It opens at a martial arts gym. Some guys work out as four guys at a table have a serious talk. There is a flashback to a professional fight featuring Bolo Yeung. The guys at the table go to the water front and send off Cheng Liu. On the boat, he stops a fight involving cheaters at a card game.
At about the 20 minute mark there is a comedy fight between Sun Lan and Hon Kwok-Choi. I liked it because anytime a guy gets "depantsed" down to his bare butt I will be laughing.
This movie caught my attention because of the lead actor, Charles Heung Wah-Keung. I call him the "Goose Boxer" because he starred in the 1978 martial arts movie of the same name. That movie was above average and quite memorable. As usual, he did quite a few other martial arts movies, some good, some stinkers. He went on to be a big name producer of Win's Entertainment and China Star Entertainment Group. Charles' acting career began in 1973 and he has seven movies to his credit that year. There is no way to tell which was first. I also reviewed "The Big Fellow" and "End of the Wicked Tigers" and "Beba, the Mermaid" and rated them all just average.
My copy is a digital file that seems to have a VHS as source or might even have been videotaped from a television broadcast. The result is the square sized video on my HDTV. The dialog is Chinese, which I do not speak. I know there is a Jamal fan subtitled version available.
Usually I can figure out what is going on without the dialog subtitles but not in this case. There is just too much going on. Yet there is not enough going on to hold my attention. I rate this as just below average. I cannot recommend it to fans of this genre. If a fan does acquire the subtitled version that might make a difference. This fan is not going through the effort and consider this movie as watched once and done.
