Leofwine_draca I saw this under the title DRAGON CONNECTION. It's a densely-plotted Taiwanese kung fu movie with more story than action, and what a confusing story it is too. It begins with a music score sampling STAR WARS and a guy getting messily dissolved and it ends with a bunch of larger-than-life characters duking it out to the death.In between we get confusing character motivations and a large tapestry of main players usually working against each other. There are at least four familiar performers here if not more, and watching them at work almost makes this worthwhile. Tien Peng is the stock hero character and saddled with all of the heroic stuff while Angela Mao appears and is underutilised. She may or may not be a purple-clad masked avenger called Violet who has been hunting and killing bad guys. Chang Yi is a psycho villain and very effective with it, while Lo Lieh plays an escaped convict who gets involved in the affair. It's all rather routine, and the martial arts is acceptable rather than electrifying, but you could do worse.

ebiros2 These movies made by smaller companies can't match the quality Golden Harvest put into Angela Mao's pictures. But being small is not an excuse for not making great movies as Golden Harvest's first movie Angry River also starring Angela Mao has highest quality for a '70s film.This is a real old school kung fu movie offering not much more than the fight scenes. This type of kung fu movies are soon to be extinct as movies focusing more on interesting characters and unique ideas starts to fill the market.Although the movie is made by a Hong Kong company, perhaps it was targeted for the Taiwan market. This movie has very strong semblance to movies made In Taiwan of the period.I consider Angela Mao of this period to already be semi-retired. Her choice probably was correct, as mentioned above, the type of movies she grew up in became extinct around the time this movie was made.Why they don't showcase the main star is a mystery to me, but I see this happening across the board with Taiwanese movies. This movie closely follows this erroneous format.So the movie has lot of boring characters going through the motion which doesn't add anything to the story. There're just too many fighters (every fight seems to become a brawl) that makes this movie without focus. Angela Mao come sin at the very end, but mostly does nothing throughout the movie. Her actions are stylized, and lacks the sharpness from her earlier movies.Better stick to the classics from Golden Harvest if you're an Angela Mao fan.

ckormos1 Every Angela Mao movie leaves fans of the genre hungry for more. Personally that means more of her martial arts skills and more of her beauty. This movie borders on starvation. The plot started out okay then added stuff that just did not matter and was not resolved. More important is the action. In the first hour there were times that Angela could have and should have taken off the stupid hat and veil and kicked some ass. Didn't happen. Yet the last 20 minutes or so (excusing the excessive acrobatics of the stunt double) were done just right. Perhaps they should have started at the end and filmed the beginning last. Anyway, a taste is all we get. Watch it anyway and think of what could have been.

gorthu I usually don't care whether or not a kung fu movie has a good story, but the story is the reason I didn't like this movie. Everybody is looking for a map and it just doesn't make much sense. There are other parts to the story but it is mainly just mindless talking.I suggest just fast forwarding to the last 20 minutes. Dorian Tan, Lo Lieh, Roc Tien Peng, Angela Mao Ying, and Chang Yi all get to show off, and Chang Yi is the only one I felt got enough fighting time. He is on fire in the final fights and he is the only reason this movie is worth watching./////////////////