Rating:

Aka: CLAWS OF STEEL

Stars: Jet Li, Leung Kar Yan, Liu Chia Hui (Gordon Liu), Choy Chung Sun

Director: Wong Jing

1993, Hong Kong, Wins Film Co./Eastern Films

 

When Wong Fei Hong (Jet) moves his Po Chi Lam Kung fu school, he meets police-chief and Kung fu expert Lui. At the harbour, one of Wong’s students, Leung Fu (Leung Kar Yan), notes that some guys are kidnapping a girl, he is stopped by police-chief Lui who claims Leung was making trouble without any reason and is taken to the Po Chi Lam school. One day when watching a kung fu show, Wong saves the demonstrators from a fight and invites them to stay at his school if they want. Days later one of the demonstrators appears ready to faint at Po Chi Lam looking for Wong, and tells him that some monks are kidnapping girls and selling them in Asia. Wong investigates the manner but is arrested by Lui.

 

This movie was not great, but pretty funny (sympathetic) and entertaining the same.

Good kung fu but overuse of wires, of course, lowers the rating.

Jet does his usual wushu but changes to a Chicken style and then to Drunken Boxing at the end, not to difficult techniques used but I know that Jet knows a lot of wushu styles including the drunken boxing.

Gordon Liu has a small role as an evil monk and sits in a thing that looks like a Chinese lamp and flies around. Don't know why he does it, but it's pretty silly.

Chung Fa from the Samo Hung stunts group cameos here as a Monkey Stylist from the Boxer Rebellion.

Chu Te Hu also has a small role as one of the kung fu demonstrators. The other demonstrator is a girl that uses northern leg techniques and kicks pretty nice but the wires are obvious.

Choy Chung Sun is good as the mean police-chief, he's a cool dude.

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