The film is set sometime during the Chinese civil war, though a timeframe is never specified. It stars David Chiang and Ti Lung as two hustlers out to make a buck and raise hell whenever they can. Think along the lines of a poor man's "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" and you have the right idea.

David Chiang becomes friends with a revolutionary, Wan Tai (Ku Feng) who recruits the pair to steal 3000 rifles and a heap of ammunition from an army outpost and transport it by train to the south, where the rebels are hiding.

The film has quite a lighthearted tone that veers off into "Naked Gun" territory, with our pair of heroes trashing their own shanty house, Leslie Nielsen style. The scene is played for laughs and works, but the rest of the film doesn't.

The two heroes spend the rest off the film kicking, punching, jumping through windows, and stabbing baddies with bayonets. During the fight scenes, everyone has rifles, but instead of shooting each other, they decide to club each other about the face. This could have been really entertaining if the director had cooked up some inventive choreography like Jackie and company did during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, but sadly it plods along in a pedestrian manner.

The train chase, which is supposed to be an action highlight, is shocking. A jarringly obvious model, it tumbles into a puddle that is supposed to be a lake.

Avoid unless you are a kung fu enthusiast.