THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM – The Two J’s Together At Last
February 11, 2008 by Spotlight-on WM
Filed under MOVIES
Yeehaw – martial arts and movie legends Jet Li and Jackie Chan, together at last in the same film: THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM!Coming this April, it’s the story of a young guy who’s obsessed with Kung Fu movies from the South Bronx who, after finding a mysterious stick fighting weapon in a pawn shop, suddenly finds himself in an ancient Chinese kingdom, discovered by two martial arts fighters who need to turn him into one of the band if they’re to succeed in freeing the legendary Monkey King, sage and warrior (and original owner of the famed fighting stick) from the Jade Warlord.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ever so glad Jet and Jackie have forgotten about their “retirements” from martial arts films, especially if it meant they did one together!! I’ve always wanted to see them play off each other and now I’ll finally have the chance.
I could do without Jackie Chan’s dreadlocks, though, and too bad they shaved Jet Li’s beautiful hair off for this one, but from the previews, everything else looks great! It’s amazing to watch the two fight, each with their own styles, fast, furious, deadly and graceful, in their own ways. It looks like Jet Li will be playing “straight man” to Jackie’s usual humor, but with only about a minute and a half of preview so far, hard to tell.
The previews of THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM made me think of THE MUMMY with Brendan Fraser, Arnold Vosloo & Oded Fehr – adventure, humor, fighting, dashing heroes, and a hypnotic evil villain. We’ll see how it stacks up. Again, here’s another movie coming out this year that looks like a winner to me.
