Shaw Bros.
Directed by Meng Hua Ho
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
A man and his daughter take refuge with a mountain "herbalist" after his wife abandons them for the leader of a local gang. His special "golden sword" is also stolen by them, but he spends the next 20 years or so making a new, stronger one. His daughter grows up to be an extraordinary martial arts master and takes it upon herself to get revenge on the gang. Along the way she discovers the family skeletons. After a promising beginning, the plot gets bogged down in these family melodramatics, with only the occasional fight scene, or raging wildfire, to break the monotony. The long awaited showdown between the two swords for the finale is almost an afterthought at the very end.
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