1993 · martial-arts · action
Iron Monkey
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping1h 30m1993
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, 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.
Our read: Iron Monkey (1993) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive martial-arts · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured martial-arts / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
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