| Wen Tai, a respcted man, is planning to work with an evil man named Hao in order to smuggle some goods in town. However, the government, led by Commissioner Fung, has sent two men known as the Double Kicks to watch Wen Tai as they suspect he is planning exactly what he plans to do. Meanwhile, two local gang members want to marry Tai's daughter and begin to compete for their hand. Wen Tai decides whoever kills the Double Kicks can marry his daughter. However, one of the Double Kicks, Su Fang, goes undercover as the son of one of Wen Tai's friends, so he can infiltrate and learn who the main boss is in the whole smuggle operation. Meanwhile, his partner Yu Lien, fights off each of the gang with the help of Su Fang, who wear a mask to protect himself. When Wen Tai is challenged by the Double Kicks, he soon learns that Su Fang is one of the Double Kicks, and they begin to duel.
This is a great action film with some great martial arts sequences. The flashy Tan-Tao Liang gets a partner in his real-life younger brother, Tan Tao-Chien, who has similar fighting skills somewhat as his brother. While Tao-Liang does all the flashy footwork, Tao-Chien does a little bit as well, but I guess he didn't want to make big brother look bad, so he also added some ground kicks in his fights. You can see a similar resmeblance when you see the two together. Lung Fei, another usually good kicker, is wasted as the warlord Wen Tai. This was such a shame, as many who know of Fei's kicking, would have wanted to see a superkicking duel. Oh well...look out for a gross out cannibalistic like scene thanks to a black magician who puts the wrong spell on himself and kills gang leader Blackbone, played by veteran villain actor Tsai Hung. Aside from that horrific scene, this is a nice little chop socky film, one of Tao-Liang's last before retiring to teach taekwondo in L.A. |
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