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Release Date: 13 June, 2000 Retail Price: $29.95 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Iron Monkey Reviews
more like Wired Monkey
This is wire-fu all the way. Lotsa flying, floating, & fighting. Yuen Woo Ping directs another good one with Donnie Yen looking cooler and acting badder(as in bad-ass badder, not bad-acting badder) then ever. Yu Rong Guang is dignified as our hero and the young Wong Fei Hung(actually played by a girl) character has her, I mean his, own fight scene. Most fights are fairly brief but exciting and fun. Some fights are sped up, but that only adds to the hyper and frenetic feel to the movie. Overall, a good movie, some great scenes, but I felt the much praised final fight on top of the wood poles was disappointing. I'd much prefer to see an all out straight-up fight...Btw, I would give this film 5 stars, but it's no Drunken Master 2 or Fist of Legend. Note: this review is for the HK subbed version that I saw. I have no idea how the US dvd version of the American release will turn out. I shudder at the thought. But hey, if you liked it in the theaters, then get the dvd here.
Great Movie
I originally saw this movie on a bootlegged Chinese videotape, shortly after it was released in its original version. My friend had an overseas connection, and we watched lots of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, and Donnie Yen movies before they became popular over here. Of course, we couldn't understand a word of them, but we enjoyed the action sequences nonetheless.
Then, earlier this year while I was renting as many HK action flicks as I could on DVD :) I found a copy of Iron Monkey as a DVD rental, and watched it again with subtitles. I was very pleased to find that I was able to follow the story pretty well (unlike alot of cheesy HK action flicks). So, not only did it have great action, but it had a great plot as well.
Now, thanks to the popularity of Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix, CTHD), Iron Monkey is coming to theaters, and I'm definitely interested in seeing it on the big screen. That will complete some sort of odd Iron Monkey trifecta for me, I guess. heh
I just hope that Yuen Wo Ping doesn't start turning out really cheesy American flicks like Jackie Chan did after his success (Ok, Rush Hour was good, but what was up with Shanghai Noon?). Or like Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, John Woo, or like Wo Ping's brother has done with Charlie's Angels 2000. It must be the curse of Hollywood that these guys are such great talents but are completely wasted when they come to America. Let's hope that Wo Ping can keep cranking out material on the order of The Matrix.
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