AMAZING FIGURE MODLER Magazine Review:

In a hobby filled with hundreds of alien creatures; ghastly monsters, it’s always refreshing to see a human character properly rendered in resin. When the introspective Chinese action epic “Hero” hit our shores last fall fans; critics went crazy. Fortunately for us modelers, a talented Korean sculptor named Eric Won was so moved by this film that he choose “Hero” as his first U.S garage kit release. After opening the box I was excited to find 12 near flawless pieces of cream colored resin. The sculpt depicts Asian action star Jet-li in full battle garb clutching a sheathed sword. One arm outstretched with the other at his side.

Each piece is keyed to fit properly; only required small amounts of sanding to clean up slight mold seams. With not an air bubble or detail defect to be found, the figure went together in no time. I did however need to dip the sword in hot water to straighten out a slight warping of the resin. In terms of sculpture, Mr. Won knows his craft. Considering the figure is clothed from head to toe in traditional dress it is a definite plus that Eric’s style is tight and polished. Layer upon layer of flowing fabric is rendered to be smooth as silk; off setting the composition are numerous tight folds, intricate wrist wraps; a few very subtle battle tears in certain areas.
The physical anatomy is well handled benefiting from very natural hands; an extremely good facial likeness. I was especially impressed with Eric’s hair work. The Hero’s hair style consists of tightly pulled braids with a long section of mane hanging from a small bun, the kit sculpt portrays this accurately.

Another high point is the absolutely realistic handling of the Hero’s waist sash. Sculptors often render thin pieces of fabric thicker than life, causing modelers to tediously sand the pieces thinner for a more realistic look. Mr. Won includes a section of flowing belt sash that is paper thin yet totally stable. A very nice touch that adds some motion to an other wise static figure. Speaking of the pose, some modelers may prefer a more action packed stance to their kits but if you have seen this film it’s a more dignified presentation than the standard Jet Li movie. With that in mind, I feel Eric did the character justice by choosing a more regal/ determined pose. A display base; nameplate would have been nice, but modelers should have no problem creating a suitable place for this Hero to stand his ground.

With little prep work required and plenty of detail to paint this piece is  sure to please any fan of Jet-li. Eric Won is a welcome new edition to the hobby; his website has some great pics of his upcoming pieces, one of which is a stunning take of Mila Jovovich as Joan of Arc from “The Messenger“. Eric turned out a great first release, when The Messenger arrives he may very well become my Hero!

Highly Recommended.

Poison works very quickly. It has worked its way to my heart… Zhensheng, promise me you won’t seek revenge. Revenge will only bring us more bloodshed. Please, that’s not what I want. We must strive to become triumphant… Nong Jinsun, I only understand wushu. I practiced for many years to understand what Wushu is, what is wushu’s real purpose. The competition must continue. One cannot choose how one’s life begins. It takes courage to finish the final step.

– Huo Yuan Jia

Billed as Jet Li’s swan song to the epic martial arts movie, Fearless retells the true-life story of Huo Yuan Jia. He is known as being the best martial artist in China at the turn of the 20th century. I learned about this after I watched the movie. I thought that this was another martial arts movie, but it was a little different not by much.

As I said in the introduction, the film is about the life story of Huo Yuan Jia (Jet Li) primarily focusing on the last ten years of his life. All of this life, Yuan Jia wanted to be a great martial artist like his father. His father didn’t want his son to fight because of the asthma that he had since he was a boy.

Yuan Jia wanted to prove everyone wrong to be the number one fighter in the land. Not hearing his mother’s warnings, he becomes very cocky. He fights scores of warriors until Master Chin (Chen Zhi Hui) challenges him. They get into an epic fight where Chin is defeated. As an added consequence, a follower from Chin’s clan slaughters Yunjia’s family.

Devastated from the turn of events, he leaves his life behind to find the true meaning of the martial art. After years of exile, Yuan Jia comes back to his hometown to find the Jin Wu Sports Federation that has expanded to over fifty countries today.

I understand that Jet Li wanted to portray the greatest hero in Chinese culture. He wanted to end his martial arts movie life with this person. It’s like poetic justice, but it was stale in some parts of the movie. The action sequences are great, of course. You can plainly see the stunt doubles from some of the actors. Also, there is a sequence where a Japanese fighter is interacting with Yuan Jia where he is clearl dubbed. That is a capital offense in my book. Everything else is blah.

Judgment: If you want to see a half-ass attempt of a biopic, watch this movie.

Rating: ***

SURROGATES

Imagine a world where you don’t have to get up early in the morning, shower, get dressed, navigate traffic, get to work on time, dodge annoying bosses and equally annoying colleagues, avoid being given memos or suspensions for low performance evaluations or for doing such inane stuff as forgetting to turn off the light after office hours or taking too many coffee or bathroom breaks. Imagine a world where you don’t have to be subjected to the daily rudeness of people cutting in during queues, rude people in supermarkets, or groceries, or movie theaters, or inside public transportation. Imagine being spared the kind of physical torture that daily living in the modern, post-industrialized world of pollution, acid rain, excessive UV rays and crime generates. Imagine being able to stay at home, having a substitute who looks and talks like you, being able to do that for you, and all you have to do is jack into a network to be able to keep in touch with your substitute you as he/she goes through the daily rituals of modern living. Would be pretty nifty, huh?

This is the premise of the movie “Surrogates”. Based on a comic book and directed by Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), this movie takes our growing obsession with virtual reality (SIMS, online RPG games, farmville, facebook, myspace, twitter and so on) to a whole new level: we can have virtual selves, “surrogates” who walk and talk and act like us, doing the dirty work of living our lives while we stay in the comfort of our home viewing it from the sidelines. Except there is growing dissent and the predictable marginalization of people who cannot afford surrogates and thus is the stage set for virtual, and real racial tension between those who can afford surrogates and those who don’t and oppose their use. A series of murders involving surrogates and their owners occur and into this mystery steps in US Federal Agent Tom Grier (Bruce Willis in a freakishly photoshopped face and body…with blond hair no less…and bangs) and partner, Radha Mitchell as they try to solve these crimes. A series of convoluted plots later, Grier discovers that the founder of the company that produced the surrogates (James Cromwell – in a similar role he did in “I, Robot”) had engineered the murders to bring down the company he helped create so that he can destroy not only the company but also the surrogates and their owners. Needless to say, the real Grier emerges from his self-imposed isolation to solve the mystery, destroy the surrogates and save the day.

Verdict: Hmmm….hard to tell. It was entertaining, yes, but not compelling. There is something about a freakishly photoshopped Bruce Willis that is surreal. I doubt if virtual selves can be taken out of computers and online games and software and into real life. Thus, you would have to dismiss plausibility and delve into the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of the story. You already know what this story wants to say: Don’t live like a zombie, live your life authentically, etc.etc. A lot of other sci-fi (and non-genre) movies have already successfully tackled these issues. Perhaps what this film lacks is the same kind of thing that Mostow’s other movie, Terminator III lacked: spirit, soul, sass.

THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM

Let me just say, Jackie Chan rocks and Jet Li rules. For as long as I can remember, their movies dominated my childhood, along with the movies of such B-level actors as Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and Sylvester Stallone (macho Philippines, what can I say?). I have never seen them in one movie before, and to see them in one movie now excites like no other. And this movie, does not disappoint. Forget the plot, I watch Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies for the kung fu.

But briefly: in the days of Middle Kingdom some thousands of years ago, the virtuous Monkey King (Jet Li) wins the favor of the Jade Emperor and thus earns the ire of the Jade Warlord who tricks him into giving up his powerful staff and his power during a duel, thereby making the Jade Warlord win the duel, imprison the Monkey King in clay and allow the Jade Warlord to rule over the kingdom ruthlessly.

Enter present-day, unlikely geeky hero —- who stumbles upon the staff while trying to save a Chinese shop owner from a gang of bullies. The staff brings him to the past, to the Middle Kingdom, where he encounters an immortal, played by Jackie Chan, a monk, played by Jet Li and a young musician hell-bent on exacting revenge on the Jade Warlord. As it happens, our unlikely geeky hero turns out to be the Chosen One, the one who will end the Jade Warlord’s reign of tyranny, free the Monkey King and usher in a new era of peace. Thus, the immortal and the monk train aforementioned hero and helps him defeat the Jade Warlord and free the Monkey King.

Suffice it to say, just watching Jackie Chan and Jet Li fight it out in their scenes together with balletic elegance is awesome. They’re like the Robert De Niro and Al Pacino of kung-fu movies.

ADVENTURELAND

Remember those times in your life when everything just persists on being shitty? When you were young and had a kick-ass degree and upon graduation realize that neither your youth nor your degree can save you from a shitty life or from getting shitty jobs that pay shit wages? Well, don’t look now but somebody came up with the bright idea of making a movie out of your life. And mine, as it happens.

Jessie Eisenberg plays fresh comparative litt major whose father gets demoted and thus has to move with the whole family to Pittsburgh to be able to survive on the father’s salary. Jessie’s dreams of graduate school and of a summer spent in Europe are dashed to pieces, and he must now get a dead-end minimum wage job at “Adventureland” as one of the operators of the games. His life would have been infinitely boring and tedious had it not been for Em (the, must-admit, cute Kristen Stewart), the cool, laidback colleague he becomes mildly interested in and who shares a mild attraction to him as well, but who is, in fact, sleeping with the resident technician cum wanna-be rockstar, played by Ryan Reynolds. Things come to a head when Eisenberg finds out that Em has, in fact, been sleeping with the married Ryan Reynolds, but they make up in the end.

Universal edita Warlords. Más vale tarde que nunca, eso está claro.

Pero… la promoción que utilizan para venderla es “Del director de Hero y La casa de las Dagas Voladoras“.

Si estudiamos esa frase nos encontramos con que: Warlords, dirigida por Peter Chan. Hero y La casa de las dagas voladoras, dirigidas por Zhang Yimou.

Podría decir tantas y tantas cosas, que prefiero no decir ninguna.

Action filmmaker and producer Luc Besson has always had an eye for action and having the ability to showcase it in a strange and unusual way. He honed the skills of Jet Li and Jason Statham with glorious success. He even turned his ex-lover Milla Jovovich into a female wrecking machine.

Now Besson hopes to find the next great action star in French sensation David Belle who founded a new form of martial arts called parkour. This new form is basically where the artist attempts to pass obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible by running, jumping, climbing, sliding, ducking and so forth.

Co-writer Luc Besson and director Pierre Morel sculpt out a story where an undercover cop (Cyril Raffaelli) must infiltrate one of the nastiest neighborhoods in 2010 Paris. The neighborhood is District 13.

The cop is joined by a convict (David Belle) who will guide him in his pursuit to find a neutron bomb somewhere in the district. But the convict also has an agenda all his own. Don’t they always.

The film’s plot, setup, direction and cinematography leave a lot to be desired. But if they were all state of the art and amazing then I guess we wouldn’t really be able to see what Belle can do with his “parkour”.

The sequences where parkour is focused are amazing and the stunt work flawless. It kind of reminded me a lot of the better Jackie Chan movies. You know where you stop and say to yourself, how do they do that?

The acting in the film reminded me of old “Godzilla” movies or Power Rangers episodes because even though I saw the film with subtitles and in its original French it still looked like it was dubbed and the audio was horrendous.

A-class stunts + lame ass plot = rental. Or at least it does in my books.

1 out of 5

So Says the Soothsayer.

The Forbidden Kingdom è un film americano del 2008 , film d’avventura della Lionsgate e The Weinstein Company diretto da Rob Minkoff. E ‘il primo film in cui due dei nomi più conosciuti nel genere dei film di arti marziali, Jackie Chan e Jet Li recitano insieme. Le sequenze di azione sono stati coreografate da Yuen Woo-ping.

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Source: CRIENGLISH.com By Li Bo

Like most people, I got duped pretty hard on this movie. I was under the impression this was a Jackie Chan and Jet Li driven vehicle film but in actuality, The Forbidden Kingdom follows the main character of Jason Tripitikas.  As Jason is heading out of Chinatown, he gets stopped by some local bullies. They make fun of him about his kung-fu movies and then show him some of their own fighting style. After they beat him down they tell him to rob a pawn shop and runs into an old man with a staff. Jason runs from the thugs with a staff that the old man hands him. As Jason tries to get away, he falls and lands in a different world in a different time. He comes across a man named Lu Yan who tells him about his staff. That it once belonged to powerful man named The Monkey King and how he was tricked into a non fair fight and before the King was imprisoned he sent his staff away so that someone could come rescue him with it.

Obviously, this white kid is his saving grace.  By now, you should know if this movie is for you or not as this film may be America’s tribute to Asian cinema.  Truly, what better way to capitalize on these two Kung Fu stars than by pitting them against each other and letting the film capture as much of this once in a lifetime chance of getting these two Masters together in the same movie. While the fighting scene involving these two megastars is a very minor part of the film, the scene is undoubtedly the best fighting scene in the film. Jackie Chan vs. Jet Li was truly fun to watch. We all know it could’ve been Much better though if they were probably 10 or 15 years younger than they are, but it was still a great fight scene. Praying Mantis, Snake, Tiger, Crane, all types of Kung-Fu was used. It was definitely something to witness.

As they all travel across China to the fabled Five Elements Mountain, both the Lu and the Silent Monk take it upon themselves to teach Jason the art of Kung Fu, which will be a long and arduous process. The film overall can be regarded as a kung-fu fantasy and a better made one than a lot of others over the years. I suspect the Asian market may not care for it, as America-Asia films cross the cultural border very poorly. I think most martial art film fanatics will be slightly disappointed by this film, but many will enjoy this movie for what it is – entertainment with a couple of excellent choreographed martial art scenes.

The Forbidden Kingdom may not be a Martial Arts flick for the ages, but I have to say I really enjoyed this one. The movie is just so much fun that any flaws that can be found are quite easy to overlook. This isn’t gonna go down in history as one of the greats, but due to the first teaming of Li and Chan it will go down for that. We have young people, old people, amateur fighters and pros, pretty girls with pretty moms, exotic locales and a lot of seriousness mixed with goofiness and Chinese mythology. So if you haven’t come to a conclusion about this film yet, it doesn’t live up to the caliber of the actors involved but its a fun way to spend two hours.

Behind The Scenes

ya man Stallone still goin in at 62!?!?! WWWWWOOOOOOWWWWW…… matter fact, not even wow…. LEGEND!!!!! lol

Looks official…..the cast line up is crazy

So I figured since we are already in the mood for Stallone with last blogs update on possible Rambo 5 plotlines-wait, Rambo movies have plots?!! Anyway I just saw the official trailer finally for The Expendables! The all star cast action movie that’s written and directed by Sly himself! This movie is a throwback to 80’s action flicks and is sure to deliver the goods! Lots of explosions, machine guns and one liners! I found out that the trailer has been up now for a week or so but I don’t care-I just saw it for the first time ( plus a couple weeks ago when I checked it was taken down for some reason) and it looks like alot of fun! I still can’t believe Van Damme turned this down-what a shmuck! check it out…

A geological team looking for oil in the western desert of Egypt may have discovered the remains of some 50,000 Persian soldiers swallowed up by a sandstorm in the sixth century BCE. The “lost army,” mentioned by Herodotus in the fifth century BCE, has long been considered a myth, though that hasn’t prevented generations of adventurers from looking for evidence of the soldiers, sent by King Cambyses and (according to Herodotus) last seen at the oasis of Siwa. Maybe George Lucas should take note of this: Indiana Jones and the Lost Army could be a dynamite title for a movie. And, if memory serves, didn’t Robert E. Howard write a poem about Cambyses?        

Continuing in this mythological vein, Owen Sheers talks about White Ravens, his retelling of a story from the Welsh myth cycle The Mabinogion. The book sounds pretty good, but I still swear by Evangeline Walton’s retelling of the same story in The Children of Llyr. 

Get out your best gray flannel suit and work your way through “Books to Read Mad Men By,” listed by The Neglected Books Page in two installments here and here.  

Here’s the perfect stocking-stuffer for the Hayao Miyazaki fan in your family.

Robert Stone, author of Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise and Bay of Souls, is coming to Princeton University for a reading.  I am so there.

Everything’s turning up hobbits.

Bruce Lee or Jet Li? All I can tell you is that when I was a kid and The Green Hornet was on the tube, nobody ever pretended to be Britt Reid. Everybody wanted to be Kato. Pretending to use the Hornet’s Sting was a distant second.  

“This video is fantastic and highly educational. It teaches you how to whittle your own 19th Century dictionary, using only string, a turnip, and a clamp. But first you have to make your own Linotype machine.”

La mummia – La tomba dell’Imperatore Dragone è un film del 2008, diretto da Rob Cohen ed interpretato da Brendan Fraser e Jet Li.
La pellicola costituisce il terzo capitolo di una saga iniziata nel 1999 con La mummia e proseguita nel 2001 con La mummia – Il ritorno. Nel 2002 è stato prodotto uno spin-off della serie, Il Re Scorpione e nel 2008 Il Re Scorpione 2 – Il destino di un guerriero.

Leggi altre notizie su: | Avventura | Azione | Rob Cohen | Brendan Fraser | John Hannah | Jet Li | Maria Bello

Because you are getting two Top Ten lists in a day! Possibly more, if you went to some other blog and read one of their top 10 lists, but why would you do that?

Now, Hollywood might hate me (and does, as evidenced by consistently putting Keanu Reeves in films that might not have otherwise sucked), but Japan is still my friend.

I know this because of Alien vs. Ninja. God bless you, Japan. God bless your tentacle-loving hearts.

Squeeeeeeeeee!!!

The basic plot of Alien vs. Ninja is that aliens land and are fought by Iga Ninja, the best ninja of all (go to hell, Kouga ninja!). Why, yes, I am a shinobi otaku and have several books on the subject, why do you … ? Oh, you were asking sarcastically. I get it. I do! I get it.

At any rate, what could be better than ninja (especially Iga ninja) fighting aliens?

Only about ten things, that’s what! (But, really, only marginally better, because, damn! Alien vs. Ninja!)

1. Zombies vs. Ninja. Yes, I had to. You knew it was coming, so isn’t it best I got it out of the way right off the bat?

2. Androids vs. Ninja. Y’all do know a picture of the hot cylon Samuel Anders will be used to illustrate this point, don’t you?

Yeah, y'all totally knew.

3. Zombies vs. Ninja androids. I’m just sayin’, someone needs to build a ninja android. They could call it “The Stealthbot.” Or perhaps something less lame, I don’t know.

4. Kouga Ninja vs. Iga Ninja. Oops, they already did that. It was called “Basilisk.” (Or the Kouga Ninja Scrolls, if you’re talking the novel.)

Or "Shinobi," if you include the inferior film. (Yes, even DESPITE the presence of Tak Sakaguchi.)

5. Vampires vs. Ninja. Especially if it’s those pussy Twilight vampires, and we get to spend two hours watching ninja whale on them utterly.

Why can't the sparkling save me?! Whyyyy??

6. The cast of Cowboy Bebop vs. Ninja. I don’t remember a ninja episode. There was a crazy samurai episode. There should’ve been a ninja episode.

Yeah, sorry guys. You probably won't get fed in that episode either.

7. Ninja Assassin vs. Ninja. Went rogue, did ya? Face your former ninja teammates in some sort of, I don’t know, death battle! Actually, this is probably the plot of Ninja Assassin. (No, I don’t know what the plot of Ninja Assassin will be. I want to see it because it is called Ninja Assassin. I don’t care what it’s about. It has a ninja who is also an assassin.)

8. Samurai vs. Ninja. There’s probably tons of movies about this, but you know what? There could be more.

We ninja scoff at your samurai ideals of "honor" and "loyalty." Right before we stab you through the head. (From behind.)

9. Jet Li vs. Jackie Chan, and one of them is a ninja. Wouldn’t the just be the bestest movie ever?

10. Gunslinging android priests vs. Ninja zombies. O.M.G. Guys! What could possibly be cooler than zombies, androids and ninja in one movie? Nothing! Nothing could possibly be cooler! Best movie ever.

I would say the word "Braaaaains," but that goes against my Ninja code. I'll just snack silently, thanks.

Above: Actor and marshal arts expert Jet Li speaking on climate change for Cop15.

Here are some excellent questions which, if you’ve come to read this, will strike you as the sort which could be answered:

Is our species’ environmental clock really at 11:01 P.M.? With perfect prose and profound metaphor I would like to assure you it is, but half-a-century of experience and intuition about how humanity lives can’t help me put that into a sound-bite or paragraph. But, with patient, long-suffering experts like Tom Lovejoy telling us that we can expect that 1/4 to 1/3 of all species on Earth will perish unless we quickly pull our act together – now – that should get your attention and make you step into action. Tom also agreed that there’s no computer or scientist’s consortium – no modeling process – to accurately estimate the outcome of our species’ environmental influence.

Above: Desmond Tutu speaking on climate change for Cop15.

So if one assumes for the moment that we’re really in the middle of a big problem, what would be the next big step we could take to solve it? Would a multi-national conference with our best leaders be a good place to get rolling? Then the process of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would be that place, known lately in the media as Copenhagen, Cop-15 and other slang.

Above: Denmark’s Prime Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, speaks about climate change for Cop15 and mentions the YouTube setup to send your video directly into the meeting’s conference rooms.

If the things above are what’s happening, and they are, then what has the United States done about its part in the Cop15 process? Who are the players? What’s the agenda? The meeting of our elected and appointed officials starts on December 7, 2009 in Denmark. If you look around the Web or listen to the old broadcast media you won’t find anything of substance about what’s being done. Do you want anything positive to come of this?

Why would the process, goals and names of our U.S. delegation to the Copenhagen meeting – from one of the world’s model democracies, with one of the world’s most respected leaders be so hard to find? Does the president of one of the most powerful and influential nations in the world, responsible with China for most of global warming, have a video that says exactly what he’s going to do to solve these problems?

These are questions we’ll try and resolve on the next Blue Planet Almanac, 11-23-09

Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, and Dolph Lundgren in the same movie?  I thought this would be the best, cheesiest, 80’s throwback action movie, but the trailer just makes it look awful.

El último fin de semana, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger y Bruce Willis se reunieron durante seis horas para rodar una de las escenas que Stallone está dirigiendo en ‘The Expendables’. Sly habló tras esta secuencia con Entertainment Weekly, revelando detalles acerca de esta escena central de 5 minutos que pondrá en marcha la película.

He aquí un extracto: “La escena cumbre tiene lugar en una iglesia, donde el antagonista Willis ha convocado a Stallone y sus mercenarios para finalmente encontrarse con él cara a cara, tomar un primer contacto, y posiblemente contratarle para una desafiante misión donde tendrá que retar a la muerte. Pero al igual que la reunión se pone en marcha con Stallone, Willis se reunirá con otro asesino a sueldo – antiguo rival de Stallone – , para ofrecerle el mismo trabajo: Ah-nuld”.

“Bruce me dice que hablará con otra persona antes de contratarme definitivamente. Y entonces Arnold, que interpreta a mi antiguo rival, entrará en la historia. Vamos de acá para allá y yo le digo que debí matarlo hace mucho tiempo, cuando tuve la oportunidad. Y allí estamos los tres, tratando entre nosotros, jugando con lo que somos”.

Con estreno programado para el 20 de agosto de 2010, la película también estará protagonizada por Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Charisma Carpenter, Giselle Itie, Brittany Murphy, David Zayas y Amin Joseph.

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell come out of retirement in 1946 to travel to Shanghai, where they are tricked into helping resurrect an evil 2,000 year old emperor played by Jet Li. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor takes us on a guided tour of the catacombs of ancient China and the peaks of the Himalayas, with a pit stop in postwar Shanghai. The lavish landscapes aside, its the only real compliment I can give this film. Right off the bat I noticed Jet Li barely gets to throw a single roundhouse punch. Half the time he’s just a glorified special effect.

The movie tries to entertain us with a series of daring escapades and breathtaking spectacles, but unfortunately these attempts fall flat. Fans of The Mummy series will most likely go to see this movie for its great action and almost comic peril as well as to complete watching the entire series. The third in the series, this film falls short of the original on several grounds. First, it’s the same take on the old premise. The film only ventures into new territory in terms of geography, and like The Mummy Returns, the storyline mirrors the first, down to the mummy being cursed as a result of infidelity.

In the first few minutes of the film we are subjected to boring narrative, like a history lesson that isn’t real. This movie is insulting to the audience, constantly demanding that we blindly ignore simple logic. Special effects are on the same level as the previous 2 mummy movies (if not a little bit better) but does not come close to the success of The Mummy or The Mummy Returns. Jet Li makes a good villain, despite being terra cotta for the most part. With Michelle Yeoh, Luke Ford and Isabella Leong being welcomed additionals to the cast.

I was a bg fan of the first two films but thanks to this film I have no attachment to the Mummy franchise or characters. I don’t care about them in any way, shape or form. The only salvage I can recommend is that this is another notch in Michelle Yoeh and Jet Li’s mainstream crossover success.  Rachel Weisz was smart to stay away from this movie. The leads give unconvincing, wooden performances, and Bello and Fraser have zero chemistry. This movie came across as a rush job and the end result was bad dialogue, bad acting and even worse a weak storyline. Watch this movie for the action scenes but don’t count on a solid movie experience.

ogue – Il solitario è un film del 2007 diretto da Phillip G. Atwell, il film è stato più volte censurato a causa di ripetute sequenze di violenza e nudo, è uscito negli Stati Uniti il 24 agosto 2007, in Italia il 18 luglio 2008.

Leggi altre notizie su: | Azione | Thriller | Philip G. Atwell | Jet Li | Jason Statham

李連杰 “One Yuan, One Vision“,

His own attitude changed when the Asian tsunami of 2004 struck while he was on holiday in the Maldives with his family—he has been married twice and has two children from each marriage. “Water is here,” he says, raising his hand to his chin. “My younger daughter’s taken by the water, someone saved her.”

The experience left him with an injured foot and a conviction that it was time to “pay back to society, to the world”. He spent two years studying how to build an effective foundation, seeking out advice from the best in the giving business, Bill Gates among them, and officially launched the One Foundation in 2007.

Another natural disaster, the huge earthquake that struck China in May 2008, proved catalytic—both for One and for Chinese philanthropy in general. Many of China’s super-rich felt that they had a civic duty plus the all-important government approval to give publicly for the first time. Meanwhile, Li provided the vehicle for China’s emerging middle class to give smaller amounts to help their compatriots. In response to his text message, One received 50m yuan ($10m) in a week.

李連杰的 One Foundation.

Reklama piwa San Miguel z udziałem Manny Pacquiao oraz Jet Li.

Bestsellery w sklepie Pretorian – sprawdź teraz!

Ontem cheguei em casa meu pai estava dormindo na poltrona e esse filme passando. Ele subiu pra dormir e eu fiquei vendo o filme(apesar de já ter assistido). Na verdade, eu assisti esse filme logo assim que ele saiu, afinal de contas é Jackie Chan e Jet Li num mesmo filme! Os dois são monstros do Kung Fu(pelo menos em Hollywood) e nunca haviam atuado juntos.

Pra quem é meio aficionado pelo oriente(como eu xP) o filme é um prato cheio. Uma história fantasiosa cheia de sugestões e ligações com a mitologia chinesa e tendo como base a história chinesa “Jornada ao Oeste”. O filme é cheio de pequenas citações que eu até tive que procurar pra saber de onde eram, percebi um erro de descontinuidade quando assisti dessa vez e como sempre me maravilhei com as cenas de luta.

Papel de parede do filme

Diferente de alguns filmes que você passa metade do tempo falando que aquilo é mentira, O Reino Proibido usa umas cenas tão bem feitas, que você fica pensando se eles usaram efeitos especiais ou realmente fizeram aqueles movimentos. Pra quem não gosta de filmes de lutas muito intrincados pode assistir tranquilo. Durante o filme você ri em várias cenas entre o protagonista e Jackie Chan. Também conta com suas partes dramáticas como a morte da ******SPOILER***********pardal ou quando ele é obrigado a ajudar os valentões a assaltar a loja.

O filme também conta com algumas sacadas filosóficas que te deixam pensando(motivo desse post!) e passa uma mensagem legal pra audiencia. A melhor pra mim é essa:

“If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live? I would rather die a mortal, who has a care for someone, than a man free from his own death.” – Lu Yan

Traduzindo seria algo do tipo, “Se um não se apega a pessoas e desejos, seu coração nunca vai ser quebrado. Mas então, será que ele alguma vez viveu de verdade? Eu preferiria morrer um mortal, que tem alguem importante, do que um homem livre do seu próprio coração.”

Cara, você tem que adimitir,  ele mandou muito bem nessa! Nunca vou encontrar um momento pra usar uma frase dessas. Quem sabe quando tiver um filho eu não mando uma dessas xD

Mas voltando ao filme, ótima opção pras noites de sábado chuvoso ou quando a festa mela. Não se tornou nenhum clássico mas não deixa nada a desejar!

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