Eat My Dust is a typical example of Hong Kong fare in its heyday with sometimes jarring tonal shifts between extreme violence and dopey comedy, but it's all fairly amusing with various fights throughout, rounding out with an action-packed and stunt-filled finale that redeems any shortcomings before it.
I finally manage to snag a the long out of print Tai Seng DVD "Eat My Dust" on ebay, after so many years of reading about this move and wanting to see it due to one reason and one reason only: Cynthia Lam.
I first saw Cynthia Lam on laser disc in Passionate Killing in a Dream, with I saw for mainly Michiko Nishiwaki but Cynthia Lam was a genuine unknown surprise from that film that stuck with me - very pretty with lightning quick martial arts kills reminiscent of Moon Lee that had various slickly choreographed fight scenes.
Unfortunately she Cynthia didn't make that many movies. It appears she was a Taiwanese actress I think as her movies were all Taiwanese. So I was excited to finally get my hands on a copy of Eat My Dust, which featured Cynthia.
The violence wasn't too much, though it's fairly violent. There are some nicely choreographed fight scenes throughout. There's a kitchen sink finale that shoulsd satiate action junkies. There's a funny but unfortunate Indiana Jones moment with Cynthia Lam at the end, a wasted opportunity.
Hong Kong mainstays Shing Fui On, Eric Tsang, Tai Bo all make appearances.
The video quality of the DVD was merely OK and watchable on a 4k TV - it was only full screen, but when I zoomed into widescreen on my TV fortunately everything looked fine and not too cropped. The audio was dubbed English, but it was actually an OK dub, not too annoying. Somewhere there has to be some laserdisc somewhere of "Drug Tiger" in the original widescreen aspect ratio and language tracks.
Overall, a forgettable gem from Hong Kong's action cinema past.
