The owner of a Hong Kong entertainment company, Lu Tian, is interested in capturing the ape for use in a global commercial show, or to make a taxidermy of it, which would be worth a fortune.

Under the guidance of a local guide, the expedition team is led through the forest, which is deserted, and climbs up cliffs and through lakes and swamps, where they are attacked by elephants, tigers and poisonous snakes.

The army mobilizes helicopters and armored vehicles to kill Utam before Chen Zhengfeng and Ah-wei can stop his rampage first.

[1] The climatic confrontation scene was shot at the Connaught Centre in Hong Kong, which was then the tallest building in the country.

[3][5][6] Both Chungking Express and Mighty Peking Man was one of the two Hong Kong films released by Rolling Thunder, Quentin Tarantino's home video label in 1999.

[8] Variety reviewed a 100-minute long Cantonese-language version of the film stating it was an "interesting if not unique Hongkong-made escapist entertainment for the inquisitive middle-of-the-roaders audience of other countries."

In retrospective reviews, Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of a possible four in the Chicago Sun-Times, and, incidentally, actually upgraded his rating for the thematically similar Infra-Man:"Mighty Peking Man is very funny, although a shade off the high mark of Infra-Man, which was made a year earlier, and is my favourite Hong Kong monster film.

I am awarding Mighty Peking Man three stars, for general goofiness and a certain level of insane genius, but I cannot in good conscience rate it higher than Infra-Man.