Well, this was a treat.
If you enjoy a stick in your eye. If you like movies so bad that you wonder
how any of them showed their faces again. Or why they didn’t buy the negative
and burn it. This has to be one of the most misbegotten films ever put to
celluloid. This should be shown in introductory film classes as what not
to do. Yet I watched it till the end out of some hope that it would all come
together. It stars Kara Hui, Ku Feng and Dick Wei. Not necessarily in the
same film. It is a puzzle. I think some mastermind stitched together scenes
from 2 or maybe 3 films and came up with this. A Frankenstein production.
Taking that into consideration it isn’t that bad. It almost makes sense.
Kind of a hats off to them for trying so hard. Don't waste celluloid. But
it feels like Dick Wei is in a film, then Kara is in a different film and
then this couple in yet a third film. All put in a blender. It is still awful,
though the Dick Wei section had promise. And Kara does have a few fights.
Not with Wei because he is in another movie. Or the evil husband of the couple
because I think they are in another movie. But they almost make it look like
they could have.
The narrative jumps around like a grasshopper on a hot stove – coming down
at various places in the film’s narrative and then jumping over to another
film within this film. I feel tired just trying to explain this. So we have
Dick Wei and two good friends (Chung Fat being one) who meet a group of men
and they machete them to death. Who are they? Why did they kill them? Why
do these three then disappear from the film till near the end? Questions
for a greater mind than mine. Hey, there is Kara! Looking terrific. She is
visiting her two female cousins (actresses you never heard of) but Kara is
a cop and has been told to investigate their father, her uncle Liu of narcotic
smuggling. Their grandfather is Fu Feng. The boyfriend of one of the cousins
– who both know kung fu of course – is told to come in fifth in a car race
– or else. And we never hear of this again.
Then in a third thread there is a husband pimping out his wife – but this
is really a domestic abuse story. Her mother pretends to die and be put in
a casket in order to escape the husband. It doesn’t work but a nice touch.
The husband’s father was Dick Wei. Ku Feng was one of the three guys. The
boyfriend’s grandfather was also one of the three guys. That took place 50
years ago. Are you taking notes? I hope so because then you can explain it
to me. There is a cool female villain named Scorpion with two huge scorpions
tattooed on her chest in case she forgets her name. A few fights that
are nothing to write home about. Dick Wei and Kara usually guarantees a decent
action film. If only they had been in the same one. The filmmakers would
have made Roger Corman proud. The director was Liew Kah-yong. Seen on a taped
copy of a LD from long log ago.
