Let's be realistic.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Blistering performances.

Wu Ma certainly paid attention working with Chang Cheh at Shaw Brothers and shows his competence in his second movie as director. Helen Ma is the title character and with little or no explanation she fights bandits and takes the loot of precious pearls. Many people are after her and the pearls but the worst is Shirley Wong Sa-Lee.Shirley plays the hot kung fu chick and shows a bit of skin at the dice table in the casino. Did I mention she was hot? She was hot. All around good guy Tang Ching plays the all around good guy here but without any martial arts skills. The plot is needlessly complicated by more people showing up to get the pearls or revenge. The fights are good and the action is plentiful. Overall above average for the year and genre.