Once upon a time in china is about one of china's fame heros of the ching dynasty era, Wong Fei Hong, the son of the fame doctor wong Kei Yin owner of the famed Po Chi Lam. the storyline to this story is about corrupt imperial official becoming a traitor to the country for foreigners trying to kill of other ambassidors in china to try to start a war, Wong fei hong who becomes aware of this from certain contacts takes action to stop the official.
Jet Li superb martial arts moves and styles along with Donnie yen with some superb pole action, and some hand to hand leg to leg combat, with his famed shadow kick, and shaolin fist style fighting, a interesting story line and some good acting from jet li as a disicipline master and first class doctor.
Dvd features, original cantonese audio along with english dub, with a series of european subtitle plus english, dvd trailer of the movie and other movie trailers featuring jet li films. along with character and actor biography's.
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Advantages: Builds on everything great about the 1st movie.. and then some Disadvantages: Again like the 1st movie, cultural/historical significance may not be apparent to all
Advantages: not just great action, but great storytelling and characterisations Disadvantages: not many, though cultural/historical context might be lost on some