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Bruce Li as a chauffeur, and NO Kato mask!, 17 February 2006

Author: Damon Foster (damonfoster@earthlink.net) from Bay Area, CA

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For pure entertainment, this HK movie entertains, and that's the bottom line. I admit to enjoying cheap kung fu movies of the late 1970s, and most of the time, I'm not too ashamed of this. There are long gaps between the kung fu skirmishes, but because protagonist Bruc Li endures injustice and an occasional beating, it's hard not to cheer him on when he finally lashes out with his trademark tae kwon do kicks. This was the middle of his career, so he's beyond his Bruce Lee phase and allowed to flex his own muscle.

Li is a chauffeur, whose employer turns got framed for drugs & executed (via Malaysian firing squad). It's a suspenseful mystery, as Li gets accused of being involved with the drugs (which he's oblivious of), and how the dealer's deceitful, gold-digging widow fights to change her husband's last Will & Testament. The wife is pretty unlikeable (so we shed no tears when she commits hari-kiri near the climax), but is played by the beautiful Dana Tsen (INFRAMAN, IMAGE OF BRUCE LEE), here credited as "Danna". While she fools around and even goes topless briefly, Li rescues his kidnapped girlfriend (Michelle; no last name in credits) takes care of the dead man's son, and also wastes mobsters sent by the evil Mr. King (Yasuaki Kurata), somehow involved in the whole conspiracy. The bad English version might dissuade some people from watching this fairly decent movie. Though it's well written with interesting characters, it features the same familiar voices which have been in countless inferior films-- so there are those who might not give EDGE OF FURY A CHANCE. Also, the lack of a few full names ("Danna", "Michelle") in the credits makes it seem amateurish. Complete with the standard bell-bottoms, this average kung fu movie is amusing.

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