Post by cactus on Nov 7, 2009 9:17:22 GMT
The Gold Connection, or Iron Dragon Strikes Back, or Rache Ohne Gesetz, or Hui Feng Hao Huang Jin Da Feng Bao if you want to, isn't very good. One of the main characters is played by Bruce Li, who the german trailer actually claim to be Bruce Lee…
A couple of diving buddies find a mysterious box in the water outside of Macao. It turns out to contain vietnamese gold. They decide to return the gold, and if it's still there three days later, they think they can take it. One of the guys think it's a bad idea, and sneak back to take it. The gold though, is payment left for coming refugees, and the bad guys who want the gold are soon on the trail of the divers.
The action sequences are pretty bad, people do their one-two one-two moves as they've practised them. They block and duck ages before the corresponding attack has even begun, and sometimes they don't even look at each other. They just keep on going, one-two, one-two. The end scene in which Li kills the bad guy made me laugh out loud, because it's really crap. Li kicks the head off a mannequin and nobody over the age of three can take it seriously.
The story is somewhat interesting, but honestly we're watching a film like this for the action, and that's not much even on a Bruce Li-scale. His films are mostly more entertaining than this one.
My DVD cover says that the film is in widescreen, which it certainly isn't. It does have small black borders, maybe the image is 1.40:1 or something. You often see events happening off the sides, and the (german) widescreen trailer on the disc clearly shows that it's pan-and-scan all the way.
The audio also jumps from chinese to english sometimes, and some scenes are totally without dialogue! Luckily it's all subtitled...
A couple of diving buddies find a mysterious box in the water outside of Macao. It turns out to contain vietnamese gold. They decide to return the gold, and if it's still there three days later, they think they can take it. One of the guys think it's a bad idea, and sneak back to take it. The gold though, is payment left for coming refugees, and the bad guys who want the gold are soon on the trail of the divers.
The action sequences are pretty bad, people do their one-two one-two moves as they've practised them. They block and duck ages before the corresponding attack has even begun, and sometimes they don't even look at each other. They just keep on going, one-two, one-two. The end scene in which Li kills the bad guy made me laugh out loud, because it's really crap. Li kicks the head off a mannequin and nobody over the age of three can take it seriously.
The story is somewhat interesting, but honestly we're watching a film like this for the action, and that's not much even on a Bruce Li-scale. His films are mostly more entertaining than this one.
My DVD cover says that the film is in widescreen, which it certainly isn't. It does have small black borders, maybe the image is 1.40:1 or something. You often see events happening off the sides, and the (german) widescreen trailer on the disc clearly shows that it's pan-and-scan all the way.
The audio also jumps from chinese to english sometimes, and some scenes are totally without dialogue! Luckily it's all subtitled...