Iron Monkey (2001) Critic Reviews
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Where it really counts, though, it's the same good old comic action fantasy.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Now the movie can be seen for what it was all along, remarkable by any standards.Read the full review
Gravity-defying kung fu choreography.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Not only visually brilliant, it's funny, too.Read the full review
They're as special as special effects get.Read the full review
A long-on-video 1993 release now restored to its original Cantonese with different music and more audio pop.Read the full review
Basically aimed at audiences who want elaborate fight sequences and fidget at the dialogue in between. It's for the fans, not the crossover audience.Read the full review
