What starts out as a friendly lion dance soon turns ugly. Before you know it, kung fu experts Huang and Yinlin have decided to test their rspective skills- against someone OTHER than each other... Whoever scores the most punches the fastest, wins. Both men conspire with strangers to win, but the end result is a draw. Zhou then beats them both. The next day, after a brief interlude in a brothel, Yinlin is injured by a powerful fighter, Shan Xiong, who refuses to take a dive. Juying, Yinlin's sister, blames Huang. All of this leads to a close-quarters confrontation in the narrow confines of "Zig-zag Lane." Gordon Liu is as deft at comedy as he is drama or melodrama, and MARTIAL CLUB allows him to run the gamut. A solid seven.