Sorry, this movie sucks

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is easily the worst movie I've ever watched. And I have watched a ton of cheap kung-fu flicks, and they are, despite their low production, shallow story lines and predictable plots, waaaaaay better than this... movie.First of all - the plot is horrible. It's just so incredibly dumb. It makes sense that rap "artist" is behind this wreck, because the dialogue, the scenery, everything is so tacky and cringy and awful it hurts. Even something banal, like character hairstyles, makes you want to stop watching, it's so unconvincing a laughably bad. And even the fighting scenes, which are supposed to be the strongest point of this genre, are just horrible. The battle choreography is extremely lousy done and chaotic. Tacky colors don't help either. And above all that comes the sad llama face of the main protagonist, whose acting skills can be compared to those of a brick. I can't in all honesty believe that somebody actually read this script and said "let's do this". There is absolutely nothing good about it. I'm still in shock from what I've seen. I can't imagine bigger fail than making an homage to kung-fu classics in this day and age with all the technology and cinematography available and creating a movie which is undeniably worse than those flicks made with rope and stick 30 or 40 years ago. A fail of epic proportions. And they made a sequel. Unfathomable.

I remember finding this film in a store like a year or two ago. I didn't get it, put when I saw it in the rental store, I had to rent it. It was mostly because it seemed absolutely ridiculous, but in the way I'd totally love this film. I was right.First of all, the story is way more interesting than what it might sound in any summary. It was intriguing, just like all the actually Chinese kung-fu films I've seen. They are a weird mixture of violent action and some sort of low-key fantasy. The plot structure is interesting, because at first it introduces a several characters, whose stories intertwine with each other and the main plot. That doesn't work unless the characters are as interesting as they are in The Man With The Iron Fists. Of course the story isn't the greatest one out there, but it's surprisingly good. It's better than I expected, but it's very typical for an action film, apart from few details. But then again, almost every movie plot has those few details to make it different from the mass, but what is now very typical for the mass.If I could choose one thing I love the most about this film, it would absolutely be the soundtrack. There's no reason for hip hop to work in a kung-fu film, but it did, and I was in love since the opening credits because of the weird contrast between the picture and the sound.And now that I'm talking about picture, wow. Visually this film was astonishing, and I don't just mean the cinematography in general. This film definitely had some astonishing shots, but mostly I love the choreography of the fight scenes. Now I read that someone said that the fight scenes were too ridiculous, now absolutely there was some dark humour mixed in there, but it made them even more fun to watch. And during several fight scenes I just was astounded by how clever some of the fighting techniques were.The Man With The Iron Fists is absolutely worth seeing, even if it won't become your favourite film. It's worth seeing even if you might not like it. The thing is, it's violent and it's definitely very marginal, but it has a weird combinations you'd never expect from a movie like this.

I would recommend watching this if you want to see a vanity project by someone who has no idea of character development or storyline but thinks that aping b-movie kung fu plots will get them off the hook. It is truly truly dire. Lucy liu and crowe mail in enough to pick up their cheques but otherwise a cartoon imitation of direction and plot. It's laughable that IMDb requires 10 lines of text for a review, as this movie only needs 4 to describe how fundamentally awful it is. Occasionally Lucy Liu has an expression on her face that shrieks 'OMG, who wrote that line' , shortly before the film jumps to some artsy visual effect and some scene with maybe some bare female flesh, backed up with some wu tang crap. Amateur.

It's good to know that film companies have not yet given up on the idea of taking a well- known, accomplished filmmaker and coaxing him/her to slap their name on whatever crap they have laying around to make it somehow more marketable. Wes Craven seemed to have some crappy horror movie hitting video store shelves every week with all the horrible flotsam that had his name plastered all over their covers.In this case, Quentin Tarantino's name is inexplicably tied to this utterly ludicrous vehicle for rapper RZA to show off his lack of acting ability and love of kung fu movies. The story, for what passes as such, features a menagerie of skilled fighters crossing paths in Jungle Village as rival clans kill each other and nefarious alliances are forged and broken in order to procure a large sum of gold. In the middle of this is Blacksmith (RZA), who ends up on a revenge quest when the treacherous lion clan cut off his arms AND murder his woman! If that's not a recipe for martial arts style revenge then I don't know what is!Sigh. OK, I like bad movies... I love them, actually, and ridiculous Kung fu movies are usually right up my alley; unfortunately, "Man With the Iron Fists" offers little beyond it's superficial love letter to films like "Man With the Golden Arm" and "Fists of Fury". Yes, there's a lot of explicit violence, gore and people waving impractical weapons around, but the story never amounts to anything more than a hodge-podge of set pieces that never fully stitch together into a whole movie.On the bright side, there is still a LOT of silly nonsense going on here: befuddling Motley Crew hair cuts, hilarious costumes, an embarrassingly juvenile sense "isn't this so awesome?!" when someone pulls out a gun blade or spike-laden body suit add a sense of momentary bemusement to the proceedings. Even more amusing is the baffling acting job by such established talents as Russell Crowe and Lucy Lui. Crowe, in particular, is given numerous scenes to mutter through with so much bad dialog only a man's man like Russ could survive it, let along have a career after he was done.For example: he looks at a bevy of prostitutes on his bed and says, "Let's pretend to be Catholic and see which one of you is the heretic." Lui doesn't fare much better in her rallying speech to an army of ninja-whores where she appears to have been replaced by a store mannequin. It's still better than sitting through her performance in "Charlie's Angels", but it's still terrible.With all this cheese on display, it's a shame I didn't have more fun with this one. There are a few decent fight scenes and a handful of nice directorial flourishes (including some interesting slow motion), but that hardly balances out the manic delirium of the constant editing that renders several scenes completely ineffective. While there are numerous technical flaws and inconsistent production values, "Man With the Iron Fists" truly fails because the story and characters never develop past being clumps of winks and nostalgic nudges to older--and much more entertaining--films.1.5 out of 4