The Vengeful Beauty

Shaw Bros studio never famous for a coherent story in their flick cause to be honest usually the twists is just an excuse for more fight scene so the same goes for The Vengeful Beauty a 1978 kung-fu flick directed by Meng Hua Ho the man who introduce the most fearsome weapon ever invented in China history"The Flying Guillotine".You don't want to mess with any of Shaw Bros character no matter how they look like cause there 95% of chance they can kill more people than you imagine let alone a pregnant widow in this movie.Don't think too much about the plot and enjoy a series of fight scenes in The Vengeful Beauty and you will be fine.

The fast pace of the film covers a lot of creaky film making. The plot basically follows the heroine as she attempts to get to her uncle after her husband is killed by the Flying Guillotine Squad.

What does this film deliver? We get a kung fu heroine whose fighting ability scares all the bad guys. We get gimmick kung-fu weapons galore. We get a brief topless woman kung fu fight (we need more of these). And we get well choreographed fights every 5 minutes.

The director is not in the same class as Cheng Cheh or Liu Chia Liang but the film never runs out of gas so the occasionally strange direction doesn't gets in the way. The director seems more comfortable with the drama scenes. The film is less grim then "The Flying Guillotine".

A good kung fu film, not a waste of time.