Scott LeBrun The great cult filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith strikes again, with this lively international crime / kung fu picture, which he also scripted. Yu Wang stars as Chinese police inspector Fang Sing Leng of the "Special Branch". He travels to Australia for the purpose of extraditing a drug dealer (Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, also the martial arts choreographer). Before he is silenced by an assassin (legendary Aussie stuntman Grant Page), the dealer gives up the name of the man for whom he works: Wilton (one-time James Bond, George Lazenby), a prominent gangster. Our intrepid hero takes on all comers (and there are a lot of them) as he attempts to take down this Mr. Big."The Man from Hong Kong" is simply grand entertainment. There's no deep thinking involved; it's just plain fun. It serves up one glorious action set piece after another, even opening the movie with some action as Hung is apprehended. It's pretty damn violent, but it's also stylish and amusing and never, ever boring. The various locations (including Aussie landmark Ayers Rock) are well photographed, and the script by Mr. Trenchard-Smith is often humorous as it throws in everything but the kitchen sink.Yu Wang is an amiable hero who shows remarkable indestructibility; he has more lives than nine cats. He even takes time to make sweet love to ladies such as reporter Caroline Thorne (Rosalind Speirs) and the adorable, pretty Rebecca Gilling. A couple of Aussie icons have supporting roles: future "Mad Max" cast members Hugh Keays-Byrne and Roger Ward as detectives, Frank Thring as an underling named Willard, and Bill Hunter as Peterson. Lazenby is an enjoyably smug, smarmy villain. The incredible fight between Yu Wang and Page goes on for quite a while. Look for the director in an extended cameo as one of various thugs.The movie may be best known for spawning that hit song "Sky High", performed by Jigsaw. It accompanies the opening credits and sure gets you in the proper mood for this diversion.The finale with Lazenby might well have inspired the makers of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" a dozen years later.Eight out of 10.

udar55 HK Inspector Fang Sing Leng (Jimmy Wang Yu) travels to Australia to extradite a drug dealer (Sammo Hung). When the hood is assassinated on his way to court, everyone suspects Jack Wilton (George Lazenby), a crime lord who the local police haven't been able to pick up. I wonder if Fang will get him? This Aussie-Golden Harvest co-production was an attempt to launch HK superstar Jimmy Wang Yu on a global scale post-Bruce Lee. The film is very effective, thanks mostly to director Brian Trenchard-Smith's Bond-esquire style that capitalizes on lavish locations and over-the-top stunt work. Wang Yu isn't the smoothest fighter, but he gets the job done with fights every 15 minutes or so. The highlight is a throw down inside a kitchen against stunt man Grant (STUNT ROCK) Page. Even more surprising is seeing Lazenby doing a lot of his own stunts including a fantastic fire gag. There is also a masterful car chase that reminds me a lot of stuff in DEATH PROOF (I'm willing to be Tarantino used this as a reference). The oddest bits of the film have women falling for Wang Yu the second they see him. Ah, the power of cinema!

mambo_man "The Man from Hong Kong" is a lost classic of the "so bad it's good variety" which almost defies neat encapsualtion. Forget the at times seemingly ad-libbed script (the two Aussie coppers appear to be making it up as they go along), forget acting which only very occasionally rises to the modest standard of George Lazenby's gifts, forget even the sight of Aussie icon Rebecca Gilling showing off all her ample charms - the real fascination in this film if how every big budget action film cliche is thrown in here - but done on the lowest possible budget. The exploding Toyota Crown at the highlight of the pre-title sequence is a dead giveaway. So is the scene where the guy falls off the ladder. He just falls off the ladder..... thud! And the way the two guys at the brginning *run* to the top of Uluru and duke it out. Like you can do that....A great film to watch with some rowdy friends.

gridoon The hero, Yu Wang, is a poor man's Bruce Lee in this action film which is a poor man's James Bond adventure. It's an astonishingly lame-brained movie, with no plot or suspense: instead, it provides endless fight sequences which produce more yawns (from us) than thrills. As for George Lazenby, who plays the villain, he has absolutely no charm as an actor, but at least here he's passable and ALMOST makes you forget his Bond past...