John Woo directs Damian Lau, Wei Pai and Bonnie Ngau in this Kung-Fu flick about two swordsmen hired to avenge a scheming local merchant.

A solid martial arts flick with two standout action sequences. A fight involving spitting alcohol in a tomb full of candles and another involving a narcoleptic master. This lacks the knockaround slapstick of its contemporaries but is interesting as an early work of John Woo. There are hints of cherry blossom symbolism, the heroic bloodshed dynamism and the romantic male bonding of his later, more famous movies.

6