The Forbidden Kingdom
by Rob Minkoff
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Actor: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Juana Collignon, Michael Angarano, Yifei LiuDirector: Rob Minkoff
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of The Forbidden Kingdom
DVD Review: Rent it
Summary: 3 Stars
Disappointed...High production values. The idea of Jackie Chan and Jet Li sounded amazing but the main character is lame and the fight scenes are wire fighting which I don't particularly like. The story is awful but Bluray makes it viewable.DVD Review: Very boring!
Summary: 1 Stars
I like movies made by both Jackie Chan and Jet Li and are a fan of both of them because they are a few of the martial arts movie star who really know martial arts, just like Bruce Li. It is amazing that until this movie they had never made a movie together. Therefore I was quite excited when I heard about this movie and had read about it in Chinese magazine a year ago. Recently, I finally got hold a copy of it and to my chagrin it bored me to death. The plot is horrible, Jackie Chan talked too much, while the fighting scenes between him and Jet Li are not bad but the movie just did not go any where. I passed out in the middle of the movie and could not finish watching it. No wonder this movie is now on sales everywhere and is indeed cheaper than a used one.
DVD Review: DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
The product came pretty quickly and had no problems with it. I'm happy with my purchase.DVD Review: Jackie is a drunk
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow. I couldn't believe jackie chan plays a drunk in this movie. But somehow he plays it well. He's getting kind of old to be playing Kung Fu. Good story line and lots of action/ I rate this a ten.DVD Review: The language is just horrible.
Summary: 2 Stars
You can't just translate the Chinese language into english word by word. I was listening to all kinds of Chinese proverbs in English throughout the movie and it was unbearable. Chinese people don't speak like that; they don't use proverbs in all their daily talking. I can't stand it when Jackie Chan uses the words "civil examination". What does it mean? The script is horrible. It got two stars instead of one because the fight scenes are good in general.
Description of The Forbidden Kingdom
Individually, they've starred in the most adrenaline-pumping martial-arts adventures ever. Together for the first time, Jet Li and Jackie Chan join forces to create the greates epic of them all- THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM. As ancient Chinese warriors, they must train and mentor a 21st century kung-fu fanatic who's been summoned to fight a centuries-old battle and free the imprisoned Monkey King. If you're a fighting fan, the wait is over. The team is ready. The Kingdom has arrived.Getting martial-arts superstars Jet Li and Jackie Chan together in the same action film is like a fantasy come true, even if The Forbidden Kingdom is more of a children's movie than an instant kung-fu classic. Yes, Li and Chan square off in a lengthy, acrobatic fight scene that is a lot of fun, though it can't be what such a scene might have been even a decade ago: careful editing now compensates for the 54-year-old Chan's slower moves and reflexes. Still, Chan doesn't disappoint as Lu Yan, a drunken immortal in ancient China who mentors a modern-day American kid, Jason (Michael Angarano), the latter having slipped into the past while in possession of a magical staff that belongs to the imprisoned Monkey King (Li). In order to get back to his own time and help an old friend (also Chan) wounded by thugs, Jason accompanies Lu Yan and a lovely warrior, Golden Sparrow (Liu Yifei), on a journey to return the staff. Along the way, a (mostly) silent monk (Li, again), who has spent his life in search of the staff, joins their mission. He helps Lu Yan train Jason in fighting and adding more muscle to the party as it comes under siege from a violent witch (Li Bing Bing) and pathological warlord (Collin Chou). Screenwriter John Fusco (Hidalgo) and director Rob Minkoff (The Haunted Mansion) have made a slightly chintzy, Western version of a Chinese swords-and-sorcery tale. The gravity-defying, flying-through-the-air-while-fighting choreography looks pretty choppy and graceless compared to, say, the martial arts films of Zhang Yimou. But The Forbidden Kingdom is really aimed at kids, not aficionados of epic fight movies. On that score, the movie aims to please and does so for the right audience. -- Tom Keogh
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