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The Young Avenger |
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Wong Yue works in a funeral parlor by day, hits the gambling houses by night, and very late at night robs the very graves he's dug the day before to support his losing streak. Wouldn't you know that once he turns his luck around at the tables, everything else falls apart? He's robbed of his first big haul by a roving gang and haunted by the restless ghost one of his dead victims. Now he's forced to undertake a mission of vengeance to right the wrongs done to the spirit. Wong Yue, the moderately charismatic star of numerous Shaw Brothers chop-socky adventures, is no Jackie Chan, but he's an impressive martial artist and when he decides to get really mean he's downright ferocious. It's an otherwise average Hong Kong revenge flick with stop-and-pose choreography and slapstick asides, but the highlights include a sexy silent stag reel and a lightning-paced finale in which our hero turns the tools of his undertaker trade into kung-fu weaponry. If you recognize the music, it's because it has been shamelessly lifted from the soundtrack of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite. I guess that's one way to get your movie an Ennio Morricone score. --Sean Axmaker
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