Die Bruderschaft des Roten Drachen (1978)
57KDie Bruderschaft des Roten Drachen: Directed by Tso Nam Lee. With Jim Kelly, Sing Chen, Tao-Liang Tan, Nami Misaki. An American insurance investigator goes to Hong Kong to retrieve a famous diamond stolen by a local criminal organization.
“A friend of mine picked up this u0026quot;gemu0026quot; from one of those $2 DVD bins at the local supermarket. I was somewhat interested in seeing it, after all I did enjoy u0026quot;Enter the Dragonu0026quot; and wanted to see some more of Jim Kelly and Bolo Yeung. This flick falls short of the mark, but I canu0026#39;t quite put my finger on why. The dubbing is bad, the camera work is poor, and the script is extremely predictable (all of these things I expect from a cheesy kung fu movie), but there seems to be something missing from this piece of celluloid. It may be that between the ass beatings, utterly pointless nudity, and wah-a-chicka music thereu0026#39;s not much substance. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot is that thereu0026#39;s a diamond heist in Hong Kong by a gang (they all have the same tattoo, hence the title). Lucas (Jim Kelly) is called in by the insurance company to track down the diamond. Lucas seems to keep finding that his leads are killed off before he can get all the information that he needs. The other aspect of the story revolves around one of the gang members and his internal struggle with his loyalty to his boss and escaping the gangster life with his girlfriend. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStill the whole thing seemed to be thrown together kind of haphazardly. There are some good lines, decent kung fu action, and naked girls, but it still seems to lack something. The times between the action are really boring.”
