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These movies made by smaller companies can't match the quality Golden Harvest put into Angela Mao's pictures. But being small is not an excuse for not making great movies as Golden Harvest's first movie Angry River also starring Angela Mao has highest quality for a '70s film.

This is a real old school kung fu movie offering not much more than the fight scenes. This type of kung fu movies are soon to be extinct as movies focusing more on interesting characters and unique ideas starts to fill the market.

Although the movie is made by a Hong Kong company, perhaps it was targeted for the Taiwan market. This movie has very strong semblance to movies made In Taiwan of the period.

I consider Angela Mao of this period to already be semi-retired. Her choice probably was correct, as mentioned above, the type of movies she grew up in became extinct around the time this movie was made.

Why they don't showcase the main star is a mystery to me, but I see this happening across the board with Taiwanese movies. This movie closely follows this erroneous format.

So the movie has lot of boring characters going through the motion which doesn't add anything to the story. There're just too many fighters (every fight seems to become a brawl) that makes this movie without focus. Angela Mao come sin at the very end, but mostly does nothing throughout the movie. Her actions are stylized, and lacks the sharpness from her earlier movies.

Better stick to the classics from Golden Harvest if you're an Angela Mao fan.