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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Comedy /
Fantasy /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Rob Minkoff
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Actors:
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Jet Li,
Yifei Liu,
Juana Collignon,
Morgan Benoit,
Jack Posobiec,
Thomas McDonell,
Zhi Ma Gui,
Shen Shou He,
Bin Jiang,
Shaohua Yang,
Yu Yuan Zeng,
Michael Angarano,
Jackie Chan,
Collin Chou,
Bingbing Li
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)211
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Plot Summary:
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An American kid who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary origination in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary continue weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey Majesty. With the lost relic in dispense, the adolescent unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to grey China to sign up with a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Interfere with Ruler.
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Forbidden Kingdom, The
Dennis HarveyThose salivating at the thought of Jet Li and Jackie Chan going mano-a-mano are likely to be among the more disappointed customers for The Forbidden Kingdom. While top-billed duo do indeed occupy plenty of screen time, this is basically the latest version of that post-Star Wars fantasy concept in which only a middle-class white teenage boy can save the universe from, y'know, Evil. On its own terms, it's a handsome albeit unexceptional juvenile adventure shot on some magnificent Chinese locations by d.p. Peter Pau. Biz should be healthy if unspectacular, with stars boosting Asian markets, and strong ancillary sales.
Script by John Fusco (Young Guns, Hidalgo) is loosely based on the classic Chinese epic Journey to the West, incorporating nods to variou...
Forbidden Kingdom, The
Kenneth TuranThe Forbidden Kingdom is kung fu light, the kind of martial arts family film that results when the director who made Stuart Little and The Lion King gets to work with Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
Of course, the great martial arts films of the past didn't exactly feature scripts by Ingmar Bergman or Graham Greene. What they did have was a hard-core integrity that reveled in exhilarating action and didn't worry overly much about market share.
However the presence of high-profile executive producers like Ryan Kavanaugh, Raffaella De Laurentiis and Jon Feltheimer in addition to producer Casey Silver and director Rob Minkoff signals that Kingdom has been envisioned as a major international moneymaker that, in De Laurentiis' words, "will appeal to bo...
Forbidden Kingdom, The
Nobody eternally watches a kung-fu action movie in the course of the humorous dialogue or sparkling performances - the prime attractant is usually the full-on, dazzlingly choreographed affray, and at least in that respect, The Forbidden Kingdom is a pleasant her. Plenty of Hollywood movies should prefer to tried to poop out Eastern martial arts onto a less violent, more family-neighbourly package - particularly those starring Jackie Chan - and most of these own failed to get anywhere approximate on the ‚lan or intricacy of Hong Kong cinema at its finest. The Forbidden Sovereignty's altercation sequences away surprisingly taciturn notwithstanding that, and it's the beforehand time after time that Chan has approached the quality of work dis...
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