Amazon.com: This 1989 revival entry in the popular action-comedy series is solid and sure-footed thanks to director Lar Kar Leung (a.k.a. Liu Chia Liang), who was a major kung fu auteur for Shaw Brothers in the 1970s (Legendary Weapons of Kung Fu). Liu knows his way around an action sequence, and he brings in muscle-bound headbanger Conan Lee (as "the Chinese Rambo"), so there's a lot more grim clobbering and a lot less playful slapstick than in previous Aces films. The plotting is as thin as ever. The mostly round-eye "White Glove Group" of bad guys faces off against series mainstays Sam Hui and Karl Mak, with youth market idols Leslie Cheung and Nina Li Chi to enhance the demographic. The MacGuffins are a magical sword and a brace of stolen terra cotta warriors smuggled in from the Mainland. It's fun watching the bountifully upholstered Li Chi working out on a Nautilus machine (feel the burn), and an engagingly bizarre sequence has our hapless heroes tossed into a dungeon in the PRC, where jaunty political prisoner Danny Lee (the upright cop in John Woo's The Killer) shows them the ropes. --David Chute
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