 A lesser Ti Lung Shaw film. There are a few flashes of brilliance here, mainly with the choreography, but the story itself just isn't very interesting.
Ti Lung himself is great, as usual, but the film feels like it was made up as they went along (not an altogether uncommon practice in Hong Kong it seems).
One note regarding the ending that I saw in one of the other reviews - it wasn't a defeat the villain to prove you're right ending; there was correspondence between Sha Er Lang and Meng Er Da that was handed over to the authorities.
On a sadder note, whilst looking the film up on the internet, I found out that Wong Yue, Ti Lung's student in the film, passed away last month (May, 2008) as a result of hepatitis. |