I never knew there was an opening fight 'cause when I bought this movie the tape wasn't rewound all the way so I thought what I saw was the beginning. I never knew Adam Cheng knew kungfu, always thought he was some kinda ageless Chinese Sean Connery who had a lot of charm and that was it. So I guess the movie surprised me a bit. The pacing, the dialogue and the storyline all reminded me of pulp kungfu novels, grade-b kungfu novels of course, but they were eye candies nonetheless. Academically it covered all of its grounds--it had its plot development, its character development, its tensions...etc. but when they ended up on screen they just looked really mediocre and no one gave a damn.

Adam Cheng, that villain dude, and Gordon Liu had all the good fight scenes--GREAT fight scenes. The opening sequence was pretty good too even though it had nothing to do with anything and I didn't know who those guys were. Any scene, or even any sequence that didn't involve them were pretty unwatchable. The women in this movie were some of the worst martial artists, most ungraceful ones at least, ever to be featured in movies like this one. They spoiled a good part of the movie, along with the cheesy lines.

The very end of the movie actually had this lady lecturing her brother about how martial artists should come together and combine forces because that was what martial arts were all about. Then the last shot was one of the most puzzling thing I had ever seen in my life. What did it mean? Those two people leaping away like that?

Email me if you know the answer, please.