Rating: C
Dir: Corey Yuen
Star: Joyce Godenzi, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Sammo Hung, Carina Lau
[22] This blast of largely revenge-driven cinema stars Joyce Gaudenzi (who is Mrs. Samo Hung – he has a minor role here) as Mina, a cop who marries into a whole family of police, but finds trouble being accepted by her sisters-in-law, who resent her getting promotion over their brother. Things go from bad to worse, after she kills a Vietnamese criminal and becomes the target for retaliation, and from worse to utterly dreadful when it’s her husband who ends up getting murdered. Time for her own revenge, methinks. The action is good, yet sits awkwardly with the dramatic elements, and the scene which will stay in my mind has Mina at her mother-in-law’s birthday party, trying desperately not to let on about her husband’s death. It’s all rather too relentless, and this one catches fire only occasionally when compared to Gaudenzi’s superior, albeit much lighter, Licence to Steal.