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ICEMAN: THE TIME TRAVELER Review: Part Two Of Donnie Yen’s Reboot Push Defrosts With Gusto

Ask almost anyone in my circles and they’ll tell you how supportive I usually am for remakes and reboots if done right. Obviously not all remakes have worked in cinema history and it’s all but added to the stigma that permeates around current remakes either completed or already in the making. Effectively, this includes the last eight years in which action star Donnie Yen has spent bottoming-out with his overbudgted and overwrought redo of Hong Kong fantasy classic, Iceman Cometh, thus bringing us Law Wing-Cheong’s Iceman 3D, and its long-gestating follow-up, Iceman: The Time Traveler. I won’t get into the specifics of the story connecting both films, and for several reasons – frankly one of them being that as I tried to watch the second film for which this review is attributed to, I kept tuning out and falling asleep. What I will say, in place of this, is what […]

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Watch The New Trailer For ICEMAN From Well Go USA!

If you lost count when asked on the spot just how many films actor Donnie Yen has been working on recently, you’re totally forgiven. The last few years have been pretty grueling for the martial arts action superstar and continual working man who has at least two more films headed for a domestic release in Asia this October while busy out in New Zealand filming scenes for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Destiny. One of those two films will be a sequel to his April release, Iceman 3D, the reboot to director Clarence Fok’s 1989 original classic that wasn’t without its fair share of headlines both before and after production due to an oversized budget and a slate of mixed-reaction from fans and critics alike. Nevertheless, North American distributor Well Go USA has set the film’s limited theatrical release date for September 19 following their mid-Cannes acquisition of […]

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The Noble Review: ICEMAN 3D (2014)

SYNOPSIS: In the Ming Dynasty, there lives four orphans, Ying (Donnie Yen), Sao (Wang Baoqiang), Yuanlong (Simon Yam) and Niehu (Yu Kang). Raised in Taoyuan Village, the four are as closed as brothers. Their exceptional martial arts skills allows them to reach the highest rank within the imperial guards.  After the four successfully killed the Japanese troop leader, the Emperor orders Ying to escort the Golden Wheel of Time from Sindu (now India) back to the capital, which is said to have the power of time travel and foresee into the future. From the correspondence between the Japanese and Ming officials seized from the mission, Mr. Tu, the Chief of National Defence, reveals that he can identify the traitor by the handwritings. On the way of escorting the Golden Wheel of Time in the snow, Ying is surprised to meet Sao, Yuanlong and Niehu. They inform Ying the news of […]

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ICEMAN 3D II Wraps Filming

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