Once Upon a Time in China IV

A movie made because the series was still profitable, even though they ran out of story and the main actor of the previous entries couldn't be bothered. But a man does punch a horse.

Not one of the better ones in the series; it's a little tricky telling III apart from IV, with both having attacks on foreigners and a big Lion Dance festival. This one's most notorious moment is the guy who punches a horse in the face. Like the others, this careens wildly between some good martial arts and some really silly sequences; it also has some interesting "villains" that don't really get to do much. The Godzilla-like monsters were pretty funny but not memorable.

the fighting scenes with dragon/lions are awesome, the story i can't really tell what it was about, because the subtitles where so very small and at times so fast, i just could not read it.

Okay Movie

the plot is all over the place, and it's disappointing that what was an interesting idea for action scenes with the lion and dragon dancers in part 3 becomes overused and poorly done in this installment. Chiu Man-cheuk is a decent replacement for jet li, but does a better job in part 5. hark tsui shouldn't have let someone else direct.