Year:
1992
Cantonese: Hap Nui Chuen Kei
Mandarin: Xia2 Nu:3 Chuan2 Qi2
Literally: Chivalrous Woman Legend
Producer: Stephen Shin Gei-Yin
Director: Yu Mang-San
Action Director: Philip Kwok Chun-Fung
(Kuo Chui)
Writer: Lee Man-Choi, Leung Kim-Ho
Cast: Michelle Reis (Lee Ka-Yan), Lau
Sek-Ming, Cynthia Khan (Yeung Lai-Ching), Waise Lee Chi-Hung, Lau Shun,
Kara Hui Ying-Hung, Philip Kwok Chun-Fung (Kuo Chui), Lau Siu-Ming, Tam
Wai-Man, Cheung Ping-Chuen
Running Time: 90 min
HO - Michelle Lee and the
young man are the young prince(sse)s of two warring realms. Inevitably,
they fall in love but fate and age-old hatreds are against them. Cynthia
Khan is Michelle's butch-ish bodyguard. Waise Lee is Cynthia's semi-estranged
ex-husband...
LEH - Another swords-and-magic
film along the lines of the Swordsman series. Well made, fairly good story.
Watch out for the rotating monks!
SS - (**) In China's dynastic
'dark age', Princess Sin Ling (Michelle Lee) and Prince Ha Hon (Waise Lee)
belong to warring clans but soon fall in love. She wants peace, but the
prince's aunt presses the prince into vengeance. For long stretches, the
filmmakers take this 'Zen' idea way too seriously. Cynthia Khan plays the
Princess's cute bodyguard.
JMF - Some of the cheesiest
fight scenes ever put on film. So packed full of cliches, stiff dialogue,
bad editing, and incomprehensible action sequences it would be funny if
it weren't so painful to sit through. Go watch EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES instead.
At least the humor there is intentional.
MC - Well,
here's a movie that made very little impression on me. The movie starts
out promising (nice look, some cool flying
action)
but eventually degenerates into revenge-driven silliness. Not good, not
terrible. At least Michelle Lee has some
gawk-value,
and Cynthia Khan is pretty cool in this movie. |