Angel With The Iron Fists: I have to admit that sometimes I will buy a movie for an actor or an actress or because of the film studio it was made at. With this film I felt I couldn't go wrong with a Shaw Brothers female James Bond spy film staring Lily Ho. Of course, I did go wrong and found a rather dull and boring film. There were some neat gadgets and the whole up to the minute fashions of 1966 were very mod and such but they could not keep my attention long.

Of course the worst part was the horrible soundtrack remixed and, I am sure, replaced when Celestial decided to "restore" the old Shaw library. It is mostly loud keyboard tracks with modern sound effects. This was, of course, par for the course on Shaw releases back in 2004 when this came out.

Luckily they have now learned the error of their ways and many films are being released with their original mono tracks (most important for me, the musicals) some are still getting the fake 5.1 sound. While there is much outcry online for films to be presented in the original aspect ratio, I think there should be equal outcry that all films be released with their original audio format.

Labels: Hong Kong