		Year: 1994 Director: Lau Kar Leung Starring: Lau Kar Leung, Andy Lau, Simon Yam, Michelle Reis Genre: Action/martial arts Literal title translation: 'Drunken Fist III'

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. He orders his son Wong Fei Hung (Lee Tien San) to escort them to more nationalist patriots who plan to overthrow the Manchu's.

Lau Kar Leung assembled the cast for this film after he parted company with Jackie on the set of Drunken II. As a result this feels very rushed and does not live up to it's prequel. The direction is very disjointed and does not do the locations or the actors justice. Lee Tien San makes a very uncharasmatic Wong Fei Hung and shows that his turn in the brilliant 'Burning Paradise' was a fluke. The main problem though, is that Lau Kar Leung has given all the fighting roles to the non-martial artists. The person who actually comes off looking best in the fight scenes is Andy Lau! Also, director Lau has favoured rather lacklustre hand techniques as opposed to kicking and the fight scenes, although inventive in parts, never really take off. It is hard to care about the characters when they are given just weak comedy routines to develop themselves and it is unfortunate that Lau did not spend more time on his vision. He has many followers worldwide waiting for him to do with the modern kung fu genre what he did for Shaw Brothers in the 70's. However, by delivering films like this Lau shows that his golden days are over and perhaps his techniques of kung fu filmmaking are indeed outdated.

If you are a fan of Lau Kar Leung you will still want to watch this to see him in action but unfortunately this is not a film that will stick in your memory. After seeing it once there is little reason to watch it again. Also, for a film called Drunken Master III there's not much drunken boxing on display!