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Ok,
This is probably my favourite Bruceploitation movie as the producers have put Dragon Lee in as rather a secondary character (even if they do put him down as 'Bruce Lei' at the beginning.)
The story is pretty basic. John Liu and Tino Wong star as two men whose fathers killed each other twenty years before in the quest for greatness. John Liu is the more superior fighter and manages to fight Tino Wong off at every chance. Dragon Lee co-stars as Tino Wong's brother (although, judging by the cover, you'd think he was the star.) Liu gets a job working for some disabled guy that wears white face paint and invites people to his house to beat his men up for a $20 prize (hardly worth the hassle.) But get this. The guy is in a wheelchair because, several years before, he tried to rape someone and a dog chased him across a field and bit his testicles off. Nobody said this would be straightforward. Anyway the guy is helping some Americans get their hands on stolen antiques, so Liu works alongside him. Perhaps the best part is when Bolo Yeung turns up as one of Mr No-Testicles' fighters, with fake chest hair and acting like some sort of retard. (And why is is that Bolo seems to turn up in EVERY Bruceploitation movie?) Later it transpires that Liu is infact working for the government to get to the bottom of the antique smuggling ring, and so he and Tino Wong join forces, kill Mr No-Balls' best fighter, and then.....when you thought he had disappeared from the plot....Dragon Lee turns up and kills the disabled guy, who, it turns out, could walk after all. Pretty simple really. Like I said before, Dragon Lee seems to be pretty secondary to the plot in this film, even if, as usual, he overdoes the whole Bruce thing. But then, isn't that what everyone loves about Bruceploitation?
Reviewed by Chris Redman