Donnie Yen Movies Ranked by Tomatometer
We’re ranking the films of martial arts legend Donnie Yen! We start with Yen’s Certified Fresh films, including his first starring role in folk hero tale Iron Monkey from 1993, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (where he played blind Force disciple Chirrut Îmwe), and 2002’s Hero, which became the first Chinese-language film to top the American box office. Along with its packed cast featuring Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and Zhang Ziyi, Hero reunited Yen with Jet Li; the two had sparred in the epic Once Upon a Time in China II a decade earlier.
Yen’s versatility in choreography led to some of his first Hollywood appearances in the early 2000s (Blade II, Highlander: Endgame, Shanghai Knights), and he’s credited with popularizing in Asia both MMA (2007’s Flashpoint) and Wing Chun (the Ip Man series). Yen appears next in a highly anticipated match-up against Keanu Reeves in John Wick 4. —Alex Vo
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