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Inspector Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu) has come to Sidney from Hong Kong just
to extradite a drug courier (Sammo Hung) - but that men is shot dead by a
sharp shooter (Grant Page) from right under his nose, a sharp shooter Fang
catches up with and kills in the ensuing fight. It's found out that the
assassin was a top student at Wilton's (George Lazenby) martial arts dojo
though, and Wilton has been long known to be a crime kingpin, without the
local police being able to pin anything on him. Fang wants to take Wilton
down on his own but the cops in charge of him (Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger
Ward) pretty much urge him to leave the country - and yet he uses a
journalist he knows (Rosalind Speirs) to get invited to one of Wilton's
parties - where the two men battle it out to a standstill. Later that
night, Wilton tries to have Fang murdered, but he makes a daring escape to
the countryside and finds love with Angelica (Rebecca Gilling) - something
that almost makes him forget the case, but Wilton's goons catch up with
him, and in an attempt to get rid of him they kill the girl - and now Fang
will stop at nothing to make sure that Wilton gets his just desserts ... The
first feature film of B action veteran Brian Trenchard-Smith - and it sure
is a fun ride, an early merger of Hong Kong kung fu and Western action
cinema that pretty much seems to stumble from one fight or chase or action
sequence to the next and is unapologetic about it, plus all the action's
well-staged, the stunts are thrilling, and the East-West merger comes
across more natural than in other similar movies (including Enter
the Dragon, actually), while the whole thing, while definitely no
comedy, has a light enough tone and traces of irony to it to actually get
the more over-the-top scenes across convincingly enough to basically make
this a fun ride.
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