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Iron Monkey 2
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $13.25
Your Save: $ 1.73 ( 12% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Starring: Donnie Yen, Billy Chow, Ma Wu
Directed By: Woo-ping Yuen
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305885146
Format: Color
ISBN: 6305885141
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tai Seng
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2002-01-01
Running Time: 90
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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Editorial Reviews:
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In Iron Monkey 2 (only loosely related to its predecessor), Hong Kong martial arts star Donnie Yen plays Iron Monkey, who's a cross between Robin Hood and a superhero. However, it's hard to determine what exactly his goals are because the movie is virtually incomprehensible. The story line--something to do with revolutionaries battling arms smugglers--is disjointed, the camera work is excessively wild, scenes change abruptly and without explanation ("Iron Monkey! What are you doing here?" "Never mind. Let's get the weapons."), the characters are broad and cartoonish, and the dubbing is unusually bad. Only the frequent appearance of astonishing hyperkinetic fight scenes--choreographed by the endlessly inventive Yuen Ho Ping, who came to fame as the fight choreographer of The Matrix--keep the viewer engaged. But the curious thing is that, after a while, this choppy movie starts to exert a perverse fascination. It doesn't become campy; instead, as it lurches from kung fu spectacle to strange moral pronouncements to out-of-nowhere high emotion, Iron Monkey 2 grows strangely compelling. It's as if, through directorial incompetence, the movie has been distilled to the basic elements of cinematic storytelling. While avant-garde directors like Jean-Luc Godard struggle to discover just this kind of raw, jagged, yet potent narrative, Iron Monkey 2 achieves it without even trying. --Bret Fetzer
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Donnie, what were you thinking?!
Comment: This really is poor. Donnie Yen is an incredible martial artist. Billy Chow has chops too. But the film sucks. The stars are wasted. Dreadful story - usually to be expected as it's Hong Kong Cinema - but where's the thrilling choreography that makes up for the limits of a HK story? Further, my copy was faulty, (it skipped) which only added to the grief. There are a couple of decent moves, not fights, just moves, but, really, give this one a miss.
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Summary: the editorial review actually does a good job in reviewing this movie
Comment: Donnie Yen, Billy Chow, and two other guys that can fight almost as good as them. The fight scenes in this movie are good for seconds at atime, but nothing happens in this movie, and it's easily one of the worst directed movies ever, actually pretty amazing how bad this is.
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Summary: Really Bad
Comment: I felt so sorry for Mr. Yen being in this so called sequel. Please don't judge this movie in the same light of the original. If you do. You will be greatly disappointed.
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Summary: don't let the name fool you
Comment: Pretty standard low-budget HK actioner. The production quality is no where near the Quentin Tarantino presentation of "Iron Monkey." Feels like they took an old movie and repacked it for IM fans. Yuen Wo Ping is credited with the fight direction which is good. Acting directing is poor to mediocre at best... It is good to see more of Donny Yen, but I'd like to see more of him in some higher quality films, like a CTHD follow-up, Matrix-style or Jet Li film.
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Summary: NOT a Sequel To Iron Monkey!
Comment: This is a run of the mill Hong Kong Actioner, and if you're a fan, you'll probably enjoy it, although not much. Donnie Yen is good, the action and fighting sequences are good, Yuen Wo Ping did design the fights. But the filming, editing, and overall quality are mediocre (fans expect this sort of low budget quality in most HK action films). I really believe this is Tai Seng's attempt to cash in on the popularity of Iron Monkey. Frankly, they've done a poor job, as any serious fan will detect absolutely no connection to that story and this.
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