Okay,
Finally finished the flick. I have to say its a fitting end to Jet Li's martial arts cinema career.
The film follows founder of the Jin Wu Sports Federation (Huo Yuanjia). The movie starts with himon a path of destruction and revenge. Upon the death of an adversary at his hands his family is killed and he spirals out of life. In his darkest he finds salvation in a village of people and eventually returns to civilization with the balance he needed. He starts up the JinWu school of martial arts and well... I'll leave the rest to the viewing.
The fight scenes in the movie are excellent. They're very VERY reminisant of the ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series and my personal favorite FIST OF LEGEND.
The first half of the movie is basically a series of fights between himself, challengers and eventually the man who beat his father.
The 2nd half slows down a bit as he sort of understands the flow of life, and eventually the last 20 or so mins he returns to the ring and his "legend" begins.
The movie is excellent... it can get a little slow at times, as a lot of "period" pieces do, but man... I loved it. I definitaly think it rates up there with Fist of Legend as my personal favorite Jet Li film.
The martial arts, Wushu, is amazingly fluid, and while its definitaly wirework you still sit there enthralled at the screen.
Here's a clip. I encoded it using a STANDARD encoder this time, but if you have trouble playing it (32megs) let me know. Its the first 5mins of the movie (including credits). If you have trouble playing it I'll rerun it through a new encoder into Quicktime/WMV standards. If you do have trouble playing it (I cant test cause I have every codec imaginable on my machine) try using VLC or just download and install the K-LITE CODEC pack.
(right click ... save-as)
All in all... considering this will be his last martial arts flick, I am not let down.
Finally finished the flick. I have to say its a fitting end to Jet Li's martial arts cinema career.
The film follows founder of the Jin Wu Sports Federation (Huo Yuanjia). The movie starts with himon a path of destruction and revenge. Upon the death of an adversary at his hands his family is killed and he spirals out of life. In his darkest he finds salvation in a village of people and eventually returns to civilization with the balance he needed. He starts up the JinWu school of martial arts and well... I'll leave the rest to the viewing.
The fight scenes in the movie are excellent. They're very VERY reminisant of the ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series and my personal favorite FIST OF LEGEND.
The first half of the movie is basically a series of fights between himself, challengers and eventually the man who beat his father.
The 2nd half slows down a bit as he sort of understands the flow of life, and eventually the last 20 or so mins he returns to the ring and his "legend" begins.
The movie is excellent... it can get a little slow at times, as a lot of "period" pieces do, but man... I loved it. I definitaly think it rates up there with Fist of Legend as my personal favorite Jet Li film.
The martial arts, Wushu, is amazingly fluid, and while its definitaly wirework you still sit there enthralled at the screen.
Here's a clip. I encoded it using a STANDARD encoder this time, but if you have trouble playing it (32megs) let me know. Its the first 5mins of the movie (including credits). If you have trouble playing it I'll rerun it through a new encoder into Quicktime/WMV standards. If you do have trouble playing it (I cant test cause I have every codec imaginable on my machine) try using VLC or just download and install the K-LITE CODEC pack.
(right click ... save-as)
All in all... considering this will be his last martial arts flick, I am not let down.
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