Well, it’s the last week for this butt-kicking, leg-aching
month. During my snow-laden stay at home, I decided to revisit a movie I
saw when I was younger, Iron Monkey. I saw this a few years ago on TV and I
remember enjoying it. Since it was on Netflix and I had nothing to do, I
decided to watch it. I also saw that the movie had a sequel called Iron Monkey
2, so I thought it might be a good watch too. They both have Donnie Yen, a
martial arts actor I’m beginning to enjoy more of these days.
Iron Monkey was first released in 1993 overseas. It was eventually
brought over US theaters in 2001. Quentin Tarantino was behind getting it over
here. I guess someone eventually saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and thought
this would be good over here. You know, I still haven’t seen Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon yet. I may have to do that someday. It has an easy title to spoof
with Crouching Tiger, Hidden “Insert Random Thing Here.” As for its “sequel”,
it was released in 1996. There really isn’t much else to say about it… yet.