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The
Blonde Fury |
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AKA:
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Lady
Reporter, Righting Wrongs 2 |
Chin Siu-Ho, Cynthia Rothrock and Mang Hoi |
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Year:
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1989 |
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Director:
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Mang
Hoi |
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Producer:
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Corey
Yuen Kwai |
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Action:
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Mang
Hoi, Corey Yuen
Kwai |
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Cast:
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Cynthia
Rothrock,
Elizabeth Lee
Mei-Fung, Chin
Siu-Ho, Mang Hoi,
Roy Chiao, Billy
Chow Bei-Lei, Ronny
Yu Yan-Tai, Chung
Fat, Gwaan Chiu-Chung, Melvin
Wong Kam-Sum, Wu Ma,
Tai Bo, Miu Fung-Yee,
Ga Lai, Jeff Falcon, Vincent Lyn, Peter Ngor Chi-Kwan |
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The
Skinny: |
Decent action highlights
this average, unspectacular but still somewhat entertaining
eighties brawler. Starring Cynthia Rothrock. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Cynthia
Rothrock is Cindy, an FBI agent sent undercover in Hong
Kong to crack a counterfeiting ring. She pretends to
be a reporter to bag the bad guy, but runs afoul of
a mousy rival reporter (Mang Hoi), a cop disguised as
an insurance agent (Chin Siu-Ho), and various kung-fu
baddies (including Billy Chow). She also incurs the
ire of the local cops, and even her pal Yu (Elizabeth
Lee), who thought she was just a buddy and not an undercover
law enforcer. However, all manufactured conflicts are
derailed when Yu's dad (Roy Chiao), the prosecuting
lawyer in the counterfeiting case, gets kidnapped. Fighting
and typical HK shtick ensues.
As an example of Hong
Kong's fighting female genre, The Blonde Fury
does its job well enough. Cynthia Rothrock dispenses
with bad guys in a convincingly tough manner, and whatever
she lacks in the acting or screen presence department
is shored up her co-stars. There are a couple of entertaining
action sequences, including a sequence on some bamboo
scaffolding, as well as a short brawl between Rothrock
and Billy Chow. Sadly, the ending is an anticlimactic
set piece on a cargo truck, and there really isn't a
brutal knockaround ala She Shoots Straight or
In the Line of Duty 4. This is decent passable
entertainment, but it's not really much of a film. Then
again, the same argument could be applied to 90% of
the films released in Hong Kong during the eighties.
(Kozo 2003) |
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Availability:
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DVD (Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Fortune Star / Deltamac
Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
Dolby Digital 2.0
Removable English and Chinese Subtitles |
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image
courtesy of Deltamac Co., Ltd.
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