Monday, April 21, 2008

Movie Review - The Forbidden Kingdom

**Spoilers Warning**
Turn back now to avoid any spoilers in Story section (if wanna read it just hight light the text). Proceed to read Overview and Rating section below.

Story (hight light to read): Story about the monkey god having a duel with the Jade Emperor's General and being turned into a stone after he's been tricked to fight without his magical stick weapon which in last minute he cast away to safety.

Seems that the stick is present inside a pawnshop in America safely guarded in generations by a family. A typical American guy who likes kungfu movies went to pawn shop in Chinatown and saw the stick. Boy got bullied by bullies who then found out he befriended the shop owner of the pawnshop then being forced to lie and broke into the shop. Somehow bully shot shop owner, American guy grab golden stick and fled for life. Being chased to roof top and suddenly magic stick transformed him into the 'fairy tale' land of monkey god.

Jackie Chan as a drunk beggar

Befriended a kungfu beggar (Jackie Chan) and Sparrow girl (didn't catch her name) then met up with silent monk (Jet L) and sets out quest to save monkey god by bringing the stick to the palace of Jade Emperor's General. Learned how to fight in kungfu style along the way too.

Jet Li as silent monk

Challenged Jade Emperor General and his legion of army, eventually freed monkey god then he defeated the general and thus the guy gets to go back to present where he kicks the bullies' butt and live happily ever after. The End. Nice story? no, to me it sounded and looked cheesy...

Overview: Cheesy story, didn't explain why chinese guys can speak in English, nice kungfu fighting sequences, featured Asia's kungfu superstars.

Rating: 6.5/10

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