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From a contemporary reviews, Tony Rayns ("Monthly Film Bulletin") stated that the film was "the least romantic of Chang Cheh's evocations of heroism in unheroic times". Rayns commented that this film was "the first time that Chang Cheh and his regular collaborator [Ni Kuang] have found a plot mechanism to express the oppression as compulsive as the variations on the hero-model. They are well served by their admirable cast, several of them playing against established type; and barring the odd anarchronism, the dubbing is for once excellent."