That's one heck of a Badass Family!
New Killers in Town, also known as New Kids in Town or the rather odd title, Master of Disaster, is a 1990 Hong Kong action movie directed by Lau Kar-leung (who co-stars in the movie as well) starring Chin Siu-ho (Tai Chi Master), Andy Cheng, and Moon Lee.
The brothers Chi-ho and Chi-shing, having completed their training at a Beijing Military Academy, returns home to Hong Kong where their younger sister, Siu-fung (Moon Lee) and father (director Lau Kar-leung) awaits, and both brothers hopes to find a better career after graduation from military school. But when the brothers ends up getting involved in drug smuggling ring led by mob boss Eddie, they have to fight their way out.
Fun fact: One of the international release special editions, titled Master of Disaster, has three additional scenes in the movie, which is spliced from the unrelated Jackie Chan movie The Protector. Jackie Chan does appear a few times in the stock footage, overlapping with The Cameo as Chan's characters NEVER interacts or even shared screentime with the main cast (which is understandable, since that's footage from a whole different film altogether).
New Tropers In Town:
- The Cameo: Jackie Chan in the Master of Disaster edition of the film.
- Chekhov's Skill: Chi-ho's ability to gather all his muscles in his neck, making his throat completely impenetrable to sharp weapons. It saves him from being stabbed through the throat when Eddie tries to shove a sharp bamboo pole in an attempted Impromptu Tracheotomy attack.
- Clothing Damage: When Eddie fights against the father, the father whips out a short cane as an Improvised Weapon... which can inexplicably shred clothing with a single swish. Five seconds into the fight Eddie's coat is in shreds, causing Eddie to furiously rip off his coat for a Walking Shirtless Scene.
- Cool Old Guy: Chi-ho, Chi-shing and Siu-fung's father, played by director and veteran action choreographer Lau Kar-leung, who can kick a ton of ass in the final battle and even killing the Big Bad, Eddie personally.
- Designated Girl Fight: Between Siu-fung and Sophia, Cheung's right-hand woman.
- The Dragon: Cheung, to Eddie, who carries out most of Eddie's direct orders and is seen leading the mooks. Naturally, the brothers have a beef with him instead of Eddie since Cheung is the one who kidnapped their sister Siu-fung after threatening her repeatedly.
- Faux Action Girl: Siu-fung, a somewhat rare example involving Moon Lee. Being played by the B-grade action film Baroness, Siu-fung does have the prerequisite Moon Lee fight scenes, but those are all against faceless mooks and nameless randoes, and when she faces off against Cheung or Eddie, she gets beaten up rather easily. Her contribution in the film is merely to be captured (twice!) for her brothers Chi-ho and Chi-shing to go on the Roaring Rampage of Rescue setting up the finale.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: Cheung beating and flogging an underling of his... using three bottles. Which he smashed on the underling's arms and head, the last hit which kills said underling.
- Machete Mayhem: Plenty of characters, from Chi-ho and Chi-shing, and faceless mooks, uses machetes as weapons to slice and dice. Chi-shing actually gets to do some machete Dual Wielding in the final scene.
- Nerd Glasses: On Chi-shing, the younger brother. But when the going gets tough (such as getting a punch which breaks half of his specs), then The Glasses Come Off as Chi-shing flings his specs aside and start kicking serious ass.
- I Have Your Wife: Siu-fung ends up being captured by Eddie, where her brothers Chi-ho and Chi-shing have to attempt a daring rescue in the climax.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Cheung, after falling forward, right into Chi-shing's elbow blade which he held upright deliberately.
- Knows the Ropes:
- One of Siu-fung's few fight scenes have her using a rope as an Improvised Weapon against Eddie's mooks, which she uses as a whip to beat up plenty of opponents.
- In the final action scene when the Not Quite Dead Eddie tries to ambush Chi-ho and Chi-shing, their father quickly throws a small pistol tied to a rope at Eddie, which the confused Eddie catches... just as the father pulls the rope attached to the trigger. Cue Boom, Headshot!
- Nothing Up My Sleeve: Chi-shing's final battle against Cheung, where he is seemingly on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle... but being a Combat Pragmatist, Chi-shing packs a spring-jacked blade attached to his elbow, which pops out and slices up Cheung.
- Papa Wolf: When Siu-fung gets captured by Eddie and his mooks, her father personally joins the fray, beating up legion upon legion of mooks with ease, and even giving Big Bad Eddie a hard time. And killing Eddie at the end of the fight.
- Pool Scene: Eddie's introduction have him in his mansion's swimming pool rising out of the water, allowing for a rare male Sexy Surfacing Shot.
- The Precarious Ledge: A chase scene between Chi-ho, Chi-shing and several mooks occurs on a ledge some several storeys about ground level, where they end up jumping from one ledge to another while mooks tries chasing after them.
- Pretty Little Headshots: On Eddie. Delivered by the brother's father. Using a rope.
- Retired Badass: Siu-fung's father, played by director and action veteran Lau Kar-leong. Who when pushed beyond the boundary, can easily kick shade after shade of ass, as Eddie found out the hard way.
- Rule of Pool: After Eddie's introduction near his private swimming pool, a failed underling reports of him allowing the brothers Chi-ho and Chi-shing to escape. For his efforts, the underling ends up getting the snot beaten out of him before being shoved into the pool.
- Shout-Out: During the fight scene between Eddie and the father, the soundtrack of Once Upon a Time in China can be heard... just as the father imitates a few moves from Master Wong Fei-hung.
- Sinister Shades: On Eddie, the Big Bad. Constantly.
- Soft Water: Siu-ho, being pursued by henchmen to the edge of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge, and facing pistol-wielding enemies pointing guns on him, ends up jumping off the bridge some few hundred meters into the Bay of Hong Kong. He survives the fall.Henchman: "Huh, didn't expect him to jump like that... lets go. He must be dead after this."(Cue Gilligan Cut showing Chi-ho resurfacing on a beach nearby Hong Kong, alive)
- The Snack Is More Interesting: Eddie is constantly seen munching an apple in several scenes. In one of them, an underling brings him bad news, at which point Eddie responds by crunching the apple into bits with only one hand.
- Would Harm a Senior: Eddie gleefully orders his minions to rough up an old man on a wheelchair for getting on his bad side, and his minions gleefully obeys. Including beating the snot out of the old man, dousing him in paint thinner and setting him on fire.
- Would Hit a Girl: Cheung, who had no qualms attacking Siu-fung, as well as Siu-fung's close friend Mimi, a non-combatant and civilian, the the extent of killing Mimi by kicking her backwards, smashing her head through a thick glass window.
