At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The first must-see film of the year.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

1975 Taiwan with Jimmy Wang Yu, Hsu Feng, Chia Ling, Chang Yi and Chen Hung-Lieh It starts with guns and that is never a good thing in a martial arts movie. Jimmy has the answer to the problem – shoot back. The heroic bloodshed or bullet ballet movie has not been invented yet, though. The drama is heavy as Chang Yi is introduced as an old man. It seems he liked the makeup and played many subsequent roles as the white eyebrows villain. Chia Ling and Hus Feng are the good and bad kung fu chicks. Chen Hung-Lieh is the murder for hire man and his hair was perfect. He goes full lecher over Hsu Feng and despite her history as a hooker she makes him work for it. Jimmy is determined to find the root person and gets a surprise. This is not a typical Jimmy Wang Yu movie but I liked it despite the few fights. The fights were certainly creative and interesting. The copy I had was English dubbed and the dubbing started to get out of synch by 50 minutes and became worse.