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Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

AaronCapenBanner Michael Carreras and Monte Hellman co-directed this crime/Kung Fu hybrid that stars Stuart Whitman as Shatter, an international hit man in Hong Kong who, after killing an African leader, finds himself double-crossed by his employers, and now forced to go on the run not only from them, but the police and the family of the African leader he killed. How can he survive this mess? Peter Cushing costars in a brief role. Perfectly awful film has nothing going for it; unappealing characters, uninteresting story, silly action scenes, and wastes Peter Cushing in his last film for Hammer studios. Only reason to watch this is if you're forced to buy the double-feature DVD for the other film!

inspectors71 I have almost no memory of this film, yet I'm writing a review. Go figure! I seem to remember Stuart Whitman as some sort of hit-man in Hong Kong. It was entertaining and badly dubbed and fairly gory; the sort of movie HBO used to fill up their schedule with when they weren't showing more traditional features and before they went off the air at midnight.My suggestion is to read the ten other reviews and, if this long-lost and forgettable Kung Fu/Spy flick piques your interest, rent it or buy a used copy.Enjoy!

movieman_kev Stuart Whitman (Tender Flesh, Eaten Alive, the "Superboy" TV show) is Shatter, an international hit-man who goes into hiding when he carries out the assignment of killing an African general that he thought was given to him by someone that it wasn't. Now everyone is gunning for him and he just wants the money owed to him. I usually dig Hammer films quite a bit, however this is one I just couldn't get into. It's just way to slow and badly acted to keep my interest. It felt like it would have been made into a TV show if it did better than it wound up doing. No big loss either way, in my opinion.Eye Candy: Some random Chinese girl shows T&A My Grade: D+ DVD Extras: Commentary by Ousted director Monte Hellman & Actor Stuart WhitmanThe World of Hammer episode: "Chiller"; 2 TV spots; and Theatrical Trailer

Matt Moses Hammer helped define the gothic vampire genre, for which we should be thankful, but they also found need to dabble in other fields with mixed results. Shatter did not have the most inspired mixture and doesn't stand the test of time very well. Perpetually grouchy killer for hire Stuart Whitman fails goes to Hong Kong where he fails to collect from disreputable banker Anton Diffring. Corrupt government official Peter Cushing has his men beat the pulp out of Whitman, who stumbles off to a massage parlor where kung fu master Lung Ti treats him to a freebie from adorable Li-Li Li (whose name sounds like the refrain to a doo-wop song). Whitman finds his apartment blown up so he takes refuge at his new friends' dojo. He slips underground for a while but gets attacked at a martial arts invitational won by understated Ti. Without questioning the moral validity of his instincts, they help him in his quest to extort a mil from Diffring. International affairs gets somewhat sticky from here, and the bullets fly freely until the predictable climax. Carreras tries his best to present Whitman as a then-prevalent philosopher killer, but the weak introspective sequences that show Whitman roaming around his apartment fail to do the trick. The apparently sensitive regret he feels for his victims comes off as a brooding doom with little real emotion backing it up. Shatter's intolerance for international culture makes a few unexpected peeps from its veneer of acceptance. Snooty references to eating snakes evidence a discomfort with the behavior of a foreign country. The background story sets this attitude in stone: Whitman's being tracked down for getting involved with political affairs in Badawi, a corrupt puppet country in Africa in which brothers contentedly murder brothers for money and power. Such situations may perhaps at time truly occur, but the same can be found in Shakespeare with less disapproval asked of the audience. The degree of acceptance present can be seen as a sense of tragedy, completely disconnected with the random slaying of evil black or Asian characters. I don't mean to push the point, but I found it odd that both major black characters were played no-name Yemi Ajibade in an otherwise internationally well-known cast. Cult director Monte Hellman apparently assisted Carreras, far more experienced as a producer, but did not receive credit. Writer Don Houghton produced the other Shaw/Hammer co-production, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and also takes credit for the awful but amusing Dracula AD 1972. Scenes allegedly shot in Badawi, a country that does not exist, were probably done in Hong Kong.