1970 · martial-arts · action · revenge
Vengeance!
Directed by Chang Cheh1h 42m1970
A violent martial artist is bent on avenging his older brother, who was killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.
Our read: Vengeance! (1970) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded martial-arts · action · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme martial-arts / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
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“You want classic Shaw Brothers kung fu revenge with brutal martial arts and blood.”
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