Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah play the last Ming Emperor's top bodyguards. YB is ordered to capture or kill YW after YW goes crazy and commits murders and rapes. They have a great Wuxia fight scene on a snow-covered mountain before falling off a cliff together. Modern-day Chinese scientists find the frozen pair and soon the two of them are alive and free in modern-day Hong Kong. The comedy plotline starts here with YB getting shelter and education from the Maggie Cheung character, a cocky callgirl with Triad troubles. While YB is learning not to drink out of toilets, YW is becoming a rising star of the Triad world. Once YB discovers that YW is also alive the comedy plotline crashes to a halt. YB and YW hunt each other with seriously violent intent and MC learns about virtue, responsibility, love, etc. Wonderful big bullet-ballet/wire-fu fight between the two Yuen's in the finale.

During a rooftop fight sequence Clarence Fok throws in a shot of YB performing a flying kick across the screen as a 747 descending on HK airport crosses the screen behind him in the opposite direction. Fok and his crew fill the movie with nice shots, interesting colors, and nice editing.

This movie is a must-have for Yuen Biao fans.

A sword fight in the beginning, a dull mass beating a little later on, one-half of a shootout in the embryo stage, and the baddie catching bullets and flicking them back at their originators like freshly-picked boogers. That's what there is to sustain the viewer until the end, where we're treated to a fairly cool "how-far-do-you-dare-to-plummet" stunt and the two Yuens go at it tooth and nail in a fight scene which is remakrable not only because the rest of the movie is a snore, but also because it perfectly illustrates the fact that Yuen Biao's physical abilities are right up there with those of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, the two older "brothers" whose careers have unjustly overshadowed his for far too long.

Sorry folks, but a good ending fight does nothing to remedy such a lame story, nor does it single-handedly boost the movie from the status of the 98-pound weakling who gets sand kicked in his face at the beach to that of the guy who does the kicking. The Iceman Cometh is a weak link in Yuen Biao's cinematic chain.

My only real gripe with this movie is the nastiness of the truly evil Wah character. His brutal murder-rape scene that just doesn't belong in this kinda movie mars all the light moments. He plays his character way over-the-top in most of his scenes. Agreed, many of us enjoy HK cinema because of its audacity and ability to mix genres and tones, but the brutality of the scene, much of it shown onscreen, is simply much too shocking.

Finally, the opponents discover each other and the fight begins (there are a couple of doozies this one). There is one featuring both Yuens fighting on top of a car hanging from a crane, a sword duel at the beginning, and the end fight that makes use of guns, swords, and then hand-to-hand combat. The combatants during the end fight take some nasty falls (none using stunt doubles!). It is a truly spectacular sequence that I would compare to Drunken Master 2.