His friend David Ko (director Teddy Robin Kwan) tricks the SF writer and international adventurer Wisely (Samuel Hui) into helping him steal a strange artifact known as the Dragon Pearl for gangster boss Pak Kei-Wei (Ti Lung!) from a group of Nepalese monks.
When good old honorable Wisely realizes that the monks he and David acquired the pearl from aren't the evil man-eating meanies David made them out to be, he swears to bring the artifact back to them.
With the help of Pak's sister Sue (Joey Wang), Wisely goes to work. His life would be a lot less difficult if he'd only have to keep the gangster (who is after all played by Ti Lung and therefore basically honorable) at bay. Unfortunately, a certain Howard Hope (Bruce Baron) from Egypt and his sometimes colourcoded henchmen are also quite interested in the object.
The Legend of Wisely is a prime example of the troubles with competence. Everyone taking part in the production does basically a decent job. You can't really criticize any single element of the film for being bad, it's just that the film composed of these elements is not very exciting at all. As a film based on I Kuang's (or whatever his name was that week) Wisely character, Legend lacks the sweet siren call of total, bat-shit insanity that makes other films in the cycle like The Seventh Curse or The Cat so much fun. Instead we get some solid action sequences and a plot that makes a certain amount of sense.
It's just too bad that this is something you can get from a lot of other movies, delivered in a more exciting form.
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