TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Giallo Fanatic Quite honestly, I've never really been impressed by watching Chinese jumping around on the big screen like Peter Pan. The main reason I watched this movie is because Donnie Yen's in it. Also because Yuen Woo-ping was directing it, I liked Woo-ping's older movies, 'Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, 'Magnificent Butcher' and 'Dreadnaught' to name a few. So I thought at first "Donnie Yen in a Yuen Woo-ping movie, how can it go wrong?". But then then right in the few minutes we see characters flying across the screen and I thought to myself: "Oh no, this movie isn't for me". The fact that characters can fly already made it clear to me that they will be able to break heavy blocks of wood and stone slabs easily, make inanimate objects fly 20 meters across the screen and a lot of extravaganza about making people look elegant flying across the screen. Which I really don't have any interest in. To make it worse many of the fight scenes were noticeably sped up. I find it tolerable if it is in tiny parts of the movie; also it is not foreign that some fight scenes get sped up in Chinese martial arts movies. But in 'Iron Monkey' I thought it was taken to ridiculous lengths to be any entertaining. I didn't find the plot interesting either since it is Robin Hood just in a Chinese setting.But what I did enjoy about the movie was the acting, I have a weakness for the slightly exaggerated acting of Chinese actors, it reminds me of the German Expressionistic movies I love to watch. Whenever I am tired of the American acting or European acting then I usually watch late 70's and 80's Chinese movies. I also liked the story, with Miss Orchid and Iron Monkey having a past together that gave them a strong bond. A bond which they share with deep devotion and loyalty. I find it romantic. The story of the Wongs is interesting kind of too, with Donnie playing a strict father who raise his son. With strong disciplin and some physical punishment as well. But it has been repeated many times before so it is not as interesting as the story of Iron Monkey (Yang Tianchun) and Miss Orchid. Production value looks quite impressive, but it didn't make it more interesting or entertaining in my opinion. So my opinion will be not good but not bad either. I have no interest in watching it again. 5/10

Samiam3 What could possibly be a cheesier name than Iron monkey. One could argue that it is the only thing wrong with this otherwise, flawless piece of entertainment. Flawless entertainment isn't the same of course as a flawless movie. While Iron Monkey is not all that well scripted, no film delivers martial arts combat as skillful and inventive as this film which is essentially Zorro in Ching Dynasty China (late 19th century)So why does Iron Monkey work so well? For the obvious reason it is directed and staged by the world's greatest choreographer of combat. It helps of course that much of the movie is shot at 48 frames per second, but it's fluid. In too many movies, speed equals chaos, but not here. It also helps that the film has a great sense of slapstick humour. The ways in which people get their butts kicked by everyday objects such as sliding cafe tables, medicine bowls, umbrella's and even pieces of food, is very clever. Iron Monkey is a great film to show your friends, certainly much more honourable than most of the American junk, that pilfers from these film (Quentin Tarantino, not included of course). Even when it's over, you may find yourself eager for more

daan_de_geus The amazing Iron Monkey! This movie has a legendary status amongst martial arts fans, and for good reason!Iron Monkey is the Chinese robin hood and he owns in this totally cool martial arts flick directed by Yuen Woo Ping. The action is super fast paced (again, it's like a Donnie Yen movie trademark) and filled with wires and unrealistic stuff like that. But Donnie and Rongguang excel and shows true ass kicking moves. T he story is not really special or anything, but it suffices and the acting is good. I think about 70 % of the movie consists of fight scenes, 25% dialogue and acting and 5% classic Chinese actors making funny face at the camera. If you like unrealistic and speedy martial arts flicks, then this is the movie for you.

tiger86-2 I love this movie! Don't ask me why, just see it. And you will understand. The fights are most spectacular I've ever seen. The story is almost perfect, it's better than most of the Hollywood action movies. I have seen so many kung-fu movies but this is one of my favorites. If there is a god of kung-fu movies, it should be Yuen Wo Ping. See this movie and you will know why. If you like great fights and great movies, you will like this one. Well, if you expect to see something like "Hero" or "Crouching Tiger Hidden Drgaon", you will be disappointed. You will be disappointed not because "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger..." are better than "Iron Monkey" but because the movies are too different. "Iron Monkey" is a great martial arts action but the other two movies are more dramatic, they are not action movies. Well, that's it. What else could I say?