I'm not sure what we watch old school HK movies for. Is it the action? Hell no; not for me anyway. There might be some good action starting from the mid 70s, but that was 5 years before I was born. The tyical one-step, one-punch, slowly-paced, wirefree, Americanized kung fu style is a disgrace to the genre. Could it be the story? That's more like it; most of these movies in original language have nice stories, though every one has major flaws. Well, if it's not the action or the plot, then I'm really unsure of what it is that's making us wanting to watch old school stuff... perhaps just for fun.

This, however, is by far one of the best in the old school catagory I've seen. Wang Yu doesn't show his lack of skill here as he does in, say, Golden Swallow, and the story is indeed Shaw Brotherish inspiring. Too much violence though... NOT FOR KIDS!

[9/10]