Runtime:
88 minutes
Directed
by: Tso Nam Lee
Starring:
Jim Kelly, Sing Chen, Tao-ling Tan, Bolo Yeung
From:
First Films
On
this Wednesday night I decided to end my foreign film thing I'm doing
for Letterboxd (although of course I'll still watch a decent amount
of foreign movies) by bookending it with another movie from Hong
Kong, this time from the late 70's. Plus, Wednesday was the 67th
birthday of Bolo Yeung and it is my way of noting the passing of the
late Jim Kelly.
The
plot, from the IMDb: “When
a diamond (the awkwardly named North Pole Star Diamond) is stolen in
Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent
to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to
have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his
criminal organization.”
This
is just like a typical kung fu movie from the 70's, mainly with the
crappy dubbing. But, this is a pretty entertaining film. The plot
isn't difficult to follow at all and things move at a decent pace.
The score is pretty great in its funky groovy ways, and the action is
at least fine. Oh, and there's a lot of nudity, including more than
one instance of full-frontal, so for you horny people out there...
The
wackiness starts in the final act, where you have such things as
dubbed Bolo Yeung singing, someone getting mad because Bolo and his
pals were singing, Jim and a ladyfriend dancing to a disco-sounding
tune, Kelly drinking a raw egg as “it's the best protein to
increase sexual drive” and basically an early form of Viagra, only
it kills the person who takes it due to the massive heart rate
increase. All of this made me laugh and laugh.
The
movie is easy to find on YouTube so if you want some free martial
arts action from a movie that is sometimes inaccurately titled Black
Belt Jones 2 despite having nothing to do with the first one except
for the lead actor, then you should check it out.
I'll be back Friday night and I'll be more punctual. I have quite the movie planned for that.
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