The problem with kung fu movies set in more modern times is that anyone with a gun can just shoot a kung fu master and your fight scene would take about 3 seconds. This movie has the balls to set the movie in China during World War II and just have heroic Chinese martial artists chop the guns out of those evil ol' Japanese soldiers with nary a fear of getting their asses shot off. If that's not angering enough all later releases of this advertise it as a Jackie Chan flick and it's not really. Going through my collection of Jackie Chan films recently I've watched a few real stinkfests but this one might be the bottom of the barrel. If you want to see Jackie with a short buzzed haircut playing second fiddle to a pretty bland main star, then getting his ass kicked and finally murdered in a bloody fashion then maybe this is for you. Otherwise look to any number of Jackie's superior outings.
I believe this is the first film that Chan has any type of sizeable role in though(besides the stuff he did as a little kid) so I suppose it has some historical importance if nothing else. AKA FIST OF ANGER, FISTS OF ANGER and NOT SCARED TO DIE
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