Samantha tames not only Peking Man but all wild creatures; at one point, director Ho Meng-Hwa conveys the idea that an elephant and a leopard are sad she's going away. During the action scenes, frenzied cutting induces that higher state of panic and vertigo that eludes more respectable fantasy films. The last third of the film is an all-out assault on modernity. No more cogent image of the idiocy of mass entertainment has been put on film than the scene in which a huge crowd gathers in a stadium to pelt Peking Man with candy and watch his tug of war with toy trucks.