Two convicts escape
prison while shackled together. When the
one good-natured convict won’t go along with his cellmate’s criminal schemes,
they get into a big Kung Fu battle. He then
strangles the goody-two-shoes and takes off.
This scene is easily
the best part of the movie. From then
on, the film switches focus to a humble, but badass dock worker trying to help
an owner of a rice house from getting pushed around by bad guys. This stuff is fairly standard in just about
every way and is indistinguishable for dozens of other Kung Fu flicks I’ve seen
in the past year. The rest of the
picture was bad enough for me to wish that the whole thing had been about the
two convicts. I mean imagine how great a
Kung Fu remake of The Defiant Ones would’ve been. Sigh.
Sure, there’s plenty of
Kung Fu action and chopsocky carnage, but although there are a lot of fights,
nothing much ever really happens. Also,
the choreography is less than stellar and the editing is often
herky-jerky. I watch a lot of these
things and even though it was action-packed, it still left me cold. I honestly had trouble remembering much about
it shortly after I watched it.
Outside the opening
fight scene, the film really doesn’t feature anything you haven’t already seen
before. Even though it’s only 73
minutes, it feels much longer than that.
Your mileage may vary of course, but for me, the rest of the movie just
couldn't live up to the promise of that opening scene.
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