The Third Entry in the Five Film Series seems Longer than its 91 minute Running Time.
There are a few Flourishes of Note. The Location Shooting adds a Grandiose and Beautiful Backdrop, some Torture Scenes are Visceral with Gruesome Devices keeping with the Sadistic Tone of the "Fu' Films, and Christopher Lee again Strikes an Imposing Figure as the Towering Megalomaniac.
The Plot, however, is not Worthy of Fu's Intellect. Replacing Law Enforcement Leaders with Doppelgangers, one at a time, seems to be a rather Lengthy, Round About way, of Conquering the World.
A Cowboy Hat wearing "Gangster" looks Ridiculous in the Setting, as does most of the Dialog from most of the Non-Asian Bad-Guys.
Nayland Smith (Fu's Arch-Enemy) is Reduced to Zombification and is Replaced by another American, a Dull FBI Agent who is used for a Few Weak Kung-Fu Scenes.
The Least of the First Three "Fu" Movies and by most accounts the Last that is at all Tolerable.
Note...Filmed in part at the legendary "Shaw Brothers" Studio in Hong Kong. It didn't help much.
There are a few Flourishes of Note. The Location Shooting adds a Grandiose and Beautiful Backdrop, some Torture Scenes are Visceral with Gruesome Devices keeping with the Sadistic Tone of the "Fu' Films, and Christopher Lee again Strikes an Imposing Figure as the Towering Megalomaniac.
The Plot, however, is not Worthy of Fu's Intellect. Replacing Law Enforcement Leaders with Doppelgangers, one at a time, seems to be a rather Lengthy, Round About way, of Conquering the World.
A Cowboy Hat wearing "Gangster" looks Ridiculous in the Setting, as does most of the Dialog from most of the Non-Asian Bad-Guys.
Nayland Smith (Fu's Arch-Enemy) is Reduced to Zombification and is Replaced by another American, a Dull FBI Agent who is used for a Few Weak Kung-Fu Scenes.
The Least of the First Three "Fu" Movies and by most accounts the Last that is at all Tolerable.
Note...Filmed in part at the legendary "Shaw Brothers" Studio in Hong Kong. It didn't help much.