Virtually the entire cast of Part I was replaced for the sequel, one of the biggest successes of Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop. The story picks up a year later as Fox (Jet Li) and Kiddo (Michelle Reis) learn that the sacred book from Part I has fallen into the hands of Asia the Invincible (Brigitte Lin), a man who has changed his sex in the process of acquiring unthinkable power. As part of her plan of conquest, Asia the Invincible has imprisoned the father of a woman to whom Fox is beholden, drawing Fox into an inevitable showdown with Asia. Considered the archetypal new-wave swordplay film, with wire-enhanced fight choreography that has seldom been surpassed. - Hong Kong Babylon