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    by SN28148




Okay, I'm gonna' go all out and tell people what to expect right now: this film is in no way associated with Jackie Chan. Somebody tried to use a deceptive tactic to make it a Chan and Moon Lee film by using deleted footage from his movie, "The Protector". I'll tell you right now, forget about the plot with the Chan-man and just focus on Moon Lee and company.

The movie focuses on Ho and Sang, two brothers from a dojo in the Mainland town of Guangzhou who are asked by their long-lost Uncle (Lau Kar Leung) to come and help manage his restaraunt over in Hong Kong and to have a little fun in between. Once there, they meet Penny (Moon Lee), their beautiful cousin who just happens to be an expert in tae kwon do. Upon leaving the airport, they have a run-in with some local thugs; and when Penny gets into a fight with them, the thugs get caught by C.I.D. as it turns out they were carrying a bag of heroin on them. Apparently, this doesn't sit well with the gang's crime boss (Eddie Maher), and he wants this problem dealt with by his two lieutenants since the incident caused him to lose face. What follows next are a series of street battles involving a fight at a roller-derby, a Hong Kong nightclub, and a showdown with the villains after Penny's team loses two casualties thanks to Eddie's homeboys.

I rather enjoyed this low-budget actioner, and it was fun to see Moon Lee, Ricky Cheung, and Chin Siu Ho throwdown with the local Triad element on the streets of Hong Kong--and the fight scenes were very top-notch. On the downside, Lau Kar Leung doesn't fight until close to the end, and the English dubbing for this movie [on the US double feature DVD by Brentwood] was so-so. Some of the voice actors sounded a little bored like they were reading their lines while others tried to show a little gusto while talking.

The plot may be a little scrambled and kind of all-over the place, (thanks in part to "The Protector" being added to this film) and the strangest part is how the criminals keep toying with Moon Lee and her crew rather than just trying to kill them half the time--they even tried to set Ricky Cheung's character up by making him deliver fake drugs and then tried to kill him when the buyers weren't able to finish him off.

Overall, the film was good and fun to watch; but like I said, to fully enjoy this film you need to ignore the parts with "The Protector" in them.

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