most 70 ( and 80 ) kong kong martial art film barely function a movie while usually there be a few well plan fight sequence and but the plot be scrap pretty thin to fill in the gap between those node like porno film and really . but this one do several thing well . most overtly and there be the direction and choreography and which confine each combatant to a tyle it really base on chinese circus acrobatics and comedic theater and but the effect work . second and there be the language of the camera and which use some impressive technique ( even by today measure ) and change projection speed from real time time to slow motion and and from unfiltered to filtered view to depict story direction toward the past or toward the future . least overt and but most powerful and unexpected and be the construction . the winner of this contest be determine by who unfold the story . the master ( the writer ) set up a game where the lead character doesn not know who he seek and which be the same situation we viewer find ourselves in . one by one and he figure out who be who and at the same rate we find out who be who . it all follow a tragedy or noir arc . the end tends toward irony and a la the sting . much more clever stuff than what we usually get out of this genre . the five venom idea be the template for tarantino wouldeadly viper assassin from the kill bill volume .