Despite my ignorance of Hong Kong, I'm convinced that Iron Monkey could be the best, most entertaining martial arts film I may ever see.
Iron Monkey(少年黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮)
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Hong Kong · 1993
Rated PG-13 · 1h 30m
Director Yuen Woo-ping
Starring Yu Rongguang, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Angie Tsang Sze-Man
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
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Corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit. The arrival of an evil Shaolin monk brings the physician and Iron Monkey together to battle the corrupt government.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein
It's funny, heroic, exaggerated and, most of all, energetic; the film speeds along as though afraid to lose the audience's attention for even a moment.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
It's indescribable fun.
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Viewers impressed by the fairly standard martial-arts action of "Crouching Tiger" will really be wowed after seeing this film.
The New York Times by Dave Kehr
Saving the big number for the climax, like any good musical director, Mr. Yuen finishes up with a spectacular variation on the traditional kung fu pole fight.
A rollicking, comic-book Robin Hood plot and more furiously entertaining fight scenes than the ones in Ang Lee's solemn martial-arts art movie.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Not only visually brilliant, it's funny, too.
They're as special as special effects get.
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Now the movie can be seen for what it was all along, remarkable by any standards.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
If Asian martial arts movies interest you even a little bit, you're going to want to see Iron Monkey. Not only that, you're going to want to see it more than once.
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