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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Format:VHS Tape
The premise of this film is pretty simple. The american authorities need to go back to vietnam to recover or destroy a secret arsnel that they left in the the vietnemise jungles after the war. They do not send in american troops instead they get the chinese army leaders to create a crack squad of chinese prisoners to go and do this.
After the mission is cancelled, they are stuck in the vietnam jungle with only one thing to do, complete the misson and risk not getting extracted when it is over.
So they go and join the cambodian rebels, led by Angela Mao. They go and try to find the underground base.
They soon pick up Yuen Biao's character, who is a trader on the blaak market and gets the people of the towns almost anything they want.
Now the troupe is complete, they go on and find the base.
I will not spoil the suprises that are along the way, but i will just say it has an explosive ending.
The fight scenes all through the film are first class, as you would expect from a Sammo Hung film. The stunts are also very good, especially where Sammo jumps off a high cliff onto the back of a army truck.
The fights are very brutal, which i found different from many Sammo films (watch out for when Sammo gets out his machete...) as it is quite bloody in places.
All in all, a very good film that many people will enjoy. If you are not particulary into Hong Kong films, then this could be a good starting point, although this may be a bit on the more violent side for some people.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
Sammo Hungs personal favourtie film comes to d.v.d. The film has an excellent storyline, and some of the best war fight scenes ever to be filmed, togehter with great acting (especially from Sammo Hung himself) This is a fantastic restored print from 'Hong Kong Legends.' The quality of the picture is excellent, consdiering the poor storage techniques of film negatives in hong kong. The sound has been inproved, and there are some brilliant animated menus included. There are some fantastic extras included, the most intersting is the 2 10 minute interviews with sammo hung (director and actor of the film) which were filmed especially for this d.v.d, in 2001, so they will not be found on any other d.v.d's They reveal interesting facts about how the film was made, and sammo talks about the many injuries that he suffered whilt making the film (as he is well known for doing mostly his own stnuts.) overall, this is a fantastic release from the company, 'Hong Kong Legends' The only drawback was the fact that the animated biography was not included on the disc in full, depite the fact that the disc is clearly not double layerd, which means that you will have to buy further sammo d.v.ds to complete the biography. still, theres no problem with doing that!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This is my fav. Sammo film. It is a serious but great war story which is different from dud kung fu films from the 70's. It had about 5 fights with Sammo and Yuen Bio both Jackie chan friends. The end fight with sammo and yeun fighting baddies together is brilliant. This film features Gun Shooting, Swordplay and of course Kung Fu. This is a better Sammo film to get instead of Magnificent Butcher (Which is a bit dull but still good)
GRAEME NOBLE
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A solid Hong Kong action film.
The story is fairly simple, as is often the case with this kind of movie, but it doesn't totally stink, and being the only martial arts war film I've seen, it does stand out from... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Calculon
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Sammo's Greatest Ever
After seeing this film reviewed on amazon and being a South East Asian fan I just had to order it...and was I impressed. Read more
Published on 5 May 2009 by Jay-D
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my favorite movie, just slightly ahead of "dragons forever".
i love yuen biao and sammo hung and as far as i can tell, this has been my one of my favorite movies. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2008 by Shiri
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Just the hardest movie ever...
A hong kong kung fu movie about the vietnam war - sounds insane, but Sammo Hung pulled it off and created my fave film off all time. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2002 by Joe
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fight scenes, great director, great movie!
This is another great quality DVD from Hong Kong Legends. The picture quality is great along with the sound. This has to rate among Sammo Hung's best. Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars
BUY THIS!
Classic mid 80's Sammo film. great cast, great stunts, great fighting. Highlight is Sammo and Yuen Biao fighting Yuen Wah at the end. Buy it now.
Published on 14 Oct 2000
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