| Overlong and unbearable, Lo Wei (The Big Boss) directs the story of homeless swindlers played by Polly Kuan (as a character posing as a boy) and Sam Hui. After an endless array of scenarios where they squeeze a little money out of various sources, they hook up with a poor family of martial arts performers and use their crafty skills to help them out a little. Kuan's Chilli Boy even manages to befriend a lawyer who takes her out of the gutter and into the high standards. And there's a Hang Ying-Chieh subplot about his whip, his prostitutes and seeing as Angela Mao is there, some fury in the fighting stakes is injected as well. Still, at 2+ hours, Lo Wei displays no sense of knowing when to stop. It's hard to see him being in love with this dull material (with several strand of opportunities sure) and hard to figure out why you would want to kidnap an audience for 2 hours just to give them scattered commercial content. Carter Wong and Tien Feng also appear. |
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