Rating: NR
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 07/29/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: Cantonese/English
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Dragon Dynasty
Hong Kong star
Jet Li portrays the inventor of T'ai Chi in this entertaining if not historically accurate
martial-arts movie.
Junbao (
Li) and
Tienbao (
Chin Siu-Ho) are a pair of young monks studying kung fu in a Shaolin temple.
Junbao is balanced and humble, but
Tienbao is competitive and eager to advance. The two are wrongfully accused of cheating during a tournament and are expelled. From there they take radically different paths.
Tienbao becomes a mercenary for an evil warlord, and
Junbao joins a rebel group led by
Michelle Yeoh.
Tienbao betrays
Junbao;
Junbao loses his memory in the resulting fight. While recuperating, he develops the graceful T'ai Chi fighting style. Although many may find the cartoonish, acrobatic fight sequences to be campy, they are elaborate and dazzling.
~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, Rovi
