Notice: This review may contain spoilers
Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao , friends since they met children in the Peking Opera school, sharing the stage during the 80 in movies like "Pirates of the seas of China "or " The 3 dragons . Biao is known of the three, at least for Western audiences, and often is associated with the films he intervened Chan, Hung or both. However, in his films alone, has enough interesting titles like this takes us.
"At the edge of the law" also known by the title of "Stronger than the law" , was directed by Corey Yuen in 1986 and Biao her debut as producer. It plays the Crown prosecutor Jason Chan, who after seeing two dangerous criminals are acquitted for lack of evidence after the assassination of key prosecution witness, decides to take justice into their own hands. Meanwhile the Inspector Cindy Si (Cynthia Rothrock ) will try to chase.
Other characters are more or less relevance to the plot are the inept fellow inspector, ( himself Corey Yuen), the father of this, played by veteran Wu Ma , a regular in the films of Jackie Chan and superintendent of police, who gives life Melvin Wong , another usual Hong Kong action film of the 80. We also have a martial arts experts and casual players Peter Cunningham and Karen Sheperd, with brief papers but noted for his fights with Yuen Biao and Cynthia Rothrock , respectively.
In this film we have good Hong Kong style fights, where the main characters show their skills. Yuen Biao shows his great talent for fighting, especially in the final fight takes place in a hangar. As Cynthia Rothrock, we can say the same thing. It's a shame that after wasting his talent in his American stage, in productions of lesser quality than those that took part in Asian stage.
Moreover, we must mention the viewer can freak out a bit by the contrast in the film and I mean that we comic moments featuring mostly by the couple Corey Yuen and Ma Wu , other moments of high drama, with an abundant number of deaths. In fact, in assembling the character of Hong Kong Cynthia Rothrock died at the end of the film. In the Western version survives but the protagonist ends up behind bars.
This film was once released on VHS in our country by Lauren Films today but still unreleased on DVD, which is a shame because the action movie fans should not miss, despite be a film that has aged badly.
best: fighting, such as Yuen Biao in the hangar or the Cynthia Rothrock with Karen Sheperd
worst: the uncertainty that produces its balance between comic and dramatic scenes
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