The Legend Of Wisely is another Wisely story true enough (in case you don’t know, Wisely is Hong Kong’s answer to Indiana Jones, and is a character that has appeared in countless HK movies – most famously known when Jackie Chan played him in ‘Armour Of God’), but this is probably the worst one about the adventurer. Though Sam Hui does suit the part – unfortunately his onscreen presence is annoying, but then again, he did loose my respect as an actor a long time ago.

Wisely is in search of a giant pearl that his friend was looking for before he died. He suspects his friend was killed because of the pearl. He meets a man along the way who also has an interest in the pearl, and when he finds out where it is, he goes into a temple acting as a monk, which leads to trouble. The rest of the film is really no more than Wisely running around getting into trouble and meeting new people along the way (Ti Lung and Joey Wong). No particularly good stunts either from the likes of Blacky Ko whom clearly did a lot of Sam’s stunts.

Both directing and production is nothing special, as is the story. Sam Hui is far too annoying for me to comment positively on his performance, so I won’t say anything. Both Joey Wong & Di Lung are not on the screen long enough to comment on them either. The film drags a lot, as there are a lot of ‘nothing happening’ scenes which almost look like filler for a movie that really lasts little over an hour.

Overall, it is dull a lot of the time, as Sam Hui seems to be all “hey look, it’s me it’s me”, but not a bad little fun film I suppose. It does get better towards the end. Still, when I watched this recently it was the first time I think I had ever seen it, though I may be wrong, but it’s hard to remember with all the Wisely films around.

Rating [2/5]