This is a silly movie, not even its makers take their characters very seriously. Couple of the likable characters have died for laughs, and the revenge is played in a very comedic fashion too. Everything is an excuse for the weaponary battles and/or comedic gags.

The movie gives us four very likable main characters, played by Sammo Hung and Lau Kar-Wing and Sammo Hung and Lau Kar-Wing again. The two actors play two generations of bittersweet martial artist rivals. Both have near-identical personalities and both are competent martial artists. They battle at least three times in this movie which presents us with an obvious problem: after the first match, you know it's always going to be a tie. Every little action one character does is going to be performed again very shortly after by the counterpart. After a while it gets quite annoying. Everything gets predictable--if Sammo gets kicked, then you know he's gonna punch Lau Kar-Wing right after. There is no dramatic tension whatsoever and makes it hard to appreciate the fights on more than a technical level.

On the technical level they are great fights, except that the moves are way too contrived, for reasons mentioned above and Sammo gets very very undercranked--the moves are nothing we haven't seen in 20 other Sammo costume flicks.

Not to say that this is a bad movie, it's just too lighthearted to last a solid 90 minutes. The acting is still top-notch, as well as the comedy gags. Still it's nowhere near Spooky Encounter or Prodigal Son.