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Dir: Rob Minkoff.
Cast: Michael Angarano, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Yifei Liu, Collin Chou
Description: Outcast schoolboy Jason often hangs around Chinatown, sorting through the DVDs at a pawn shop run by the decrepit Old Hop. Unfortunately, the lad becomes the target for a gang of bullies and they use Jason to force their way into the old man's shop, shooting the owner in the process. Jason flees with a golden staff rumoured to belong to the legendary Monkey King. In the ensuing chase, the boy is magically transported to ancient China where the Jade Warlord seeks the talisman in his possession. Thankfully, drunken master Lu Yan rescues Jason from the warlord's minions and begins to tutor the schoolboy in the art of fighting.
Country: US. 2008. 104mins
Enter the drunkard: Jackie Chan as the alcoholic kung fu master summoned to teach his trade
It's taken a long time for Jackie Chan and Jet Li to appear together, so it's a pity that Rob Minkoff's film is so perfunctory and silly. But Chan in particular, who has always had a modest charm that belies his worldwide fame, does his best to make it work and the more taciturn Li turns on appropriately swirling kung fu action for the legendary choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping.
Michael Angarano plays Jason, a modern teen and kung fu enthusiast who is transported to a mythical China when he gets hold of a magical fighting staff. He must deliver it to the Monkey King, who has been turned into stone by an evil warlord (Collin Chou). But first Chan, who plays an alcoholic kung fu master, has to teach him the rules of the game, with Li's silent monk in attendance.
The whole farrago is a kind of Westernised Shaw Brothers epic without much conviction. If you cast two of the greatest of chopsocky stars, you ought to be a bit ashamed to give them so little to do other than indulge in fight scenes we've seen hundreds of times before.
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