"The Young Avenger" American DVD Cover
Director: Wilson Tong Wai Shing
Producer: Raymond Keung
Cast: Wong Yu, Wilson Tong Wai Shing, Norman Chu Siu Keung, Chu Tiet Wo, Cecilia Wong Hang Sau, Cheng Hong Yip, Kong Do, Fung King Man, Tong Kam Tong, Ching Chu
Running Time: 83 min.
By Numskull
I see little point in describing this movie in any great detail; I would just end up repeating myself. It’s a fairly typical chop socky flick with a protagonist who loafs at first but cleans up his act in order to take revenge on the bad guys. The twist, such as it is, is that he’s not doing it for his father or his mother or his grampa or his granma or his aunt or his uncle or his teacher or his wife or his girlfriend or his son or his daughter or his niece or his nephew or his neighbor or his dog; he’s doing it for this guy who was betrayed by the villains 17 years ago, got pushed off a cliff, and had his face eaten by ants. What I wanna know is, what took so long for him to start plotting some payback?
Thankfully, little time is wasted on unfunny comic relief, and the fighting, while far from the best I’ve ever seen, is serviceable. The final duel is pretty good and clocks in near the ten minute mark. This is followed by a whole four seconds of denoument. Thus concludes another unremarkable but moderately enjoyable old-fashioned kung fu movie. Now go away.
Numskull’s Rating: 6/10
