The joy of watching this kind of stuff lies in the choreographical invention and creativity [and] the speed and dexterity of the combatants.

| Original Score: B+ | May 8, 2002

A crackling Cantonese action caper in the tradition of Robin Hood, Zorro, Batman et al.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 6, 2002

Yuen tosses off nimble, elegantly witty solutions to life's most vexing problems regarding rooms full of bad guys who won't take thwak for an answer.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2001

Think of Iron Monkey as the potboiling cousin of Crouching Tiger, rather than its most honoured forefather, and you'll be on the right wavelength.

| Oct 12, 2001

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.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

A breathtaking pleasure certain to build anticipation for Yuen's future directing efforts on this side of the globe.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was like fusion food, Chinese for Western tastes. Now, get ready for the real thing.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 12, 2001

As with other, similar movies, you do have to buy into brazen pulp operatics to get through it. Still, there's a rough-hewn energy to the movie's pre-digital flying-fist sequences that all but neutralizes the unapologetic hokum.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

The story is fairly generic, but plot has as little to do with the pleasures of kung fu movies as story lines do in musicals.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2001

Highly entertaining escapist fare.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

If Asian martial arts movies interest you even a little bit, you're going to want to see Iron Monkey.

| Oct 12, 2001

Pure ballet, pure candy for the eyes.

| Oct 12, 2001

A cinematic marvel to behold.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

What raises it above the level of conventional children's pulp entertainment is Yuen's dazzlingly choreographed acrobatic high-wire work.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

Contains some of the most inspired martial arts sequences ever put on film.

| Oct 12, 2001

A film like Iron Monkey is 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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2001

It hasn't aged a bit.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2001

Not only visually brilliant, it's funny too.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2001

Not only has nothing essential been compromised, but the film seems crisper, cleaner and better organized than I remember.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2001

It doesn't have much in the way of plot. But this high-flying tale about a Robin Hood/Zorro figure boasts spectacular action sequences that make story irrelevant.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2001