This film opens with a bang: Cynthia Khan chases a car driver on foot in a garage, jumps and kicks him through the windshield (!), they start fighting, he runs, she chases him, they continue fighting in a very narrow alley, and they conclude their fight on not one but TWO moving vehicles, with a third one coming into play at the end. It's a sequence that lesser movies might have used as the climax, but here it's just the opener. The action and fight scenes are generally first-rate, and the notable stunts include a man crashing onto a car from a certain height (if the stuntman wasn't injured during that one, an angel must have been protecting him!), and Cynthia dangling from the edge of a skyscraper's roof (you can see the streets far below her). However, good as the action is, there is nothing in "ITLOD V" that can fully match the Dick Wei & Michiko Nishiwaki vs. Cynthia Khan or the Donnie Yen vs. Michael Woods climactic fights of parts "III" and "IV", respectively. And the plot is unnecessarily convoluted with multiple characters and never quite grabs you the way it should. Still, Cynthia in action is always worth seeing. Michelle Yeoh was largely unknown to Western audiences until her role in Jackie Chan's "Police Story III" - I wonder what might have happened if Jackie had picked Cynthia as his partner in one film. She's just as good and quick in action as Michelle, and prettier too (IMO). (**1/2)
(Note: as the other reviewer said, THIS is the fifth part of the ITLOD series, though if you search the title on IMDb it will lead you on a wrong page - just check the plot summary - with the right cover! Quite a mix-up)
