Bing feng: Yong heng zhi men

What a disappointment ... Why is the storyline so confusing and not directed. Like there is no certainty of the story to the end

This movie is disappointing. Your traditional go back in time movie to redo the pass. But, wait I can't change the pass. End. I really rented this movie for the martial arts.

Lots of special effects here but they can not help float a story with many flaws even with the appearance of one of my favourite actor Donnie Yen. If you're looking for kung fu martial arts by Donnie Yen, look elsewhere. If you're looking for time travel exploration applications look elsewhere as in my opinion the story writer and director have made a mess of in this movie. The logics don't seem to make any connection particular near the end. There are some sweet eastern romance scenes and the actresses did a good job. The sets do look very well designed and the costumes look great, but in the end the entire movie looks like multimedia college/university project. If you're looking for Chinese time traveller flicks, The Iceman Cometh (1989) starring Yuen Biao is still the benchmark.

Don't waste your time. No wonder Donnie didn't bother promoting this movie. Wonder why the producers sank in so much money to make a badly written story. First one was a flop and they still hoped for a miracle?

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.