The film tells the story of Thaddeus (RZA) who was found badly injured near a Chinese town in the nineteenth century. Miner Li Hong (Dustin Nguyen) and his wife Ah Ni (Eugenia Yuan) were able to bring this young man to the civilization for his recovery. After his recovery, this young man began a different experience as he placed the city's residents against the evil master Hu (Karl Ng) and the infamous Beetle clan as this journey turns into an epic of martial arts.
It has neither the colorful flair of authentic Hong Kong martial arts movies, nor the first Man With The Iron Fists' over-stuffed pastiche of the same.