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By chance, cashier Hua (Casanova Wong) has learned of plans of bank
president Mo (Fung Hark On) to take over the city by getting rid of the
mayor & use his own influence to become the next mayor. But when Hua
wants to warn the mayor, telling it to his right hand man Chiu (Dean
Shek), little does he know Chiu is really in cahoots with Mo ... &
soon enough Mo's man attack Hua, who is no match for them & only
survives because dim-witted but good-natured Fat Chun (Sammo Hung), who
happens to pass by, saves him from his attackers & brings him to
master Tsiang (Leung Ka-Yan), both doctor & Kung Fu teacher. Tsiang
agrees to heal Hua, but refuses to teach him because Hua onla wants to
take revenge on Mo's gang (who have since killed his mother). Only thanks
to Fat Chun's trickery, that involves Fat Chun himself putting all his
incompetence into teaching Hua (in a rather hilarious scene), does Tsian
finally agree to teach Hua.
Only Mo doesn'T like that very much, so soon enough he lures Tsiang
into a trap & has his men brutally kill him. Then, bringing the
master's body with them, they attack Tsiang's school & massacre all
students, only Fat Chun, Hua & Tsiang's niece Phoenix manage to
escape.
In hiding, they hone their individual martial arts skills & decide
to attack Mo's place by each picking out one of his 3 top fighters to whom
their skills are most closely matched ... a plan that almost goes wrong
whenFat Chun has mixed up their names, & it costs Phoenix her life,
but in the end, it's only Mo whom Hua & Fat Chun have to fight ...
only Mo is not the old man he always appeared to be but a young versatile
fighter, preferably using the mantis technique ... only by combining their
forces & attack as a team can Fat Chun 6 Hua defeat him in the end.
One of Sammo Hung's early film as a director that already sets the standards for
things to come: a beautifully photographed movie with excellently staged,
high voltage, inventive action scenes & incredibly quick changes in
mood of the picture, from comedy to drama & back again ... that most
of the time actually work, too (this would eventually become Sammo's
trademark, nobody could change moods quite as quickly & effortlessly
as him).
Only an elongated (& very
traditional) training sequence in the middle of the film sslows prceedings
down a bit, but that doesn't destroy the movie.
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