In this movie miracle, kung fu star Eko Lee (cute Elaine Lui)links up with an insurance investigator, Lucy (Nina Li Chi) to find Lee's father, who's presumed dead in New Guinea -- possibly for the life insurance money. They dodge warring Maori tribesmen and equally menacing treasure hunters, flee from man-eating komodo dragons, survive a twenty-foot drop down a waterfall, escape from ferocious mercenary tribesmen, perform some jungle fu, and get live scorpions on their arms and down the front of their blouses -- all without stunt-doubles. Frightening, fast-paced and completely convincing, many of the fight and action sequences inspire a Raiders of the Lost Ark kind of awe. Stay around for the astonishing outtakes at the end.

(4/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]