*Spoilers*
The final showdown between Jack Lam and Dragon Lee against Tiger So is very good, if only because this is one of the few parts of the film in which Hwang Jang Lee fights.
Jack Lam and Dragon Lee try to adopt different strategies to defeat Tiger So; one of Dragon Lee's is to move his feet about a lot and make stupid noises, which, unsurprisingly, fails miserably.
Jack Lam then has a go at Tiger So, and ends up trying to fight him with a cannon ball, or something. Having the ball knocked out of his hand, Jack Lam remembers a scene earlier in the film, which seemed seemingly useless at the time, in which Jack Lam threw a marble at the wall, then another marble at that marble, then the marbles somehow bounced off of all the walls and returned to their original position. Applying this strategy to a single cannon ball, he launches it against the wall and it bounces all around the room, which does nothing but makes Tiger So jump over it a few times and ultimately kick it into the air and kick it in two fairly impressively. Bugger.
After trying to set Tiger So on fire, they find out he is working with ninja magic! How to deal with that? Luckily Susan, for some reason, knows that Tiger So's weakness is... dun, dun duuuuun: Her chest. After flashing her womanly bosom to Tiger So, he is weakened, and so it is the heroes' chance to finish him once and for all, in as ridiculous a way as possible.
Tiger So defeated, a scene of the four main characters walking across the screen, with happy music playing, turns into a big red "The End" screen.
Note: Hwang Jang Lee is defeated in a similar way in a really cool film, that I don't own, unfortunately, named Ninja in the Dragon's Den, by, as one of the characters puts it, "Japanese tits!" So, if you ever meet Hwang Jang Lee on the street and he tries to kidnap your fiance or bury your kung fu style, then open your shirt and let him have it.
Positive Points:
+ Hwang Jang Lee
+ The fighting is very good.
+ Unlike most films by the same makers, it's actually good, and not just good in the sense of being really bad.
+ The intentional jokes work well, and the unintentional jokes due to the dubbing are good too.
Negative Points:
- The dubbing is very bad.
- Very few of the characters are named.
Of the 11 Joseph Lai/Godfrey Ho films I own, Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger is easily my favourite. One of the few actually good films by these makers, along with Blood of Dragon Peril, Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger is not to be missed, if not only for the presence of Hwang Jang Lee and Dragon Lee's energetic lunacy. The only thing that really detracts from the film is the dubbing, which does the film absolutely no justice.
9/10
Humour Scale: 2 Johnny Chans / 3 Jackie Chans.
