An ageing assassin acts in Africa then goes to claim his payment for the killing from a Hong Kong banker but falls foul of the syndicate instead. A decent enough thick-ear with lots of martial arts, as this was a Hammer/Shaw Brothers co-production, and filmed colourfully on location in Hong Kong. Stuart Whitman growls as Shatter adequately. Even better are Peter Cushing as a cynical security chief called Rattwood, Anton Diffring as the perfidious paymaster Hans Leber and the great Ti Lung as Shatter's bodyguard Tai Pah. The latter three keep the movie interesting. Familiar actors from the Hong Kong film industry, many uncredited, pop up now and then. Music composer David Lindup proves he isn't Lalo Schifrin. Easy to watch and easy to forget.
Review of Shatter
