Mai fu

⭐ Featured Review

"AMBUSH (1972) is a run-of-the-mill Shaw Bros. swordplay/kung fu film that suffers from a convoluted plot and a third-tier cast. But it offers a host of exciting fight scenes involving multiple opponents and it makes extremely effective atmospheric use of standing SB sets. In fact, the whole thing plays as if the director was given an assignment to use a certain group of non-star actors and construct a story to make use of sets left over from other films. The plot has to do with a shipment of jewels stolen when one security bureau ambushes and slaughters another and then frames the slain secur..."