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A bunch of Ming patriots & freedom fighters are no match against
Manchu general Kao (Carter Wong). Lin (Tong Wai) is wanted desperately by
Kao to serve under him fro the Manchus, but when Lin refuses, Kao
challenges him to a duel to the death ... & defeats him. Later his
sister Ying Min (Chin Meng) wants to take revenge, but is fatally injured
in a fight with Kao. & then there's Ming general Han (Tung Li), who
has the attack plans of the Manchu army which are supposed to be at the
Ming headquarters in 9 days, but Kao searches the whole city for him,
& finds & kills him too.
Soon, the corpses of Kao, Ying Min & Han are brought to Taoist
priest Lu (Yee Yuen), who regularly takes corpses to their respective
birthplaces by using his magic to somehow revive their motoric functions
& having them hop behind him (quite a common practice in Chinese
legends). Thing is, he only takes corpses across country by the
half-a-dozen, so he takes three other bodies as well.
& after the usual slapstick involving hopping zombies, the Manchus
stop Lu, & it eventually turns out that not only Han, Ying Min &
Lin are not really dead but used the priest's services to get out of town
& to Ming headquarters to hand over the plans, but the other three
corpses are alive as well, & are common crooks who had the same idea.
When the Manchu guards attack though, the crooks & our heroes team up
for better chances to survive ... & eventually they actually make it
to their destination, only for our heroes to find out they have been
betrayed by the crooks, & soon it's our heroes pitted against the
Manchu army ... whom they defeat.
Enter general Kao, who has seen through their evil plans from hour one
& now uses his superior martial arts skills to fight them, & soon
he has killed Han, & it doesn't look too good for Lin either ... but
Lin suffers from an earlier injury which gives him only a few more hours
to live ... & with that in his mind, he figures he defeats Kao in a
way that has them both killed, since he has figured this is the only way
to kill Kao. Only Ying Min survives ...
& what about the army plany ? They arrive at their destination
safely by another messengeer, general Han & company were only bait for
general Kao from the beginning on ... & it worked.
Mediocre martial arts film that has a few colourful scenes (like those
withthe Taoist priest) but refuses to milk them & instead favours a
straightforward tale about Ming heroes overcoming the odds, not
necessarily worse than hundreds of others of its ilk, but not better,
neither.
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