清朝末年，天津城了出现一个恶霸地痞——玻璃花（陈宝国 饰），他无恶不作、欺行霸市。一日，卖豆腐的老实人傻二（王亚为 饰）和玻璃花较上了劲，争执中傻二甩开自己的辫子还击，玻璃花被抽得毫无还手之力，落荒而逃。不日玻璃花纠集了一伙武林高手来找傻二寻仇，憨二照样甩开自己又粗又长的还击，竟然打败了一众高手！从此“神鞭”傻二的名声传扬开来。八国联军入侵时，傻二加入了义和团，“神鞭”歼敌无数，立下了赫赫战功……
First of all, I have to say that I had huge expectations about the movie. I went to theater to see some mind-blowing action. I was hoping that Åke Lindman had made something spectacular as his last movie. I also believed in his directing talents. Now I sadly have to say that the movie didn't fulfill my expectations. The movie was a bit bouncing: Going there, doing that, coming back and going again. Different people fought in different places and sometimes it was hard to follow what was happening as a whole. Well this wasn't too disturbing as the movie still was entertaining. Especially all tank-scenes were amazing. The lack of money, which was clearly visible, was maybe the most disruptive thing in the movie. As mentioned in the movie, there were about 250 cannons and mortars, plus bomber planes, targeting the Tali-Ihantala area. But when the "big fight" came, it looked like about 10 guns were bombing the woods with smoke grenades (And I can say this because I have served in mortar company in the Finnish army). I'm sure it looked like that because there were not enough money to make it look realistic. I was also hoping more soldiers running in the woods because hey, it was supposed to be the biggest fight in the northern Europe!
