The Girl Named Iron Phoenix

The comic relief bits are, as the other two reviewers (to date) have mentioned, truly lame. And stale. And no incentive to stick around for the predictable ending. But if you approach it as a Judy Lee vehicle, tolerating the flaws along the way, it's not a bad showcase for her skills and personality.

She's an undercover cop assigned to bust the honchos running the docks for their insurance scam of killing off workers in "industrial accidents" and keeping most of the payouts. Perhaps their company's mission statement was "get a piece of the wok". Bad pun, but still funnier than the script.

Back to Judy. The fight scenes are barebones. Few weapons. No wires, and only one gimmicked part of a mob encounter (big burlap bags flying like they shouldn't hadda oughta) in a scene that is otherwise all human-scale kicks and punches, augmented by the usual excessive sound effects on impact. Her character is clearly the Alpha, and she knows it, showing confidence ala Donnie Yen's yet-to-come Ip Man outings, with occasional glimpses of Bruce Lee's cockiness.

It ain't great art, but it adds up to a better package than many of its competitors from that era.