Forbidden Kingdom

So it’s spring and those big blockbuster movies seem to be spewing out of Hollywood. Having just watched a mediocre '88' I was intrigued and perhaps a little reticent about seeing another blockbuster that promised so much. Could it deliver on that promise?

Well at the very least, when you push together Jet Li and Jacky Chan you expect a lot of fantastic action sequences – however you’re not really expecting too much drama – perhaps a smattering of comedy though?

Well having read the blurb on the movie prior to entering the movie theater I didn’t really know what to expect. Forbidden Kingdom takes the standard Western view of Chinese society and their inherent martial art laden myths and brings in two huge superstars to give it some grounding. I always have a problem with western produced movies like this as they don’t seem to capture the essence of the society they are trying to portray in the same way as some of the classic ‘dubbed’ movies do Aside from the corny English translations of these movies, the action and the story always seem to be more founded in reality

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