This movie is great-looking, slick and highly professional, but stops at that. The Jackie Chan movie benefitted from our knowledge that Chan does most of his own stunts, and "Crouching Tiger" was not simply action scenes but also a poetic story, told with great visual beauty. "Iron Monkey" is a superior example of its genre without transcending it.
At one point the two allies are balanced one on top of the other on one shaky pole, and at another point they're balanced on either end of a shaky horizontal pole (this scene may have inspired a similar predicament involving ladders in the recent " The Musketeer" Western movies are stealing martial arts stunts with shameless abandon). This one is pretty spectacular, as the fighters balance on tall wooden poles over an inferno, battering each other with blazing battering rams while leaping from one precarious perch to another. The story is essentially a clothesline for a series of spectacular action scenes, culminating, as "Drunken Master" did, with one involving fire. They find a common enemy in an evil monk. Yang (Yu Rong-guong), a free-lance idealist who fights for the poor against the rich. Since such a stand-off would have the movie's two heroes fighting each other, obviously unacceptable, we see young Wong Fei-hong escaping, which frees his father to partner with the Iron Monkey, who is actually Dr. The governor tells Wong Kei-ying his son will be held captive until he captures the Iron Monkey.
Hauled before the provincial governor, Wong Kei-ying is charged with being the Iron Monkey, but then the real Monkey materializes in the court. Here we see 12-year-old Wong Fei-hong traveling with his father, Wong Kei-ying ( Donnie Yen) when they are caught in a dragnet set to snare the Iron Monkey, a mysterious Robin Hood figure.
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