Tsui Hark’s sprawling vision of a changing nineteenth-century China begins with this riotously entertaining epic, a blockbuster hit that cemented Jet Li’s status as the greatest martial-arts superstar of his generation. Li displays his stunning, fast-and-fluid fighting style as the legendary martial-arts teacher and doctor Wong Fei-hung, who, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces—foreign and local—who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.

“Yuen Woo Ping has done an astonishing job in the action choreography, exploiting fully the impressive abilities of a Jet Li in his prime, through a number of scenes that are included among the best of all time, with the ones during the extended final sequence being the most impressive.”-Asian Movie Pulse