Think of Bulletproof Monk, Chow Yun-Fat's new comic book action flick, as a kind of Kung-Fu Superhero Kid.

Chow is a mysterious nameless monk who has been entrusted with protecting a powerful magic scroll. The scroll contains the elixir of power and eternal life. Anyone who incants its verses can attain absolute power but mankind has yet to be proved worthy of its secrets.
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Bulletproof Monk is a martial arts adventure. The emphasis is on the action, and when it comes to storytelling, well, the emphasis is on the action.

For reasons that you'll never quite figure out, a former Nazi is pursuing an ageless monk, hoping to get his world-dominance mitts on an ancient scroll. Said scroll will permit the really, really old bad guy to take over the world.
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