This seemed to be a beautiful production, Jackie Chan's stunt team teaming up with another great choreographer and master of the chopper triad movie, Wang Lung Wei, a combination of talent that should have made an intense and effective triad movie. The results, they are not as expected, simply because the script is top soft, the characters aren't interesting, there are alot of miscasts, and Chan and Wang's choreographing styles are different, as Chan's stuntwork is carefully choreographed and graceful, while Wang's choreography and style is rough and edgy. The problem is that this is a Jackie Chan production, and that Jackie Chan's choreography and ideas only count, so Wang Lung We doesn't get to show off his stuff. The fight scenes feel soft and fake, instead of being gritty and hard as a chopper triad movie should be. Take a look at Wang's Hong Kong Godfather(1985) and compare it to this movie. Hong Kong Godafther's action was hard and gutsy, while the action in this movie is too shallow. The perfect chopper triad movie needs 80% of Wang's ideas and choreography, and 20% of Chan's ideas and choreography. Not the other way around, and that's just what happened here. Like Wang's Bloody Brotherhood(1989) made a year before, this is another soft chopper triad movie that Wang had almost no creative control over. If this movie would have been made in 1985, with Chan and Wang, this movie would have been an intense triad chopper movie. By the 90's, Chan's action mellowed out so much that the guts was ripped out of his action, to the point that Chan's action was just him clowning around, and that had an effect in his stunt team's choreography, resulting in choreography that is missing the gritty guts, edgyness, urgency, and emotion once seen in Chan's 80's, as Chan's 90's choreography, showcase din this movie, uses a soft, bland, and balletic choreography that's quite empty and boring. Not interesting, intense, or edgy enough to be a chopper triad movie, and the beginning of Chan's downfall in the quality of his choreography. 2/5