Cantonese: Yung chong gong wu
Mandarin: Yong chuang jiang hu
English: Courageously Roaming The "Jiang Hu"

This Taiwanese production pulls out all the stops, mixing sophomoric comedy and frenetic action into a wildly uneven but entertaining mix. Cute kung fu dynamo Lin Hsiao-lin from CHILD OF PEACH (sic) and KUNG FU WONDERCHILD stars, and the opening reel features a fun recreation of a typical action sequence from those period fantasies. Hsiao-long (Lin) and her goofy inventor father (Yuen Cheung-yan, sporting ridiculous novelty teeth) head up a successful stunt team that specializes in bullet hits and explosions. In a pop culture collision one will never see in a Western feature, grade school age Ting-ting (tarted up like Madonna and dancing to "Material Girl") is kidnapped from a McDonalds by a thug wearing a Mickey Mouse costume! Her grandfather is a reformed mobster under pressure from an ex-associate to resume his old ways. Attempts are soon being made on the old man's life, so he hires Hsiao-long (who rescued Ting-ting) to stage his death at a lavish banquet. However, a traitor (Dick Wei) in the ranks puts everyone's life in danger for real.

Director Chiu Chung-hing clearly studied at The Chu Yen-ping School of Cinematic Insanity and A HEROIC FIGHT is filled to bursting with everything you can think of: car stunts, bicycle stunts, ridiculous Rube Goldberg-style contraptions, a bomb placed in an issue of Penthouse, exploding cigarettes, exploding ice cream cones, a send-up of the Taiwan hit sequence from A BETTER TOMORROW, a child involved in stunts that would have Western parents phoning their lawyer, a bicycle fitted out with deadly gadgets (including a gatling gun, missile launchers, and ejection seat!), killer snakes, high voltage death traps, and, of course, undercranked wire-enhanced fights galore (which go from comedic to brutally violent in the blink of an eye). The storyline is barely there (just as well, as the English subtitles rarely make a lick of sense) and the filmmaking is often sloppy, but no holds barred fun like this is simply not produced anymore in either Taiwan or Hong Kong. The equally wacky soundtrack includes cues swiped from ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, MANIAC, PHANTASM, SORCERER, and ALIENS, plus "Chung Kuo" from Vangelis' "China" album!

WA #D-DVD 2334 (Mainland China label) Dolby Digital 5.1 Post-synched Mandarin Language Track Optional Subtitles in English and Simplified Chinese 8 Chapters Illustrated In the Menu With Clips Letterboxed (1.86:1) Coded for ALL Regions 84 Minutes (at 25 frames-per-second) Contains brutal violence

DVD menu courtesy WA.

A HEROIC FIGHT is available at Poker Industries.