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Good movie, slightly goofy. It amuses me to no end that when a woman puts on men's clothing in one of these wu xia flicks (as a disguise this time), she's a man and that's that. It should also be THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS, but the hero(ine) of the movie is Lily Ho, who was definitely not a Golden Knight. Lily is an orphaned daughter determined to avenge her murdered father. The plot was another madman tries to take over the martial arts world (which never gets old). It was definitely of the old school wu xia movie. Lot's of trampolines, roof hopping (which has never really gone completely out of style), preternaturally deadly martial arts moves and a touch of chi. The movie actually has a nice fairly morbid/grotesque touch introduced about a quarter in that I won't spoil, because it ties into a major plot point.
The fights were all competent, but nothing special. Lily is better with a sword than without, though she might have gotten better in that regard in some of her later movies; I don't remember her doing much in the way of hand-to-hand martial arts in INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN. A good way to pass an evening; Lily's got the gender blender thing going on with Shu Pei-pei, the villains are dastardly and there are actually some Golden Knights in there.
7/10
