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    by HP32586


This movie is a better version of the Gu Long novel "Pian Zhen Lang Zi". The other movie for the same story is "Pursuit Of Vengeance" (Shaw Brothers). The only drawback is that Ti Lung is a bit old to play young Fu Hong Xue. Ti Lung also stars in the other movie as Fu Hong Xie.
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    by SH38765




This movie is successful as both a dramatic tragedy and a screwball comedy. An old man, enjoying the fruits of an evil life, decides to wrap up a loose end from his past. He knows that the son of a man he murdered is coming for revenge. The old man gathers together four men, each of whom might be the assassin.

The charming and beautiful Fennie Yuen Kit-Ying plays his concerned daughter. She spends the movie trying to protect her beloved father with her poor fighting skills, full purse, and willingness to do "anything" to save her father.

Two of the suspected men are at the narrative core of the movie. One man is living only to be the assassin the old man fears. He is psychologically scarred and miserable. His scenes tend to be darkly emotional and full of suffering, sacrifice, and loss. The other man is utterly without desire for any sort of revenge on anyone and is joyful and carefree. His scenes are light-hearted and full of broad comedy.

Anita Yuen has a wonderful role in the movie as the happy fellow's perky wife. This is like a Shakespeare play about Bhuddism....

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    by BJ9386


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    by Shmicked


Interesting martial arts movie. Good action, pretty good story.
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    by John



This is a wonderfully made action/adventure/martial arts soap opera of somewhat epic proportions; but most of the action takes in or around a small town in the northern China desert. The DVD shows good picture quality, and the Mandarin dubbing seems to always match perfectly, so I believe this to be a Mandarin language film (I might be mistaken). The Thunder Media version DVD is the lesser cut version, running at 127 minutes. I'm pretty sure this is still a shortened version of the two part movie series, but this version is so much easier to understand and follow than the radically shortened version called The Invincible Power of Kindness (which for no reason at all cuts off the entire ending and story resolution!). This is one of those really good early 1990s swordplay adventure yarns about a misguided and misunderstood wandering swordsman, and another more well-adjusted peace-loving swordsman. They seem to have a link from thier past, but it takes the whole movie for this to unwind. It has all the usual exploding and throwing trees, invisible cloaks, and wire-work like all the best B-movies have from Hong Kong. This is really great!
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    by Leh

Unusual looking martial arts fantasy, kind of a MongolianDragon Inn. A group of heroes gather in a small village, to settle the score for a tragedy that took place 20 years before. Ti Lung is the troubled warrior out for revenge. Some wirework looks a bit dated, but all in all this is an engaging movie with many inventing and exciting action scenes. The vague spaghetti-western feel, with the lonesome hero out for revenge, is a neat touch.
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