Forget Apocalypse Now. To hell with Platoon. The world's best Vietnam movie is Sammo Hung's Eastern Condors, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a very rare 35mm print of this 1987 movie with its director and star, Sammo Hung, in the house.

Sure, it has all the expected Vietnam War movie elements: child soldiers, Oscar-winning actors (Dr. Haing S. Ngor, The Killing Fields), games of Russian Roulette, tiger cages, torture sessions and missions gone totally Fubar. But Sammo ups the stakes with a trio of female freedom fighters (one of whom is his wife, Joyce Mina Godenzi, who will also be at the festival), ten of Hong Kong's best action stars and some of the gnarliest fight scenes ever put on film.

1. The war is over, but the Pentagon brass can't sleep: they left a hidden stockpile of weapons back in Nam. The solution: two teams will be sent to destroy the abandoned arsenal. One, headed by mustachioed action stud, Melvin Wong, is made up of crack commandos who will blow up the missiles. The other, headed by Bruce Lee's stunt double, Lam Ching-ying, is made up of Chinese-American criminals who will provide a distraction. But the entire mission is screwed the minute boots hit the ground and Lam Ching-ying's team are hunted down like dogs by an elite Vietcong kill squad headed by Yuen Wah (Kung Fu Hustle) playing one of the most memorable screen villains of all time: a mincing, giggling, fan-flicking VC general who shrieks with petulant rage as he rips out shoulder blades.

Leavened with (very) black humor, Eastern Condors makes the Dirty Dozon look like a Girl Scout troop. Betrayals flow fast and bloody and heroes die like dogs. This is Sammo Hung's greatest directorial achievement, it's one of his own personal favorite films, and you'll never see anything like it again on the big screen. Because while we can put a man on the moon, climb the highest mountains, explore the deepest oceans and cure the worst diseases, we will never again make an action movie as awesome as Eastern Condors .