KING EAGEL, though definitely stylized, isn't as grandiose as later Cheh efforts. As Jin Fei, Ti Lung comes across as very much a Wyatt Earp type of character: he's more than capable of killing more than his share of dumb***es when it comes right down to it, but he prefers the solitary, almost monastic life of a hermit. "Live and let live," and all that. When minding his own business doesn't quite work out and he finds himself getting caught up in the Tong intrigues of the treacherous Hung, he gives everyone an indication of just how wide a berth he should be given: he wipes out the band of thugs who killed his two best friends, tossing the leader of the raid onto a blazing pyre- while the man is still alive. Things heat up from there, and there's collateral damage aplenty. At one point, Lung battles Chen Hsing, who uses two razor-edged metal plates as weapons and there's a love interest in the form(s) of Li Ching as a pair of beautiful twins (which makes for some very good fx shots of the two sisters together), one good, the other not so good. Jin tells Yuk (the good sister): "If you have to get rid of villains, you shouldn't care who those villains are." I agree wholeheartedly.
Review of King Eagle
