A lawyer is working on a court case involving a woman who owns a fish farm that is being polluted by a nearby factory. The lawyer calls in 2 friends and they try to distract the women with romance.
It seems like this was trying to be everything and ended up as nothing. The hour and a half duration seemed long, mostly because I'm having a really crappy day when everything is problems. The plot was a little too convoluted for a kung fu flick and full of cliches from the genre, location and time. The characters did not impress me, except Mr. No Eyebrows at the end (image). He's the only non-Asian in the entire film! I think that much of the verbal humor was lost in translation during the absolutely horrid dubbing process. Physical humor remained and the team of Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan do a great job at that. The sets and costumes looked professional. Camera-work and editing looked textbook-perfect like Home Alone (1990). However, that does not include creativity or surprise. It was all very predictable and straight forward. There was just enough kung fu to classify it in the genre, but romance took priority over fighting. What fighting there was looked very much like the style of the 2 main stars, for obvious reasons. As I mentioned before, the dub was bad, but the audio quality was not. The dialogue was a little low in some sections and the kung foley was a little loud, but not annoyingly so. IMDB has this at 7.3/10, AllMovie rates it 1.5/5 AllMovie rating and 4/5 user ratings and Rotten Tomatoes has a 79% audience score. 65.5% is so close to getting an F that it can feel F's breath on the back of its neck. I agree with this average. Wikipedia says that this sucked because the actors played out of character to the point that a woman poisoned herself at the film production company's office. It's not worth poisoning oneself over a crappy movie though. I rate this poor. You probably should not watch it.
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