This 1978 film had real potential but fails to deliver. It has a potentially great story line but it goes off the rails somewhat. The acting is OK, the fighting good but then again no one said fighters make good actors necessarily. Some of the supporting actors do well and others are far from good but maybe the story line is what makes it tough for them.
There were a few (I stopped counting at a few!) holes in the story and too many ends left unexplained, which made the story line verge on silly in places. The dialogue was really bad in places, sometimes funny and at other times it will make you cringe. A couple of times it is downright embarrassing and it suffers from a few too many cliches.
I was expecting more from this film and it disappointed me a little, especially as it had such good potential with the actors and the story outline. I don't think I'd watch it again, there are better kung fu films and Jim Kelly has made better films too, then again he did star in "Hot Potato", which makes Tattoo Connection look great!
A couple of little irritants, the title of the film is never really linked to the film, just in a very vague way and the DVD cover has a story outline that is far wide of the film's story! I wonder if the writer of the DVD cover blurb actually watched the film? I can understand why (to an extent) but it is a little dodgey to tell a better story on the DVD cover than what is in the actual film!
Overall forgettable, sadly.