The Man with the Iron Fists is a genre-matchup of older B-Movies, RZA takes the helm as director and main actor in this kung fu-esque flick about the lives of people interconnected after a large cache of gold is stolen.

You get everything you can expect from a B Kung Fu Movie, over the top characters that border on the fantasy genre, but with the interesting twist of a hip-hop soundtrack and a ton of "foreigners" living in china.

RZA is no Tarantino and many times the "homage" tone of the movie passes as either lazy or simply exploitive, but the movie is well directed enough to be enjoyable most of the time...

The time when the movie is not enjoyable is exactly when RZA is on the screen. He looks and talks so slow, as if he is constantly high, and as the main character on the movie, he is simply uninteresting.
Specially when put side by side with other actors like Russel Crowe, Lucy Liu and Byron Mann.

Mann and Crowe really shine in this movie. Mann as the somewhat feminine leader of the gang of the lions, Silver Lion, he always looks like he is about to crack a smile and has that very seductive "puzzled look".
Crowe on the other hand plays Jack, a loud and proud british officer, who drinks too much and has a love for blood.

The movie has a rich plethora of characters, lovers who fight in sync, a bastard son whose armour is full of weapons and so on.

If you enjoy kung fu flicks and hip-hop (the OST is pure hip-hop) this is the movie for you, the mix of wild-west is pretty cool too.