Dreadnaught (1981)
9/10
A wonderful assault on the senses
1 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Another brilliant film from a classic era full of them. Yuen Biao stars in his second lead role after KNOCKABOUT and does us proud, playing a young laundry washer who gets caught up in a plot involving the legendary Wong Fei Hung and a psychotic killer called White Tiger. An all-star cast feature in this one, from great comedy guys (Fan Mei Sheng, hi) to the peerless Phillip Ko and Beardy. The plot features near constant gags, stunts and wonderful fight sequences coordinated by the Yuen brothers. Easily as good as the kind of kinetic, brute-force-energy films that Jackie was making during the era, and it really deserves to be better known. The ending is pure class and had the tears streaming from my eyes!
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