Once Upon A Time In China Part 2

Adventure, Action, Martial Arts

Jet Li	Huang Feihong
Ka-Kui Ho	Mak
Siu Chung Mok	Leung Foon
Rosamund Kwan	Shao Yun
Donnie Yen	Lan
David Chiang	Luke
Xin Xin Xiong	Kung
Shi-Kwan Yen	Chung
Paul Fonoroff	British Consul

Director	Hark Tsui
Producer	Hark Tsui; See-Yuen Ng
Writer	Cheung Tan; Hark Tsui

Actor and martial arts maestro Jet Li and iconoclastic director Tsui Hark revisit historical China and legendary folk hero Wong Fei Hung in the second installment to the wildly popular Once Upon a Time in China film series (or better yet, "serials"). The main players include Li as Wong Fei Hung, Rosamund Kwan as his beloved but Westernized Auntie 13, and their clumsy sidekick Foon (Max Mok). China is in a period of political unrest. Dr. Sun Yat Sen is beginning to gain momentum behind his Nationalist party. A Qing minister (played with intensity by skilled fighter Donnie Yen) firmly carries out his job as police enforcer and a crazed cult called the White Lotus Sect has decided to take matters into their own hands by bullying citizens and destroying everything foreign. Wong and his crew find themselves at odds with the minister and the Sect, who have more in common than they initially let on. It all leads to some high-octane action scenes, including an all-out table-stacking and airborne brawl with the Sect (in which Wong uncharacteristically goes a little berserk himself) and a one-on-one matchup between Li and Yen. Tsui juggles the multilayered plot while Li juggles his opponents in a perfectly serviceable epic that is perhaps not as significant as the first Once Upon a Time in China but is solid kung fu nourishment for fans. --Shannon Gee