War

Dir: Philip G. Atwell
Writ: Lee Anthony Smith & Gregory J. Bradley

Jet Li … Rogue
Jason Statham … Jack Crawford
Devon Aoki … Kira
Luis Guzmán … Benny

Supposedly this is a martial-arts action film about an FBI agent hunting down an assassin because he killed the cop’s partner. But in reality there isn’t enough plot for that. Which is very [...]

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Tagged:  2 Stars, action, assassin, Chinese Triads, corrupt police, crap, crime, Devon Aoki, FBI, Gregory J. Bradley, Japanese mafia, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Lee Anthony Smith, Luis Guzmán, martial arts, Philip G. Atwell, plotless, police, War

Fearless

aka Huo Yuanjia
Dir: Ronny Yu
Writ: Chris Chow

Jet Li – Huo Yoanjia
Shido Nakamura – Anno Tanaka
Dong Yong – Nong Jinsun
Betty Sun – Moon

Billed as Jet Li’s final martial arts epic, you should know to expect plenty of fight scenes in this film. But there is also a plot and a storyline too. One that revolves around [...]

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Tagged:  1869-1910, action, Betty Sun, C19th, C20th, China - history, China - Qing dynasty, Chinese, Chris Chow, Dong Yong, Fearless, fictional bio, fights, historical fiction, Huo Yuanjia, Jet Li, martial arts, Ronny Yu, Shido Nakamura, subtitled, wushu

Hero

Dir: Zhang Yimou
* Jet Li – Nameless Hero
If you’ve seen any trailers for this film you might be tempted to think of it as this year’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It isn’t. First of all it isn’t quite as good, but secondly the story is very different. Yes, both feature stunning [...]

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Tagged:  7 Stars, action, assassin, Hero, Jet Li, martial arts, Zhang Yimou