Year: 1989

Starring: Sammo Hung, Joyce Godenzi, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Carina Lau, Tang Bik Wan, Yuen Wah, Agnes Aurelio

Directed by: Corey Yuen

Screenplay: Yuen Kai Chi, Chan Pui Wah

Action Cheorographer: Corey Yuen, Man Hoi, Yuen Tak

Running time: 90 minutes

Storyline
The Huangs family is a family of police, old Huang and his sons and daughters are the brave police officers. The son Tsung-Pao's wife is also a senior policewoman Mina. But the sisters don't like Mina. They make sure she does not have a good time while Mina suffers in silence. A rapid on a Vietamese gangs was ordered, but sister Ling commits a serious mistake and the whole operation fails. The gangsters strike back, they kill Tsung-Pao and blow up his coffin. That unites the distaff Huangs. They go into action to shoot down the lawless.

An action movie with some drama, it almost sounds like an oxymoron. If you're a big time action fan you may not like the drama stuff. I guess that maybe it could be a "date" movie with the action for the guys and the "drama" for the chicks. The action is cool including a couple gunfights, hand-to-hand fights, and some motorcycle stunts. The good "guys" in this movie are a bunch of female cops, but that doesn't mean they can't kick some ass.

Although Sammo Hung is in this film he basically remains at the sideline and busts out the kung-fu moves for about 2 seconds during the end battle. This was Joyce Godenzi's film all the way, with a little help from Carina Lau (fun fact: Sammo Hung and Joyce Godenzi are husband and wife in real life). Yuen Wah plays the leader of the Mafia triad and, as usual, he plays it well, but he doesn't get to show off his skills. The end fight between Joyce Godenzi and Agnes Aurelio is pretty cool with some painful looking moves in there. In one sequence Joyce Godenzi takes on a bunch of sailors on a ship. They all have weapons like wrenches, knives, and Joyce has a sledge hammer. My favorite scene is when this guy jumps at Joyce and she beats him right out of the air with her sledge hammer. It's halarious. I can't believe that director Corey Yuen also directed No Retreat, No Surrender, oh well we all make mistakes.

Although the film is peppered with drama, the most dramatic moments generate a few chuckles. The death of Tony Leung's character borders on the outlandish. Being shot in the shoulder and leg with spears, whacked by a huge swinging log, and then pulled up into a tree by a net where finally he was skewered by about a dozen sharp pointy objects, the scene seems more like a Wily Coyote/Road Runner cartoon than an actual dramatic death scene. As if that wasn't enough, what do you do when you've already killed someone? Well, you blow up their coffin at the funeral!

You get a blend of bloody gunfights and flying fists. If you are a fan of Hong Kong action flicks you may have already seen this, but if you watch the lame Michael Dudikoff and/or Don "the Dragon" Wilson starring vehicles that come out of the States you may want to check this out.

Rating: / 10