Movie Reviews for The Forbidden Kingdom

The Forbidden Kingdom

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Movie Reviews of The Forbidden Kingdom

Movie Review: Hmm
Summary: 3 Stars

The trailers for this movie made it look awesome, but unfortunately, trailers usually take the best clips of the film and hide the worst. This movie isn't awful, but it is not really worth buying, just renting.

It's like a East meets West thing with the main protagonist being a teenager who has to fulfill a prophecy and return this magical staff to the Monkey King - but honestly, this movie would have been much better without a Western element. The main character would have been just fine if he were a Chinese boy (or girl, whatever)

The best actor in this movie was the evil warlord. I especially liked his clothing, with all the intricate goldwork. Jackie Chan and the white-haired witch were also decent actors, but the Warlord was the best, and this movie would have been way better if not for some dorky American teenager who just happened to get sucked into this universe of the Forbidden Kingdom over some staff.

Movie Review: Weak acting ruin what should have been a better movie
Summary: 3 Stars

The Forbidden Kingdown is a decent one time watch but it really isn't anything worth watching again and again (unless you want to see the Jet Li and Jakie Chan fight scene over and over). The action and fight scenes are pretty good. The plot is weak but doable. It's the acting that really ruins this movie. I thought Jackie Chan was awful. His scenes pretending to be drunk were awful. He just totally didn't pull it off. I thought the main kid in this movie was pretty bad himself and the girl that followed the three guys around was pretty forgetable herself.

You'd think if you could afford Jackie Chan and Let Li that that they would be able to attract other actors who at least took some acting classes but that apparently was not the case.

Watch it once and then forget about it. It will be real easy to do.

Movie Review: Michael Angarano brings down a fun movie.
Summary: 3 Stars

This movie might have stood a chance at being special, but Michael Angarano got in the way. The rest of the cast did great, Jackie and Jet are enjoyable as you'd expect. It's still worth your viewing if you like them, but it's a rental.

Movie Review: fine
Summary: 3 Stars

The disc was disconnected from the case when I received it. I had to open the dvd (It was a gift for someone else) to reset it in place. There were fine scratches on the disc from being shakes around during the shipping process.