Righting Wrongs (1986)

Hong Kong kung-fu flick about a lawyer who turns vigilante after two crime bosses are sprung when a witness gets slaughtered, this is seriously uneven stuff, with great fight scenes mixed with a lazily laid-out plot, rampant '80s production values and that weird Asian-film tendency to jam-pack otherwise serious films with head-splittingly awful comic relief (this time around from an incompetent cop named Bad Egg). But just hang on until the last half hour, when the film belatedly finds its balls and follows its futility-of-vengeance thematics to the bitter end. Also, it's worth seeing just to find out why Cynthia Rothrock was considered such a big flying deal back in the '80s and early '90s; the scene where she restrains four men with one pair of handcuffs deserves some kind of special award or something.

Grade: B-