![]() Snooty references to eating snakes evidence a discomfort with the behavior of a foreign country. Shatter's intolerance for international culture makes a few unexpected peeps from its veneer of acceptance. The apparently sensitive regret he feels for his victims comes off as a brooding doom with little real emotion backing it up. Carreras tries his best to present Whitman as a then-prevalent philosopher killer, but the weak introspective sequences that show Whitman roaming around his apartment fail to do the trick. ![]() International affairs gets somewhat sticky from here, and the bullets fly freely until the predictable climax. Without questioning the moral validity of his instincts, they help him in his quest to extort a mil from Diffring. He slips underground for a while but gets attacked at a martial arts invitational won by understated Ti. Whitman finds his apartment blown up so he takes refuge at his new friends' dojo. ![]() Corrupt government official Peter Cushing has his men beat the pulp out of Whitman, who stumbles off to a massage parlor where kung fu master Lung Ti treats him to a freebie from adorable Li-Li Li (whose name sounds like the refrain to a doo-wop song). Perpetually grouchy killer for hire Stuart Whitman fails goes to Hong Kong where he fails to collect from disreputable banker Anton Diffring. Shatter did not have the most inspired mixture and doesn't stand the test of time very well. Hammer helped define the gothic vampire genre, for which we should be thankful, but they also found need to dabble in other fields with mixed results.
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