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There are times when I think I could have been a director. I am sure I could direct a film as inept as this one is. It would not be easy but if I drank a lot it might help. There is so much bad in this film. Just the basic stuff like making sense, continuity, editing and so on. But there is some talent on the action side. Ron Van Clief is back in Hong Kong after The Black Dragon's Revenge in 1975, Carter Huang has some solid time, the big TVB star Cecilia Wong is the lady in distress (though being married to Natalis Chan in real life has to be worse) and there are a few other familiar faces from Hong Kong. Choreographing it all is Billy Chan.


The first half is cringe worthy. Vile. In Bangkok women are being kidnapped and sent to Hong Kong with drugs up their privates and employment in a seedy brothel. The women are brutalized and raped. But weirdly two prolific character actors are heading it - Fung Ging-man and Ho Pak-kwong. Very strange seeing them as heinous villains. I would have ducked out of this, but I knew Huang and Van Clief were going to show up eventually


One of the women kidnapped is Cecilia and they decide to sell her to a customer for HKD 20,000. The happy buyer is Huang! And she is thrilled. Ok. Getting creepier. When one of the women is murdered, the Black Dragon enters the film as an Agent of some kind. The minions come after him. Two of them are Mang Hoi and Peter Chan Lung. Later to be part of Sammo's team. Watching RVC throw the small Mang Hoi around was cruel. But fun. Cecilia, Huang and RVC all end up back in Bangkok and much action follows. The best fight though is between RVC and Huang before they realize they are on the same side. It is kind of a shame that the very talented RVC was in such crap in Hong Kong films. Seeing him go up against some real talent like Lo Lieh or Jimmy Wang-yu would have been fun.

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