From what I heard, this is actually a
remake of Jet Li's film debut,
The Shaolin Temple. It was just after the breakup of the Qing Dynasty. The local warlords and the foreign powers are fighting among each other for power and wealth. Warlord Hou Jie (Andy Lau) chases down rival Huo Long to Shaolin Temple, and shoots him dead, despite the monks' pleas for mercy. Afraid that his sworn brother might want to share in the spoils, he hatches an assassination plot. He finds out too late that his brother has no such plan. Worse, his own right-hand man Cao Man (Nicholas Tse) betrays him, and turns the assassins on him and his family. His daughter dies during the ambush, and his wife eventually leaves him. The cook (Jacky Chan) in Shaolin takes him in and teaches him compassion and enlightenment. Hou Jie later discovers that Cao Man has been selling relics to foreigners in exchange for arms.
He hires labourer to dig up these relics, then kills them off after the job. Cao Man eventually locates Hou Jie and send his army to catch him. The foreign powers decides it's a good time to wipe out everyone and starts bombarding Shaolin. Hou Jie sacrificed himself to save Cao Man from certain death from a falling beam, thereby repaying an earlier debt. The monks managed to fight back to foreign devils, but the temple is left in ruins.
From what I heard, this is actually a remake of Jet Li's film debut, The Shaolin Temple. It was just after the breakup of the Qing Dynasty. The local warlords and the foreign powers are fighting among each other for power and wealth. Warlord Hou Jie (Andy Lau) chases down rival Huo Long to Shaolin Temple, and shoots him dead, despite the monks' pleas for mercy. Afraid that his sworn brother might want to share in the spoils, he hatches an assassination plot. He finds out too late that his brother has no such plan. Worse, his own right-hand man Cao Man (Nicholas Tse) betrays him, and turns the assassins on him and his family. His daughter dies during the ambush, and his wife eventually leaves him. The cook (Jacky Chan) in Shaolin takes him in and teaches him compassion and enlightenment. Hou Jie later discovers that Cao Man has been selling relics to foreigners in exchange for arms. 
He hires labourer to dig up these relics, then kills them off after the job. Cao Man eventually locates Hou Jie and send his army to catch him. The foreign powers decides it's a good time to wipe out everyone and starts bombarding Shaolin. Hou Jie sacrificed himself to save Cao Man from certain death from a falling beam, thereby repaying an earlier debt. The monks managed to fight back to foreign devils, but the temple is left in ruins.
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