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Once Upon a Time in China Part 2

Once Upon a Time in China Part 2

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AN AWESOME DISPLAY OF GREAT MARTIAL ARTS ACTION!! *s*
Review: THIS MOVIE WAS PRETTY SPECTACULAR!!! JET WAS GREAT AS USUAL!! THE ONLY DRAW BACK WAS NOT HAVING YUEN BIAO THERE!!! BUT WHO CARES REALLY WHEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER GREAT PERFORMING MARTIAL ARTIST LIKE DONNIE YEN PLAYING THE ENEMY OF JET!! THE FIGHT SEEN WITH DONNIE IS VERY LEGENDARY INDEED!!! IF YOU WANT TO SEE A GREAT SEQUEL THEN SEE OUATIC 2!!!!!!!! LATERZ!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best OUATIC movie!!
Review: This one goes down as one of the greats! The action sequence in this movie is amazing. Jet Li and Donnie Yen, both national champions of Wu Shu in China, demonstrate their awesome skills. Whether you're a diehard martial arts fan or just someone who wants to watch something entertaining, this will definitely be well worth your time. The story is not as heavy or as meaningful as Crouching Tiger, but its good enough.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Jet Li and Donnie Yen!!
Review: Watch this movie if only for the fact that Donnie Yen and Jet Li are in it. The two greatest pure Wu Shu practitioners of our time duking out. The story is weak, but it at least moves us along to the next action sequence. The charisma exuded by the two leads is contagious and well worth a watch....or three....

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: In my opionion, the best of the series that I have seen
Review: Wong Fei Hung is an important figure, not only to Chinese history, but also to me as a student of the style, which he helped make famous. The Hung Gar Style is traced back to Hung Tsi Kwan (there are lots of debates over the spelling of his name) who taught Luk Ah Choy, and Wong Tai (Wong Fei Hung's grand father) who taught Wong Kei Ying (Fei Hung's father) who refused to teach Fei Hung, forcing him to turn to Luk Ah Choy for lessons. Fei Hung then went on to teach Lam Sai Wing who wrote the book that more or less made the style famous. Hung Gar is a very common style in Southern China, but is very rare stateside with only a small number of schools teaching it. Wong Fei Hung is therefore a matter of great interest to me, which is why I bought this film without actually seeing it first. Lucky for me it ended up being a very worthwhile purchase.
Although the film continues the bizarre and fictional relationship between Wong Fei Hung and his Cousin Yee this film is the most enjoyable of the three that I have seen. There is a lot of comedy in this film that works brilliantly along side the action and the drama for this film, which fully recognizes itself as being a work of fiction despite its use of historical figures.
Wong Fei Hung and his student Foon (Now played by a different actor) set off on an adventure with Cousin Yee that bring them up against the Sinister White Lotus Society who are determined to rid China of the foreigners using a mystical power that makes them invincible. But is this power real? The film's story is more intriguing than the previous film, and the action scenes are twice as good. I highly recommend this title as it, like its predecessor is one of the finest Kung Fu films out there. Even the English dub on this film is halfway decent!


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