This sucks! Compared to most other martial arts movies. Well compared to the brilliant Iron Monkey 1. In conclusion, this movie fails as a sequel to Iron Monkey, but as just a kung fu movie, it's pretty good. The main problem is constant speeding up of the camera. The wires aren't overdone (a complaint made against the original Iron Monkey film). Billy Chow's kickboxing is impressive as well. Donnie Yen uses a lot of wing chun and his usual tae kwon do/wushu kicking. The fight scenes are really fast and high-energy. A lot of the story concentrates on a pair of con artists and a man looking for his father. The Iron Monkey character is not defined and really doesn't have a huge part in the movie. Billy Chow is made out to be a major character but doesn't appear until the end of the movie. There are a lot of characters in this movie, many of which don't seem to have a real place within the structure of the story. Donnie Yen replaces Yu Rong Gwong as the Iron Monkey and does battle w/ some corrupt warlords and arms dealers. The storyline takes place probably 40-50 years after the first one did. This one however, is a far cry from that status. So unfortunately, this one doesn't measure up to the original Iron Monkey in any ways, nor does it measure up to other Hong Kong movies of the same era.ĭonnie Yen returns in this "sequel" to the 1993 classic that was considered by many to be one of the best kung fu movies ever. Japanese are portrayed as the bad guys, and so are the Russians. Story is mostly about nothing - not much happens except for lot of dialogs between the actors. I've never seen the actors that starred in this movie before or since except Donny Yuen. It's like the '70s movie made in the '90s, and looks dated. The movie is shot very low quality, and other details are equally of lower quality. The production is very derivative with little bit of Jackie Chan's Project A, and other movies of this genre. It's a period piece taking place just before the second world war. This movie is made by a little known Hong Kong company called the Gold Rush. The two movies are not connected in any ways. In this, Donny Yuen plays the role of Iron Monkey. There was the first Iron Monkey that featured Chen Kuan Tai in the lead role.
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