Story:
Jet Li arrives from Hong Kong to visit his master who
owns a small chinese medicine shop. Soon as he arrives
in American a small gang try to rob him but they fail
miserably. Jet Li finds his master's shop but its been
boarded up with no sign of him. Jet Li finds out that
his master went missing over a month ago and goes to
find him. During the way he finds out an ex student
of his master has challenged him for dominance the Kung
Fu world. Jet Li must help his master and fight the
ex student.
Review: Out of all the Jet Li movies this
one has the reputation of being the worst of all those
movies ever, but that does not mean you wont enjoy
it. The main reason this movie was rated as the worst
was because of the terrible acting on the part of
the American characters. With the acting and the situations
it gives the movie an extreme cheesy feel. Jet Li
and his master are the only decent actors.
The concept behind the story was good and it could
of been made into something really great but instead
it turned out really cheesy. There are a lot of strange
scenes in the movie some nobody comes into the story
does something and disappears and you don't know why
he was there. Also these strange scenes leave you
a bit confused.
As for the characters in this film other that Jet
Li's master they were pretty much uninteresting. Even
Jet Li seemed like a tourist at times. This movie
had the largest group of first time actors in the
background we ever saw and as our guest reviewer for
today says they're acting is worse than in a porno
film.
The one good thing we can say about this movie is
the Kung Fu of Jet Li does not fail. He is both serious
in his acting as he is serious in his martial arts.
His moves are excellent and so are the moves of his
master in the movie but unfortunately they are the
only ones with any decent fighting talent as the rest
of those who fight are pretty lame. Even if the fight
talent was not that good the large battles were interesting
except for one annoying detail there was always someone
coming to interrupt the fight.
The subtitle were the standard medium quality but
half the people speak english so you forget about
reading the subtitles completely. This movie can be
either terrible or it can be hilarious, it all depends
in which mind set you watch the movie in. It is by
far a cheesy movie that has not much going for it
other than Jet Li and as for the rest of the people
who appeared in the film they'll probably never get
another acting job again. When we saw this movie we
could not stop laughing, if your a group of friends
and want to watch a movie and not take it seriously
you can find this movie entertaining (that is the
reason for the duel rating). For serious viewers are
advised to keep away from this movie as you will no
doubt find it terrible, stupid and a waste of your
time. It is up to you to take the risk.
