I get extremely ratty with people who say “oh, those foreign kung fu movies, they don’t have any PLOT, do they?” I argue that every Hong Kong action film I’ve seen has at least some form of plot, and that many have great convoluted twisty-turny plots that make you scratch your head and that just a few have absolutely stunning plots.

However, it’s hard to come up with a defence for this. Maybe it’s THIS film that they’re all talking about. There may be a plot in there, there may not. I couldn’t really figure it out, to be honest. Everything seems extremely haphazard and thrown together without the slightest bit of care. I seriously thought I was watching fight scenes from two separate films bolted together to make one incomprehensible mess. Apparently not, though.

What’s even more disappointing is the fact that I’ve seen some decent low-budget films from Godfrey Ho that have actually been pretty entertaining (DYNAMITE SHOALIN HEROES and EAGLE VS SILVER FOX for example). This, though, is pure toss. It tries to be sexy, it tries to be action-packed and it tries to be competent. But the truth is, it fails on all levels.

Best avoided.