The movie begins with an announcement from the Exposition News Network informing the audience of the Vietnamese refugee ship and the smuggled gold. The concept of smuggled gold still eludes me. If it is your gold then good for you. If it is stolen then bad for you. What is smuggled gold and why is it a bad thing in this movie?
Bruce Li wants to get married but his girl makes him chose between her and martial arts. I did not expect to see her again after that scene. Hon Kwok-Choi does some scuba diving to get the smuggled gold. Bruce Li prefers the gold be left underwater. Hon Kwok-Choi fools them all and has the gold. The Exposition News Network has another announcement but the story has lost all sense anyway. Worse, at twenty minutes in there is no clear cut villain. Plus there was only one fight. Actually the plot is quite simple and did not require any exposition. The gold belongs to the bad guys and they want it back so Bruce and his gang are in the deep.
The fights are good enough considering the restraints imposed by the movie. It is contemporary action so the fights have to be street- level real. This makes creativity too much of an effort plus the fights really do not advance the plot at all. The only way to make one fight different than the next is in the choice of weapons and set. The movie is also notable for the fact that Bruce Li does not copy Bruce Lee's moves and sounds as he has done in many previous movies. My copy is a VHS converted to a digital file with the expected poor resolution. It is dubbed in English by the A team of voice over folks and they did a good job.
I can mildly recommend this movie only for fans of the genre and rate it just average.
Bruce Li wants to get married but his girl makes him chose between her and martial arts. I did not expect to see her again after that scene. Hon Kwok-Choi does some scuba diving to get the smuggled gold. Bruce Li prefers the gold be left underwater. Hon Kwok-Choi fools them all and has the gold. The Exposition News Network has another announcement but the story has lost all sense anyway. Worse, at twenty minutes in there is no clear cut villain. Plus there was only one fight. Actually the plot is quite simple and did not require any exposition. The gold belongs to the bad guys and they want it back so Bruce and his gang are in the deep.
The fights are good enough considering the restraints imposed by the movie. It is contemporary action so the fights have to be street- level real. This makes creativity too much of an effort plus the fights really do not advance the plot at all. The only way to make one fight different than the next is in the choice of weapons and set. The movie is also notable for the fact that Bruce Li does not copy Bruce Lee's moves and sounds as he has done in many previous movies. My copy is a VHS converted to a digital file with the expected poor resolution. It is dubbed in English by the A team of voice over folks and they did a good job.
I can mildly recommend this movie only for fans of the genre and rate it just average.