Apparently this is a Hong Kong rip-off of the 1992 Steven Seagal film UNDER SIEGE about terrorists on a boat. Not being a big Seagal fan and having never seen any of his big films I'll have to assume that's the case. That being said this seemed fresh enough to me for an all-out action-fest kung fu flick. Star Kenny Ho pretty much spends the whole film kicking multi-racial terrorist ass with the help of the stylish direction of Yuen Woo-Ping who goes way back to the 60s and has done stunt work/coordination for about a billion classic martial-arts extravaganzas. Leading lady Christy Chung, while not as great with the fighting skills, plays a sympathetic enough part as the bad girl trying to do the right thing and she even gets to put on a blonde wig and mock Madonna in a delightful scene. There's some clunky dialogue, especially in the dubbed version, but I think this is a good one to watch just for the excellent fighting if that's your bag.
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