Director Roel Reiné
Staring RZA, Schnitrnunt Busarakamwong, Grace Huang
Rated MA
Score 2.5/6

When a stranger, Thaddeus, is found badly wounded near the village, miner Li Kung and his wife Ah Ni offer him refuge. As he heals, he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho, his nefarious Beetle Clan and the terrifying Lord Pi.

This is a follow up to the 2012 movie The Man with the Iron Fists directed by RZA. To be perfectly honest it’s a little easy to overlook The Man with the Iron Fists 2 considering that it was a direct to DVD release and to be perfectly honest this is the lesser of the two movies in the franchise.
Okay, I loved the opening credits and the soundtrack but everything else seemed to be a little simplistic. Fans of fast paced martial arts sequences might be a little disappointed in The Man with the Iron Fists 2 because the fight sequences had a slow pace. The kind of pace that you would expect to see from any fight sequence before 1980. But I suppose this probably RZA was paying homage to the movies that he watched as a kid.
Just for the record you don’t have to have watched the first movie to understand what is going with this one. The story was very basic, the filmmakers took a page out of the Western genre specifically the ‘A Stranger Comes to Town’ chapter. Unfortunately they really didn’t do anything special with it.

I would suggest that this movie is best viewed with a 6 pack of beer.