fpw Wrote:Much as I like chop-socky films and Jet Li, I didn't like this. Don't know exactly why. Maybe the underlying setup -- treating a man like an animal and training him to be an attack dog -- is too grim for me. The 3-act structure is too formulaic and predictable. Some of the fight scenes -- especially the one with the guy in the white gi -- went on far too long.
FF= 5
I liked the film, except for the fight scenes. As usual, all of Jet Li's fight scenes are so theatrical and very unrealistic. They really bore me. It's funny, Jet Li is regarded as such a martial artist (he's no fighter), but Brad Pitt's fight scenes in Snatch were light years ahead of Jet Li.
The rest of the film was actually much better than I expected. I really liked the three main characters, and hated the villian. That's the point right?