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The stars of "Iron Monkey" return as Donnie Yen and Yu Rong Guang square off once again. This time Donnie is a doctor settling in a poor town, to take care of the needy villagers using his medical skills learned in the West. Unfortunately Yu Rong Guang and his axe gang want the village's land for a casino project. Also Throw in the fact that Yu Rong Guang's sister portrayed by the lovely Athena Chu, falls in love with Donnie after he restores her ability to speak. All this culminates into great martial arts action with an explosive end match between Donnie and Yu Rong Guang. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| Well, I wanted to get this film as I noticed the chinese symbols on the box proclaimed this as the new version of "The Big Boss" (XIN Tang Shan Da Xiong). However, there are very few similarities between the two movies. It is hard to believe that this could only be Donnie Yen's second directorial work as his techniques in the art of film-making are superb. The movie itself was rather slow in getting into fights after the opening battle, however, it wasn't "boring slow", but "dramatic slow" which I can handle much better! Donnie Yen's acting is outstanding and his emotions can rival Bruce Lee's in "Fist of Fury". Anyway, back to his directing. He uses up close "tight" shots in the vital fight scenes and sometimes uses diagonal angles in the tradition of Tsui Hark which I admire being an amateur film-maker. The final battle between Yen and Guang is outstanding, even if it is a tad short. However, Donnie Yen's super chain-axe twirling trick he uses in the end (that's all I can say...)was worth the 15 bucks I paid alone!!! This trick was probably an homage to Bruce's knife kicking trick in the Big Boss, as it has the same type of outcome...(hint, hint) Anyway, it's definitely worth a look... |
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