MOVIE: The Forbidden Kingdom

The Forbidden Kingdom stars action legends Jackie Chan (who plays Lu Yan) and Jet Li (tplaying the Monkey King and The Silent Monk) along with Michael Angarano, Yifei Liu (played Sparrow) and Collin Chou playing the Jade Warlord.

Well the main plot of The Forbidden Kingdom starts off with the Monkey King (Jet Li) causing mischief against the Jade Warlord, andThe Jade warlord challenges the Monkey King to a duel. During the duel the Jade Warlord (Collin Chou) turns the Monkey King into stone just after the Monkey King casts his staff away.

Switch to sort of present day and we see Jason (played by Michael Angarano). He get out of bed and goes to a store in China town to buy some kung fu movies (this is were we see Jackie Chan playing the shop owner). Afterwards he gets chased after by as group of bullies and Jason is ends up inside The Forbidden Kingdom. Here he first meets Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and they start a journey to help return the staff to his rightful owner. On the way they meet Sparrow (Yifei Liu) and the Silent Monk (played by Jet Li).

As being a big Jackie Chan Fan some could thing that this is a no brain of which way I might swing, but I much say that I did enjoy it but there are some issues I had with the movie. Although overall did I enjoyed The Forbidden Kingdom very much. Throughout the movie I was smiling from ear to ear in amazement.

First the good. Over and over, film after film Woo-ping Yuen always delivers when It comes to the choreography. Jackie Chan and Jet Li both are excellent during there selection of fight scenes with the best of course being when the two fought each other. I thought a lot of the scenes were really funny from when both Chan and Li were teaching Jason some kung fu, and even the "rain"scene put halfway into the movie. I also like Jet Li's version of the Monkey King I thought he was hilarious at some of the scenes, and really entertaining to watch.

As for what I disliked about the movie was a couple things. First I thought the direction could have been done a little better. Also in the beginning the actors that were picking on the main character couldn't act worth a damn, and I thought that the kid Michael Angarano was iffy, nothing that great. Shadowed by the real stars of the show Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Another think I must note is that I thought that the romance scenes really didn't need to be there. I don't understand why there always has to be at least some of a romance plot in movie that it obviously bogs down the rest of the story.

The Forbidden Kingdom was a wonderful movie I enjoyed very much. To see Jet Li and Jackie Chan attack each other with different style was very exciting, and could be one of funniest and entertaining fight scene for awhile. I would Strongly Recommend The Forbidden Kingdom.

MOVIE: Jet Li's Fearless

Fearless is Jet Li last martial Arts Epic, and boy did he go out on a great note. Just like Hero, which came out in 2005, the look and feel is basically the same. Fearless is a story about a man who would note let his nation be the laughing stock of the would, while the nations from the west came into China and was destroying all the fighters that were there at the time and his journey to show his people can fight too.

Right off at the bat Fearless wastes no time at bring the action to the audience, With mere seconds you are engulfed into a brawls which is very nicely put together, As a matter of fact all the fights were really well done, well done Yuen Wo-Ping, who is if you done know one of the greatest Choreographer anyone as ever seen in the movies. His credits range from: Unleashed, Kung Fu Hustle, All three Matrix's, Revolution, and Reloaded, to Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2.

Jet Li play a man named Huo Yuanjia, who is the son of one of the great fighter in China, match after match Huo gets himself such a large following that he his know throughout the lands of Tianjin. As his popularity expands and grows so does Huo head, which later lands him in a self discovery on who he was and as he develops he create a Federation to stand up against these people from the west.

Jet Li is a great actor, but he also isn't the only great actor that is in this film there is Collin Chou, who for the most part played Seraph in Matrix's Revolutions and Reload, in those two film he had a great fight scene with Neos character. There is also Masato Harada who is a actor who played in the Last Samurai with Tom Cruse, He is also a wonderful Writer and Directer I will recommend any of his film.

Fearless is a great film overall but I do know there are many people who don't like the Subtitle part, most likely on the DVD release in America it will come with a English Audio Track inside with the original language. Even if you don't like to read Subtitles while you are watching a film I would still recommend this film to you, basically because of the action is so amazing that you'll know exactly whats happening by both the fighting styles and the actors emotion in each scene.