Everyone wants to kill Chung-Hsin Huang because that's their motivation. He wants to kill the man who killed his family, and that's his motivation.Feng Tien, the big, bad villain, wants 3000 taels of silver for killing Huang, because that's his motivation. He's also the guy who killed Huang's family. Got it? There's everything you need to know, or that you find out.
There's not much in the way of character exposition beyond getting these points across, because this is not that sort of movie. Instead, we get right down into action, with Huang killing some random people who want too kill him. Is done with a moving camera, a lot of cuts, and music that suggests Morricone's score for the "Man With No Name" trilogy. There are also references to other violent movies, defending the villagers like The Seven Samurai, or Shane, but not too many; this is not a movie about anything but The Good Guy against The Bad Guys, and there are a lot of bad guys for him to kill, so let's not waste any time.
Looked at in those terms, in the effort to make a competent potboiler, this movie succeeds very well.
There's not much in the way of character exposition beyond getting these points across, because this is not that sort of movie. Instead, we get right down into action, with Huang killing some random people who want too kill him. Is done with a moving camera, a lot of cuts, and music that suggests Morricone's score for the "Man With No Name" trilogy. There are also references to other violent movies, defending the villagers like The Seven Samurai, or Shane, but not too many; this is not a movie about anything but The Good Guy against The Bad Guys, and there are a lot of bad guys for him to kill, so let's not waste any time.
Looked at in those terms, in the effort to make a competent potboiler, this movie succeeds very well.