The Forbidden Kingdom
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Movie Reviews of The Forbidden Kingdom
Movie Review: 2 stars used as bait
Summary: 2 Stars
sigh.... you know when I heard that jet li and jackie chan where going to be in the same movie, I was stoked I couldn't be more happier to of martial arts biggest start going toe to toe, it was going to be epic....and epic fail it seems, what can I say about this movie, when you advertise star they better be the figgin star not some no-named kid that nobody has heard of this is a martial arts film with almost no fighting. this is a kids movie and nothing more, built upon a popular Chinese folklore and star power, now i will say that some of the scenes were wonderful, and the costume where decent, when I heard that this was a movie where jet li was going to play the monkey king i got a little hyper add jacky chan and well my head imploded but the fact is that its more about a kid that loves kung fu....so it basically kung-fu panda -minus the panda and the kung fu, i hate that they advertise the whole jet li and jackie chan thing but neglect to mention that there not the main character, its friggin karate kid or never ending story just nowhere near as good, if you 8 years old or haven't seen a real martial arts film you'll enjoy this but make no mistake this is not a kung fu film its barely even an action film it just sort of exist in its own limbo not really drifting ti any particular genre. if your looking for a film to watch with the kids then get kung-fu panda its better in every conceivable way, it even has more fighting maybe worth a rental but not something any self respecting kung-fu fan would ever put into there collectionMovie Review: Below Average Kung Fu Movie!
Summary: 2 Stars
I saw this movie couple times and both DVD and in the theatre. On average, this movie is below any kung Fu Movie either from China, Hong Kong or even Kung Fu Panda! Let me explain.
1. The main character Jason - the American kid he might be a teen ager, neither he is cute or handsome. I don;t why the director chose this guy, from the beginning to the end of the movie, I didn't see anything sparkling about him.
2. The basic color or tone of this movie looks like a old 60's or 70's style. From the beginning in Chinatown, ( any costume in the movie) to the end,... It's all very dark, old, looks really strange and like a batman movie, even the characters - forgot the name of the bad guy - his mandarin is very strange and his make up is too much.....
3. This might be a movie for families, but I think from beginning it;s still too vilentcy. It's not good for kid,
4. The two girls in the Movie- White hair girl and Golden Swallow, they're both very good actors from China, and from this movie, it's a waste for their talent.
5. Like what I said before, the basic tone of this movie is very dark, looks more like a animation and the scenery is very fake....
If you want to see real Ku fu movie- go to search any other Jet Li or Jacky Chan's movie, will be better than this one.
Movie Review: Rent it for the Jet/Jackie fight......nothing else.
Summary: 2 Stars
First, let me say that even among movies like the Wizard of Oz and The Neverending Story, and the Narnias where the kids must go from the real world into the fantasy world in order to save that world and become more mature...this movie sucks. It's even worse as a kung fu movie.
That two masters of the craft such as Jet Li and Jackie Chan would pick this as their first movie to do together tells me they didn't understand the English script too well. Even Yuen-Woo Ping's fight choreography was lacking in this and that is a first. The script is boring and plain. Chan is not as funny as usual. Li's character has little substance, and Yifei Lu has little reason to be there at all. The villains have names like the Witch and the Warlord, terrible. The kid was likable but, hard to believe he became a kung fu master in a few days and even when he did it looked bad.
The fight between Chan and Li is good even though it's set in the wrong film and they're a little older and slower, they're still 1000 times better than everyone else in the movie.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li both have hundreds of films between them and I'd recommend almost any over this.
Movie Review: This is bad, but I've seen worst.
Summary: 2 Stars
I wouldnt call this the worst kung fu movie I've ever seen. But as far as expectations go, it is the worst movie that I expected so much from. I mean I never thought I could see a movie with Jet Li and Jackie Chan together that would be terrible. I thought wrong.
The movie has some fictional kung fu and characters which Im not that big a fan of. Even still this is acceptable if the story is good. This movie falls way short of this. I mean the storyline is just bad. The dialogue sucks and it looks like no effort was put into this.
The only reason I didnt give it a one is because I liked the fight between Jet Li and Jackie Chan. I also thought the movie was warming up to a 3 in the end. It started to get a little interesting. But the fact that this movie was not well thought out just hurt it too much. I couldnt come to give it a 3.
The ending wasnt good, the beginning was corny, and the middle was so so. This combines for a lucky two. If you want to be disappointed by expecting a classic movie then go ahead and buy it. You've been warned, this movie is not even fair.
Movie Review: One of the few who didn't care for the movie...
Summary: 1 Stars
Forbidden Kingdom / B001BEK8HO
*Spoilers*
This doesn't seem to be the popular opinion among the reviews for "Forbidden Kingdom", but I absolutely couldn't stand this movie. Rather than do my usual plot-summary rundown, perhaps I'll just go this time with an itemized list.
1. Tired, reworn, retread, predictable. An awkward, western, white kid who has an uncool fascination with cheesy kung-fu movies, an inability to relate with the opposite sex, and a tendency to be beaten up by bullies is transported to a magical realm, taught the ways of fighting, falls in love with a doomed-to-die hottie, and is transported back after learning a valuable life lesson so that he can beat up the bullies and gain the love of the Real World Doppleganger Hottie he's never noticed before. Seriously? That plot gimmick was already painfully over-used when the lamentable Warriors of Virtue was attempting to combine the "Karate Kid" series with an Australian "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" flair. I mean, I had Christian YA books as a kid that were already using this plot line verbatim, and when you're ripping off decades-old third-rate YA books as the basis for your movie, you're scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
2. Juvenile. Does anyone over the age of thirteen seriously find it funny to have Jet Li urinate on Jackie Chan's head, while a parched Chan gratefully rubs the "rain" into his face and mouth? Har, har, it's PEE! Ugh.
3. Western. Admittedly, this was my fault, but I went into "Forbidden Kingdoms" looking for something like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, or Curse of the Golden Flower. What I didn't want or need was a CGI-fest that looked like George Lucas had been specifically enlisted in order to make everything even more colorfully fake-looking than The Phantom Menace. I mean, the opening mountain sequence of "Forbidden Kingdom" looks so fake it might as well be made of styrofoam.
4. Clichéd. I'm pretty sure it is never once explained why Golden Sparrow was hanging incognito in an eastern fantasy equivalent of a piano bar, waiting for our heroes (and I use the term loosely) to show up so she can save them. What's astonishing, however, is that none of the characters even bother to ASK - they've just accepted that they are in a movie and the awkward kid needs a hottie to mack on.
5. OK, this one is a bit longer. We've got this villain, possibly the only character in the movie that I liked. She has a potentially interesting backstory that is only hinted at: She's a witch who was raised by wolves (Did her parents abandon her to die? Was she lost or kidnapped?) and who distrusts men for undisclosed reasons hinting at a painful past filled with betrayal. The Jade Warlord summons her to his aid and provides a carrot (immortality) and, knowing his personality, a few sticks to motivate her. In the final fight, her only interest is in snagging the immortality elixir - she could care less whether the Jade Warlord wins or loses. So when the elixir is drunk by someone else, she should hoof it, right? She no longer has a bone in the fight, and she's been painted as a self-preserving character from the very beginning. Wrong. For no reason whatsoever, she hangs around to battle the new immortal, only so a grinning Jackie Chan can gleefully toss her over a cliff. If the movie had run the words "Girl had it coming" along the bottom of that scene, it wouldn't have been more blatant. This effect is not softened by the immediate-and-predicted death of the love interest who also had it coming because she was "consumed by vengeance" (bad) whereas the male characters were only fighting the Jade Warlord because it seemed like a fun way to pass the time (good).
I could go on, but I really shouldn't. It's entirely possible that children will like this movie, but really there are about a dozen other, older identical movies that are smarter, funnier, and contain fewer urine jokes in them, so why not watch those instead?