I genuinely enjoyed the 2014 "Iceman" movie with Donnie Yen, so I was rather surprised to find this 2018 sequel, especially since I hadn't even heard about it prior to getting a chance to sit down and watch it. So of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and watch "Iceman: The Time Traveler" (aka "Bing feng: Yong Heng Zhi Men").
But this movie was nothing like the first movie. Not even remotely. Sure, it was the same characters and set in the same universe. But storywise this was a heap of rubbish. There was little coherency to the storyline and it just felt like a random collection of ideas that the director put together as they went along.
The action sequences and martial arts were good, that much should be said for the movie, but it was not enough to make up for a total lack of proper storyline and script.
Throughout the entire movie, I felt my interest slipping and drifting, but I stuck with the movie to the end, just in the hopes of it becoming better. However, it did not, and this movie ended up a less than mediocre sequel to an otherwise entertaining movie.
This is definitely not an outstanding movie in the Donnie Yen collection of action movies. Worth a single view if you are a fan of his, but don't expect to be blown away.
But this movie was nothing like the first movie. Not even remotely. Sure, it was the same characters and set in the same universe. But storywise this was a heap of rubbish. There was little coherency to the storyline and it just felt like a random collection of ideas that the director put together as they went along.
The action sequences and martial arts were good, that much should be said for the movie, but it was not enough to make up for a total lack of proper storyline and script.
Throughout the entire movie, I felt my interest slipping and drifting, but I stuck with the movie to the end, just in the hopes of it becoming better. However, it did not, and this movie ended up a less than mediocre sequel to an otherwise entertaining movie.
This is definitely not an outstanding movie in the Donnie Yen collection of action movies. Worth a single view if you are a fan of his, but don't expect to be blown away.