The film directed by Lo Gin, stars Austin Wai, Chin Siu-ho, Deborah Sims, Eric Tsang, Blackie Ko & Yuen Wah, produced by Golden Harvest in 1987.
OUT OF THE VAULT:
THE FINAL TEST
There are times when you come across a relatively unheard of movie and read the synopsis and immediately want to nothing more than watch he film, and then there are the other times when the synopsis really doesn’t seem to be trying to get people to watch the film at all.
Just read the Rim Films catalog synopsis for The Final Test…
An ambitious young executive is happy when he lands a job managing a busy, modern factory. He is determined to keep productivity high and earn advancement, but the workers start to walk out faster than they can be replaced. In the course of discovering the reason, the young man learns there is more to succeeding in the real world than is taught in business school.Doesn’t really jump off the page and make you want to see the movie, does it?
Especially when the film is actually a sci-fi action thriller which borrows somewhat heavily from elements of mid 80’s sci-fi films such as Peter Hyam’s sci-fi western Outland, the original V series, and music that’s shall we say borrowed from such films as Escape from New York and The Terminator, and delivers a flawed but ambitious sci-fi martial arts hybrid.
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