This film follows the recent tradition of setting Hong Kong actioners in a European location - in this case Germany. Unfortunately the director doesn't make any good use of the locale, and apart from the open spaces this may as well of been filmed in Hong Kong.


Jet Li is one of the Chinese Wushu team touring America. However, his chain smoking partner (Dick Wei) is jealous that Li has his youth and is therefore upstaging him. As a result of this Wei decides to stay in America and joins the local triad gang. Li's attempts to stop him are unsuccessful and he misses his plane.


A remake of King Hu's 1967 swordplay classic 'Dragon Gate Inn'. Two noble warriors (Tony Leung and Brigette Lin) rescue the children of a general murdered by an evil eunuch, and, while fleeing through the desert, take refuge at the Dragon Inn. Trapped there by bad weather, the heroes are kept on their feet when the enunuch's swordsmen arrive...


When an industrialist is sued by a woman who claims his factory is poisoning her fish farm, he hires attorney Jackie Chan to get her off his back. Chan recruits his old friends Hung and Yuen to spy on the woman: but when the three men discover that the industrialist is manufacturing narcotics, they switch sides and raid his factory.


The evil British and their treasonous Chinese henchmen are planning to smuggle the emporer's jade seal and other art treasures out of Manchuria, unless Wong Fei Hung (Jackie) can stop them with his drunken boxing. Teaming up with a Manchurian officer (Lau Kar Leung) the mischievous Wong must fight against the aggresors in a climatic battle set in a foundry works.


Michelle Reis plays a young maiden in desperate need to rendezvous with the Manchu general. If she presents him with a jade ring he will make her his queen. Trying to prevent this is a young nationalist revolutionary (Andy Lau). After clashing with Manchu guards Lau and Reis find safety in the house of Wong Kay Ying.

 

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