No, this doesn’t have
anything to do with that Marvel Comics guy.
It’s actually a ho-hum Jimmy Wang Yu movie. Yu of course is most famous for playing The
One-Armed Swordsman. I guess this flick
proves two arms aren’t necessarily better than one.
Jimmy goes riding
around with his loyal band of followers looking for the men who killed his
brothers in battle. Along the way, he
gets framed for the death of a beloved leader and is arrested and put on trial.
After finally proving his innocence, he
goes toe to toe with the crooked warlord who imprisoned him.
You know, for a movie called The Iron Fist Adventures, Jimmy doesn't get to use
his fists a whole lot. Actually, the film
features more gunplay than anything as nearly all the action starts with Yu and
his enemy shooting at each other. Then,
when they run out of bullets, they draw swords and duel. Then, when they knock their swords away, they
fight hand to hand. All of this gets repetitive
after a while.
Yu does what he can to
salvage the movie. When the film does work,
it’s because of his cool charisma more than the middling fight scenes. The other guys who make up his ragtag army
are annoying though. Their only purpose
is to provide exposition and hammer home plot points. It’s enough to make you wish Jimmy went on
this mission solo.
AKA: The Adventure. AKA:
The Cyclone.
How can I buy this?
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