The most famous Venoms film outside of their debut, THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS. KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is a near plotless series of fight spectacles with a garish, comic strip feel to them. The larger than life characters are separated into heroes and villains, and the story is about a gold shipment waylaid by bandits. Each character has his own specialism with a big emphasis on weapon play throughout. Needless to say, the stars are at the top of their game here, at the peak of their athleticism. I particularly liked Lo Meng's titular badass and Phillip Kwok's drunken sheriff. Chiang Sheng has less to do, but then he was choreographing the fights, and Lu Feng is back to the spear play again. Violent, heavily stylised, thoroughly entertaining, this one.
Review of The Kid with the Golden Arm
