Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Paul Magne Haakonsen With a shorter running time and a more coherently constructed storyline "Once Upon a Time in China 2" (aka "Wong Fei Hung II: Nam yee tung chi keung") was a better movie than the first movie from 1991.Jet Li returns to play legendary Wong Fei Hung and continues fairly much where part one left the audience. However, the stakes are upped in part two as there is a grand show off between Jet Li and Donnie Yen. And if you get the Hong Kong Legends version, the interview with Donnie Yen is quite worth watching - despite his cocky attitude. It was a nice detail to find out that they were given free hands to go at each other with the bamboo poles.The action and martial arts were amazingly well-choreographed and executed. But of course everything that Yuen Woo-Ping is involved with is fantastic.The story in "Once Upon a Time in China 2" is good and well-paced, right from the very beginning.As in the previous movie, the dialogue and characters of the Western foreigners in China were campy, ridiculous and downright awful. I didn't think anyone ever spoke the same way as they did.If you enjoy Asian martial arts movies then "Once Upon a Time in China 2" is definitely a movie well-worth sitting down to watch.

leonblackwood Review: I didn't think that this movie was in the same class as the first movie. I missed his trusty sidekicks and the script lacked wit and entertainment. The helper that he has in this movie was a bit poor and the action scenes wasn't as great as the first movie. As for the storyline, Dr. Wong is now helping the foreigners against some radical mercenaries who want rid of them. The radicals also have the help from the police who come toe to toe with Jet Li and his companions. The storyline didn't really grip me and the showdown at the end was quite disappointing. On the plus side, there isn't any fighting on strings or flying in the air so the action scenes looked real. The thing that really let the movie down was the poor storyline and the dull characters. I just hope that the 3rd one is better. Disappointing!Round-Up: This is the problem with making sequels! If you give your all in the first movie, you really find it hard to replicate that success. That's exactly what has happened with this film. There was so much going on in the first movie but in this film there just seemed like there was something missing. Maybe it's because I watched part one and two, back to back. Anyway, although I found the movie disappointing, it's still a watchable movie which is better than some martial are movies I have seen recently.Budget: N/A Worldwide Gross: HK$30.4millionI recommend this movie to people who are into their Jet Li movies about a doctor who is trying to save the foreigners from radical mercenaries. 4/10

Sanou_san Once again I always appreciate highly martial arts movie of Chinese origin. They are so unique and so eye-catching, you wouldn't even drop your eyes for a moment to miss a glimpse of every exhilarating action scenes. Once again Jet Li proves his somewhat innate talent in portraying a real Kung Fu master, whose almost invincible at every angle you see. This sequel to the first Once upon a time in China movie attracts once again all action movie addicts especially of Chinese martial arts genre. Undeniably Chinese movies concerning martial arts action offer the best of them all, unlike nowadays some movies gets tired in furnishing the best product of their movie career. Foremost, even though the story is a bit eccentrically confusing the substance reminds us to look for something else noteworthy. Glad I have it in cheap original copy, watch it I promise you'll never be disappointed.And oh, this is the first movie where I saw Donnie Yen played his character.

Cristi_Ciopron There are some snobs who commiserate a few Asian directors (such as Yimou Zhang and Ang Lee) for making lively fun movies (like Ying Xiong ;Wo Hu Cang long)and not boring , tedious,insipid,"serious",monotonous ones.These critics suppose,I don't know why,that the Asian directors are forced by "the system" to make such "commercial" movies,instead of doing the banal and academic ones.(The same critics,having no sense of real fun,were those who,in another age,reprimanded Balzac, Dumas, Hugo, Scott, Dickens, Stevenson,AC Doyle,HG Wells,for writing lively novels and for not being Flaubert,Zola,etc.).Among the funniest scenes in Wong Fei Hung Ji Yi: Naam Yi Dong Ji Keung are:(1)the neuroanatomy/medicine/acupuncture lesson,interrupted by a ferocious attack;(2)the dog meat dinner;(3)the great beginning,with the train travel;(4)the exposure of the nationalist sect's leader.I liked the comments of Jellygoose;Fox in Socks from Staffordshire;Cheahcw from Arlington;Callanvass from Victoria b.c Canada;MikeA from Isle of Man;squelcho;miguelsanchez69 from NYC.