Following three successful Wong Fei-hung pictures that helped revitalize Hong Kong's gung fu cinema output Jet Li walked away from the "Once Upon a Time in China" series over professional disputes with writer/producer/director Tsui Hark. Not surprisingly, Wong Jing lay in wait.

Here, Wong plays almost anything he can for laughs, even women abducted by members of The Boxer Rebellion and sold into prostitution.

Wong hired sibling action choreographers Yuen Wo-ping and Yuen Cheung-yan to ramp up the wirework and under-cranking to add an extra touch of lunacy before risking Li's career by having him appear in a rooster costume, which to this day is a sore subject with Li's minions.

Truthfully, as a parody of the immensely popular "Once Upon a Time in China" series that sees Jet Li poking fun at the role that made him a star "Last Hero in China" works.