don't think he's credited. If you enjoy godfrey ho stuff, you'll probably enjoy this, however it really could have used some brightly-colored ninjas.

Sideburns guy is the best part of the movie. Pretend he's the protagonist and it gets better. Also, the ending is hilarious.

So it turns out Godfrey Ho and his IFD studio were running into the 1990s, swapping their cut and paste ninja films for more general poor quality martial arts thrillers, still starring western cast members but without the familiar faces of Richard Harrison and Phillip Ko to carry them through. ROYAL DESTINY is a case in point. This Hong Kong-filmed production involves some cops battling drug dealers, but the main point here is that most of the cast members seem to be German, probably acting as language teachers in the territory or some such given the quality of their performances. The plot involves the usual treachery, double-crossing and violent encounters between foes, and of course there's a wealth of cheesy action scenes to recommend this, although sadly as with a lot of IFD films they're not much cop and certainly offer little reason for the seasoned action fan to tune in.