Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Review: I quite enjoyed this authentic movie which sees a young Jackie Chan (Hsiao Hu), take on a bunch of village bullies who are causing havoc around his small town. He plays a young waiter who has a unique Kung Fu skills, which he uses to tackle the bullies who find it hard to beat him. The bullies soon get fed up with Hsiao and they start to take advantage of his loved ones, which just gets him more upset and sends him on a path of vengeance. The only problem is that Hsiao's father forbids him to use his Kung Fu skills to defend himself and he is constantly punishing him for fighting in there village but when the bullies go a step too far, he gives him his blessing to take out the crime kingpin who has caused trouble in his life before. I really tried my hardest to get into this movie because you can't read the subtitles on the DVD and the bonus subtitles only pop up every now and again. I managed to piece the main parts of the storyline together but I missed a lot of the dialogue, which is a shame because the film isn't that bad. With that aside, it's not the greatest action that I have seen from Chan but for his age, he really does show that he has a promising future in action movies. His acting isn't too bad and there are some emotional scenes, which he performed quite well but the whole look of the film pretty bad. For entertainment, it's a watchable movie, if you get a dubbed version, and the epic fight at the end is worth a watch so for its time, it's actually not that bad. Watchable.Round-Up: This movie was directed by Hoi-Fung Ngai who only directed this movie and the Witch in 1975. For the time, he done quite a good job with bringing an authentic action movie to the big screen but the dodgy camera work near the end, really does need a remastering.I recommend this movie to people who are into their action/martial arts movie starring Jackie Chan, Biao Yuen, Pei-Pei Shu and Hung Lieh Chen. 4/10

This was Jackie's first lead role filmed (partly) in 1971 and originally called The Little Tiger of Canton. Jackie's father is killed in a feud between triad gangs leaving his young orphaned son to grow up, learn kung foo and avenge the death of his father. The problem is half way through the filming the director and producer did a runner leaving the actors unpaid and the movie unfinished. In 1978, after Jackie had become famous with Snake in the Eagles Shadow and Drunken master the film was finished using a dodgy Jackie look-alike. They even go to the extent of fighting blindfolded in order to hide his face. It's a shame because to spite the obvious low budget and poor script I found it fairly entertaining up to that point. So be warned unless your happy with half a Jackie Chan film (and not his best by any means)I wouldn't recommend paying the price of DVD to see it.

very early Chan. interesting to see jackie so young, but not great by any standards. unless HUGE chan fanatic (like me), skip it. i really dont like simon yuen, aka drunk old man with stick. a lot of people do, but i cant see why. in all of his movies (that ive seen), he plays a drunk old man with a stick. oooooo. anyway, if you really like chan, you owe it to yourself to check it out

I think the best reason to watch this film is to see an early example of Jackie Chan's work. I was not very impressed with this film on its own. The plot seemed to be too disoriented and choppy. The quality of the dubbed voices on this film are miserable. There is not much chance to build sympathy for the characters that get killed or hatred for the villain.Jackie Chan's later style combines traditional martial arts fighting with some of the same beautiful comic style also used by Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin and Gene Kelly. Bits and pieces of this show up in Snake Fist Fighter. The movie is probably worthwhile for Jackie's fans who want to see how much he has developed over the 27 years of acting.