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IceMan
Cometh
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Country
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Hong
Kong |
| Year: |
1989 |
| Genre: |
Kung
Fu / Fantasy |
| Format: |
DVD |
| Running
Time: |
1H54 |
| Distributor: |
Universe
Laser & Video CO. |
| Date
reviewed: |
09/03/2001 |
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| Producer: |
Stephen
Siu |
| Director: |
Clarence
Fok |
Cast: Biao Yuen, Wah Yuen, Maggie
Cheung, Clarence Fok, Stanley Fung, Siu-Lau Lam, Ling
Ngok, Kam-Kong Tsui |
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Story:
During the Ming Dynasty one of the royal guards Feng
San brutally rapes and murders one of the princesses.
The emperor gives another chance to Feng Sau the royal
guard that let the criminal escape. Feng Sau chases
Feng San to a mystical spinning Buddha wheel, after
attempting a ritual they both end up 300 years into
the future.
Review: Iceman Cometh is a Kung Fu that mixes
old style mystical kung fu with a modern day setting.
Yuen Biao is also the lead role and this movie is
also one of his best movie of the 80`s. Using a time
travel setting the story ended up pretty interesting.
This is one of the few movies with ancient kung fu
warriors in a modern day setting. The story is very
simple to follow but unfortunately holds only a few
surprises.
The movie has 3 main characters, one of them being
the villain but most of the attention is focused on
Feng Sau (Yuen Biao). All of the actors give a good
performance, both with martial arts skills or humor.
There is very little background or development to
the characters except for maybe Feng Sau.
You have a couple of very interesting action sequences
in this movie, the ancient china part at the beginning
of the movie is pretty action packed. The movie start
on a very high action level, with a very good swordplay
fight with Biao VS Wah. After that point this become
shift to a more humorist setting as you have Feng
Sau adapting to the modern world, there are a couple
of hilarious gags with that. The movie starts to drag
on a bit when the modern day jokes start to become
old, during the second half of the movie the villain
returns and the action picks up with some spectacular
stunt, some good car chase scenes and great gun play
fights. The last fight that last some 10 to 15 minutes,
is incredible. The choreography is amaze and the moves
both actors pull off are simply incredible.
The subtitles are very good and the dialog is pretty
easy to follow. This is probably one of the best old
80's setting movies we've seen, we aren't crazy about
the Hong Kong 80's setting because it seems cheesy
in most movies. This movie is not bad, some pretty
incredible action and some comedy but we did find
it a little long in the middle. We recommend this
movie to kung fu fans and Yuen Biao fans.
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DVD
[ NTSC, All Region
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The image (LTB) quality is great, sharp but with some
scratches at the beginning of the movie, its not very
apparent during the whole movie. You also have a good
5.1 Surround Sound, as for the extra, you only have
Chapter selection and Stars Files. The DVD is great
so if you want to upgrade your old VHS copy of this
great movie, the DVD version is a good choice.
Reviewed
by Peter Zsurka
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Subtitles |
Overall |
| 3 |
3.5 |
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3.5 |

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