It starts with a narrated tour of Hong Kong with the focus on crime everywhere. Fishermen smuggle drugs. The lady boss arrives in Thailand. Some scenes of Thailand accompany the opening credits.
This movie is unique for its female star and director Kao Pao-Shu. Female directors were rare back then and continue to be rare.
This movie takes too much time to set up the bad guys without any story or plot. When a story finally develops, unfortunately, it involves children. Children and coincidences beyond belief. Specifically, bumping into a random stranger in a big city three times. I guess it is all relative though. I find that coincidence much easier to believe than a child being able to land a helicopter. It makes me wonder if anyone read the script first and pointed out the problems. Then I have to remember that movies are made without scripts. The average movie viewer might find that impossible to believe but it happens. Big money is spent, people are hired, schedules are made, equipment is hauled, and the result is a bunch of people standing around ready to make a movie that none of them has any idea about. They actually start shooting scenes because they figure they will need such a scene. Put a bunch of people in a room where they are all gambling could be a scene. They film it simply figuring they'll eventually use it. The same can be done with a fight scene. You always need a fight scene. Fight scene that makes sense? No budget for that luxury! Hah!
I am a fan of martial arts movies of the golden age from 1967 to 1984. I am on a mission to watch and review every movie made in that age. Though there is "action" in this movie the minimal fights hardly can be called martial arts. How did I stumble upon this stinker of a movie and decide to watch it? It was Woo Gam, a.k.a. Hu Gin, or Hu Jing. This lovely lady played a sex kitten in so many of these movies. She was the best at that one dimensional character. In this movie she plays a nice woman. She was nice but boring. I admit I watched that movie just to look at her. I looked. I yawned.
Sometimes I write a review. Sometimes I write a warning. You are warned.
