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鬼流星 (1971)
The Comet Strikes


Reviewed by: heinz Germany
Date: 05/26/2020
Summary: Sorry - I Can't stand Lo Wei's dominant fighting role

Once again Lou Wei couldn't resist to pose as a terrific fighter and thus degrade all his actors nearly to Extras in his fight szenes. But - Come on, my dear fellow! I can tell since watching all those many "Drunken Master" movies with the late Simon Yuen Hsiao-Tien, when through clever camera-angle (filming the fighter not facing the camera in fight scenes) and editing (frequently insert face close-up) make some cumbersome actors appear as agile fighters. This time Lo Wei seemingly takes on five heroes in the final fight, who after some sacrifice finally overcome him... I pity all those poor actors!

Lo Wei introduced Nora Miao as a female fighting actress 1971 within four swordplay movies,
(and 'paired' her with Patrick Tse Yin in all those) before relegating her to "Decoration" for his next new star Bruce Lee very soon. Sweet and cute she was always kind of miss-cast in those swordplay movies, lacking credibility as a fightress like next Golden Harvest star Angela Mao.(Another Lo Wei minion is missing here: James Tien Jun, who appeares in nearly 20 of Lo Wei's movies 1969-1979)

Having Chan Siu-Pang as fighting instructor (he brought along his pals Yeung Wei, Jason Pai Piao,
Chen Kuan-Tai - whose talents are completly wasted here) Lo Wei could probably not rely on the
support of the similar shaped Sammo Hung as a fighting double, who worked with Han Ying-Chieh
for Lo Wei before in "The Invincible Eight" (1971). Maybe experienced veteran actor Chow Siu-Loi was in demand as double for him..

With less Lo Wei self-presentation it would have been more enjoyable entertainment for me..




Reviewer Score: 6

Reviewed by: STSH
Date: 04/25/2013
Summary: Who is The Comet ?

Ah, Nora ! One of the great kung fu girls. With a strong cast, wu’xia swordspeople flying and hopping all over the joint, satin silk costumes flashing so bright you need sunglasses, and a haunted house with masked ghosts, who could possibly ask for more ?

There is evidently a lot of plotting going on. The first half is dense with long explanations, but it was very much lost on me, due to the lack of English subtitles. So the first half does rather drag along at times, though still watchable.

Proceedings evidently come to a head about two-thirds of the way through, when good guys happen upon an enormous tub-of-lard in green flowing silks. This is Lo Wai (also the director, writer, producer, presenter – he certainly wasn’t slouching in this picture !), doing a terrific impression of Orson Welles (except there were no flying leaps and swordfights in Citizen Kane). If there is a titular Comet, Lo is probably it. He bounces and flies around with the best of them, actually doing a sterling job of fighting the entire bunch of good guys.

More surprising still, Lo Wai does a fair amount of his own fighting. That is, he faces the camera much of the time, proving that, in those scenes at least, he wasn’t doubled.

Overall, a blast !

Reviewer Score: 7

Reviewed by: hkcinema
Date: 12/21/1999

Famed martial arts actor LO WEI directs this classic swordplayfavorite.

[Reviewed by Tai Seng Catalog]