Revengeful Swordswoman (1979)

AKA: Revengeful Swordswomen

Director: Artis Chow

Cast: Chia Ling, Man Kong Lung, Wong Hap, Chuen Yuen, Wang Shui, Tung Li, Chang Chi Ping

Running Time: 86 min.

Plot: A girl with a sword wanders around and fights people.

Availability: This title is available at HKflix.com

NUMSKULL'S REVIEW: Utterly vacuous, "throwaway" kung fu fare that starts, apparently, at the climax of a fight scene in which the heroine gets pushed off a cliff that looks to be about 200 feet tall, and is totally unharmed upon landing. Then, she gets placed in a wooden cage by her martial arts instructor, who killed her father. Seething, she vows revenge. Then, a guy in blue comes along and stabs Master, and she cries with grief. (Must have been that time of the month.)

Then, she starts calling herself "The Heartless Lady", even though she spares the lives of everyone she beats in combat and then sends them on their way with some good-natured advice. A guy who throws rocks tags along with her and gets the spotlight in a mean-spirited and totally out of place brothel scene. Eventually there's a fight involving all the major characters and the movie decides to end.

Pure crap. Avoid like the plague. No, wait, that's too cliched. Avoid like the gum disease known as gin-gi-vi-tis. Yeah, that's the ticket.

NUMSKULL'S RATING: 2/10