Reviewed by: Stephe Date: 03/04/2013 Summary: Chen Hung-Lieh -- to the rescue!? The Winger Tiger is the only movie I've seen in which Chen Hung-Lieh plays the lead and is a good guy, to boot. And he carries the film quite well. Chen Hung-Lieh also played a good guy in Death Valley two years earlier, but there, he sort of played second fiddle to Yueh Hua. Not here, though. He's charismatic and gallant, and has a complicated relationship with Angela Yu Chien, who here has so much more make-up than she did in Death Valley that it's sometimes hard to realize that she's the same person. What is even more surprising than Chen Hung-Lieh playing a good guy, though, is Ngai Ping-Ngo (who usually plays wimps and nerds) playing a blind badass with a steel staff. He actually manages to upstage Tien Feng! The plot is sort of twisty, and there is some tense and involving choreography slightly reminiscent of that in A Taste of Cold Steel (a film in which Chen Hung-Lieh played a really slimy character, even for him), but the special technique ascribed to the title Winged Tiger style is one of those dorky wire fu creations that isn't convincing for a second, and that hurts the film a little. I suspect people stayed away from the Celestial release of this one because of the awful graphics on the DVD and VCD, which is sort of a shame, because this is a decent film. Reviewer Score: 6