What follows is an entertaining, often unintentionally hilarious (Check out Wang Yu's pajamas!) Australia-lensed actioner encompassing much martial arts mayhem, car chase chaos, a spot of hang gliding and Jimmy Wang Yu enjoying the carnal company of two separate half-decent antipodean females!

Apart from Golden Harvest contract player Lazenby there's a few other familiar faces from down under including shaggy haired Hugh Keays-Byrne (From Les Patterson Saves The World and Mad Max.), Roger Ward (Also from Mad Max and Turkey Shoot.), Frank Thring (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome), Bill Hunter (Long before The Return Of Captain Invincible and Muriel's Wedding.) and even director Brian Trenchard-Smith (Dead-End Drive In and Turkey Shoot.) shows up in a bit part as a heavy.

Kung fu fans may notice several soon to be successful performers paying their dues as bit-part bad guys. Yuens Kwai and Biao, the late Lam Ching Ying and the aforementioned Sammo Hung all end up on the receiving end of Wang Yu's fists and feet.

The film's plot is pretty simple -- Wang Yu plays Inspector Fang, who travels to Sydney to bring a drug runner (Sammo Hung) back to Hong Kong. On the way to the airport, the criminal is assassinated, and so Fang sets off to bring down Sydney's big crime boss, Wilton (one-shot Bond actor George Lazenby), much to the chagrin of the local police department. Any sort of story is really just an excuse to get to the next action sequence, of which there are plenty. Sammo Hung also handled the action direction on this production, and his touch is evident -- he even got George Lazenby (who was said to be notoriously hard to work with, which is why he only played James Bond for one movie) to do a fire stunt for the final fight.

Most long-time HK movie fans know that Wang Yu wasn't as solid of an action star as some of his contemporaries, due to his coming from the sports -- rather than the martial arts -- world. But Wang Yu (under Sammo's direction) handles things fine here, and there are several scenes (such as a rambling fight through a restaurant and a car chase that manages to still be exciting even though it takes place on a nearly-deserted road) that stack up well against similar films from this period. Also, The Man from Hong Kong, for the most part, doesn't come off as dated as many films from the 1970's now do; even though the film-makers spend too much time on hang-gliding sequences, at least there's no disco dance-offs or polyester suits.

It's also interesting to note how progressive The Man from Hong Kong was (and still is) in presenting the relationship between the Eastern and Western worlds. Even though there are a few un-PC digs thrown at Fang (Wilton tells him "every Chinese I've met has a yellow streak"), it's certainly nothing like movies such as Lethal Weapon 4's infamous "flied lice" scene. Unlike every other Hong Kong crossover star, from Jackie Chan to Jet Li to Chow Yun-Fat, Wang Yu is involved with not just one, but two, women. And these are not just "a peck on the cheek" scenes -- they are full-on love scenes. In doing this, the character of Fang is elevated to something more than a castrati kung fu sifu; he becomes human. Finally, this was the first Hong Kong/Austrailian production. While it has not been a huge relationship over the years, it did lead to films down the line such as Jackie Chan's Mr. Nice Guy, which, of course, led to Chan's breaking into the American market with Rumble in the Bronx and the subsequent immigration of directors and actors to US productions.