Two naive, though deadly proficient martial artists from mainland China travel to big bad Hong Kong to help out their beloved uncle (Chia Liang liu). Not long into their eventful visit when their heroically high-kicking cousin, Siu-Fung (Moon Lee) righteously Kung Fu's some drug dealing skells which puts them directly on menacing, apple crushing kingpin, Eddie's (Eddie Maher) kill list! Happily, the threadbare, predictably revenge-slathered plot is densely reinforced with an exhilarating plenitude of relentlessly manic martial arts mayhem! Once again, the jaw-droppingly beautiful mistress of gravity defying, mandible-mashing martial arts insanity is on fleet form in bullet-shredded HK action classic 'New Killers in Town'. Humorous interludes are atypically replaced with a darker tonality, there's an especially nasty moment wherein, Eddie's sadistic henchmen set fire to an ailing, wheelchair bound grandpa that feels somewhat gratuitous. Mind-boggling pugilistic awesomeness abounds in, Kar Yung-Lau's cult classic, with the final gonzo act being a bloody blitzkrieg of ribcage-wrecking bellicosity. The savage sinew-snapping showdown betwixt hatchet faced villain, Eddie and, Chia Lian Liu is an undeniably thrill-spilling eruption of unleavened power-bossage!
Review of New Kid in town
New Kid in town
(1990)
the final gonzo act being a bloody blitzkrieg of ribcage-wrecking bellicosity.
1 September 2023