The Dragon Missile (Chinese title: Fei long zhan) is a well-crafted Shaw Brothers martial arts feature, with Lo Lieh the wielder of the titular weapon, actually a pair of boomerang blades capable of decapitating opponents and returning to the user’s hands. Lo’s character, the henchmen of an evil nobleman, is sent to get a healing herb needed to cure the noble’s otherwise-fatal affliction. He’s scarcely sympathetic, however, and is consistently ruthless, and it takes time before the movie offers anyone to root for. Even then, despite good action sequences, rather too much time is spent on the villain’s adventures for the movie to be pleasing in the end.

  Mildly recommended. Otto judiciously thinks this movie is OK, but not great.

Movie 87 for 2021.