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戰龍在野 (1992)
Invincible


Reviewed by: dandan
Date: 02/24/2011
Summary: he is my toe!

fire (danny lee) is betrayed by two triad bosses, ??? (leung kar-yan) and kwong (jimmy lung fong), after carrying out a hit for them. fire ends up in prison, but asks kit (dave wong) to get his money and take his sister, mandy (sharla cheung), to europe. unfortunately, kwong has other plans for mandy, but kit manages to rescue her, killing him in the process. the pair flee to paris, but find life very hard, with triads on their tail and no money; kit decides to join the foreign legion, so he can get citizenship, but this means things are going to get harder before they get better...

this is an odd, blacky ko directed effort, in which he takes a major supporting role, as kit's only chinese buddy in the foreign legion. it's a pretty straight affair (apart from the man-on-man sexual assault), which is riddled with bouts of over-acting and some unusual character development, as we see the weedy kit transformed into an invincible killing machine.

to be fair, i'm glad it degenerated into some legionnaire lunacy, as i think it would've struggled to maintain interest, if it had continued along the 'on the run in paris' route. so, as long as you're in the mood for some men, in the desert, running around, fighting, shooting and blowing stuff up, with military drill sergeants who have insane levels of discipline, then this might just be for you.

kinda daft, but kinda fun...