Who needs a time machine
when you have a deep freeze that puts some very interesting individuals on ice dating
all the way back to the Ming Dynasty (16th Century ice-encased
relics).
That’s the premise of
director Law Wing Cheong’s mega-budget Iceman, which is heading to the
domestic market as DVD and Blu-ray product offerings from Well Go U.S.A. on
Nov. 11.
Four ancient “icemen” are
uncovered in the film’s prologue in China and are carefully placed in
cryo-status tubes for transport back to the lab for examination, but an
accident occurs enroute and the time-trapped warriors suddenly find themselves
on the streets of Hong Kong.
Ying (Donnie Yen — Ip
Man, Lung Fu Moon, The Founding of a Republic), a palace guard
wrongfully-accused of murder, awakens to find himself in an alien world. He has,
however, the very good fortune of bumping into May (Shengyi “Eva” Huang — Kung
Fu Hustle, The Emperor and the White Snake, etc.) on — as luck would
have it — Halloween, so his odd “costume” goes pretty much unnoticed in the
manic streets of Hong Kong.
She helps him get
orientated (and naturally romance blooms in the process) to his new
surroundings, but time and events from a bygone era have a peculiar way of
catching up, even to those who are completely out of step with it.
The others that were
frozen with him are out for revenge, but they are just as disoriented as he is
… which makes for some interesting action sequences as the technology of the
Ming Dynasty comes face to face with modern Hong Kong!
Bonus features for Iceman,
which is presented in Cantonese with English subtitles, include a
behind-the-scenes featurette titled “The Making of Iceman.”
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