I don't know what is good in this movie?I can see only two things.First,Jackie Chen fighting scenes.That man can really do everything he wants with his opponents.But we all know that Jackie can fight without cascaders.Second,a I will only say the scene with glue.That is my favorite scene in this film.Bad sides are everything else.Special effects are bad and I think they ran out of money.The script is OK but sometimes you feel like this is too much.I couldn't bare to see the end of this movie.It is boring and long.Very,very long.I felt like there is no ending and we've all see that type of story.I think that the script was a little bit too much for the director.Those scenes where they actually fly are so poorly made that I didn't know what to do.To laugh or cry.I like Jackie Chen's work but this one is just bad.
... View MoreJackie Chan's "The Myth" is a partial return to form. As you probably already know, the movie is for the most part split into two concurrent storiesa costume drama in ancient China and an action/comedy in the modern day, with JC playing the main role in both. I enjoyed the lighter modern day story, the action scenes in which reminded me a lot of those in "The Accidental Spy." The attempt at heavier drama in the ancient China segments, however, left me cold. I have nothing against costume action drama as a rulebut I like it not to be so dang leaden and dull. And "Crouching Tiger" this isn't. Apart from the opening scene with the runaway wagon and some brief snippets of swordplay, the costume drama fell flat. In fact, most of the time that Jackie is in that general's helmet, the movie is plain dead. But the action set pieces in the modern day segments are about as close to vintage Jackie as I think we can expect from the 50+ star (and I'd venture to say that the "glue" bit is just as good as any of his previous action/comedy pieces). I know this is heresy to say, but if "The Myth" gets an American release I hope whoever distributes it cuts out at least half of the costume drama's screen time. That part of the film should be made to strictly serve the modern story.
... View MoreI've always been a fan of Jackie Chan. His ability to act serious and comedic has always been his strengths, this movie however was highly disappointing pretty stupid and definitely overrated.This story had potential but was poorly executed. Could have been good as 2 separate movies however combined make such a poor combination it can be compared to dipping lychee's in salt.On the one hand you have Jackie Chan in an epic love story past and present, dreams and millennium long promises waiting to be fulfilled. Epic battle sequences with adventurous archeology.However on the other hand you have Jackie Chan in his usual comedic self fascinated by dreams, action and comedy.Now if you add them together you have a serious script with added action comedy which ruin the mood, random useless scenes in India which in no way further the plot and instead a not very entertaining filler smack bang in the middle where crucial plot development could occur. The very beautiful Indian girl disrupts the main and real love story in the movie between the Korean girl. Sexual references in this movie especially when we see flashes of underwear from the Indian girl are quite inappropriate in this film. Sexual references with the Korean girl arguably could have been necessary.Tony leung kar Fai is a pretty horrible actor (well in this film anyway). He has no chemistry whatsoever with Jackie Chan. His presence weaken the plot and his fateful end leaves viewers with no emotion for him whatsoever, personally i laughed at his pitifulness. The action epic battle sequences in the Qin era were pretty impressive i must say especially the mountain of a Slain army.Quite a disappointing entry from Jackie Chan. This movie is in no way art-house, highly overrated and extremely poorly executed
... View Morethis a hot movie. worth my time and money. the music in it is great. don't know much of Chinese history but wart the heck it's a fantasy/action flick so it's hot. Jackie killed a mountain of people. tell me how gangster is that. that's some real stuff n hardcore. the boy got skills. HOTT HOTTT HOTTT ass movie yup. A role which I never seen him played before. I never really seen him play a romantic person or love a girl any his movies. Maybe just a handful if I do recall. He could have shown more affection toward the princess (whoa ain't she fly)and like kiss her or something. The Mallika girl wow, she is a fly girl. Could fight nice too. One of the best Jackie Chan movies I had ever seen. It's good to see they using a lot of CGI now. It was funny the horse was kicking major asses. It possible rite? is it? They should have made an extra special DVD which chronicles the life of General Meng Yi. Interesting guy. His fights and all that good stuff.
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