Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

fredroyer For those of you who grew up in the 80s like me, the old time USA channel only had things to show: WWF, and badly dubbed Kung Fu movies produced by the Shaw Brothers.The plot, as it were, is a combination of all of those movies. The movie is hysterical. No one involved is taking themselves seriously (how could they?) and wow, it sure does look like Russell Crowe is having the time of his life.

Kirpianuscus It is not easy to say something precise about it. if you say than it is a bbad movie, you are right. if you say than it is a spectacular film you do not are wrong. because it is a salad with too much ingredients. too many flavours. sure, martial arts and memories about so many films and Rusell Crow and Lucy Liu ( and the mind to the scenes from Kill Bill ) and influences of western and a mythology in balance between Chinese fairy tales and stories about modern heroes. but, after its end, all sems just a pretext for propose an exuberant show about...nothing. sure, Hamlet and Lord of the Ring and Tarantino and Marvel in a huge package. but something missing. nothing clear. maybe coherence. maybe most accuracy of confrontations to the model. sure,, only details. significant, yyet.

shiannejones *inhale* Let me just say I was 14 or 15 when I saw this. That was not RZA's fault, that was my abusive step father's fault. But, what was RZA's fault was ((SPOILERS)) the repulsive and gratuitous amount of sex scenes (I don't remember if they were real or not, and I'm not watching again to find out). I could have bore this... "movie" if it weren't for that. But, because of how graphic this movie was-especially considering my traumatic childhood already filled with sexual assault-and that I had to watch it with the man that would punch and beat me constantly from 6 years old to 16, I was genuinely traumatized by this movie. I don't know what Lucy Liu was thinking, or if she was at all, but I have lost all (and then some) respect for her.Putting my "butthurt" aside this was just genuinely a catastrophe of a movie. It made no sense, the acting was just... horrendous is being exceedingly generous, the graphics... all of it. This "movie" should have never gotten past RZA's head let alone onto paper and then onto film. I don't know if this movie was purposely bad, if he was aiming to make a B movie cult classic like Sharknado or what but this clearly missed the mark, flew into outer space and was eaten up by a black-hole. At least I wish it was anyway. I would rather watch The Room with the volume turned all the way up, on an 8 in. black and white television, on the portrait setting with the saturation turned all the way up than watch this ever again. Ever. AGAIN. *exhale*

mistoppi I remember finding this film in a store like a year or two ago. I didn't get it, put when I saw it in the rental store, I had to rent it. It was mostly because it seemed absolutely ridiculous, but in the way I'd totally love this film. I was right.First of all, the story is way more interesting than what it might sound in any summary. It was intriguing, just like all the actually Chinese kung-fu films I've seen. They are a weird mixture of violent action and some sort of low-key fantasy. The plot structure is interesting, because at first it introduces a several characters, whose stories intertwine with each other and the main plot. That doesn't work unless the characters are as interesting as they are in The Man With The Iron Fists. Of course the story isn't the greatest one out there, but it's surprisingly good. It's better than I expected, but it's very typical for an action film, apart from few details. But then again, almost every movie plot has those few details to make it different from the mass, but what is now very typical for the mass.If I could choose one thing I love the most about this film, it would absolutely be the soundtrack. There's no reason for hip hop to work in a kung-fu film, but it did, and I was in love since the opening credits because of the weird contrast between the picture and the sound.And now that I'm talking about picture, wow. Visually this film was astonishing, and I don't just mean the cinematography in general. This film definitely had some astonishing shots, but mostly I love the choreography of the fight scenes. Now I read that someone said that the fight scenes were too ridiculous, now absolutely there was some dark humour mixed in there, but it made them even more fun to watch. And during several fight scenes I just was astounded by how clever some of the fighting techniques were.The Man With The Iron Fists is absolutely worth seeing, even if it won't become your favourite film. It's worth seeing even if you might not like it. The thing is, it's violent and it's definitely very marginal, but it has a weird combinations you'd never expect from a movie like this.