Iceman!too cool for words!, 18 Oct 2000

Yuen Wah and Yuen Biao are Imperial Guards during the Ming Dynasty in ancient China. Yuen Wah becomes a rapist and serial killer and murders the royal Princess. Yuen Biao vows to bring Fung San to the Emperor for justice. Fung San steals the magical "Black Jade Buddah" and attempts to use its mystical superpowers for his own evil purposes. Ching arrives just in time to stop him. A fierce swordfight ensues with both participants tumbling over the edge of the cliff into a glacial crevice. The two are frozen together for three hundred years.

After discovery the two are accidentally thawed and brought to life in modern Hong Kong. Fung San adapts easily to modern day Hong Kong, he returns to a life of crime. Ah Ching "rescues" prostitute Polla, and becomes her bodyguard/personal servant to survive. Later, Ching must battle to really save Polla after she falls into Fung Sans evil clutches.

The swordplay and fight scenes between Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah are awesome! The scene where the immense neon sign is used to backlight Yuen Biao poised with sword is so striking! One ultimate tableau is moments later when Wah and Biao are facing off with swords and an massive 747 jumbo jet passes right behind them! The juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern is part of what I admire about the movie. Be prepared to run and rewind many times through the action scenes, they are unbelievable. Yuen Wah and Yuen Biao are the real thing, as they were both stuntmen extrordinaire before they became actors.

Yuen Wah usually plays some of the most convincing villians in Hong Kong cinema with extreme skill. Yuen Biao's portrayal of Guard Ching is wonderful, comvincingly complex and at times very innocent and funny too. He truly shows the scope of his acting skill in the graveyard tunnel and hospital scenes.

I highly recommend this movie!

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