Guys just remember this: yes - the trailer does say that this will be Jet’s last film - but how many times has Jackie Chan announced “no more gong fu films” these last two decades and yet “The Myth” was full of fight sequences.
or you could try here, such a shame this will be his last “life with martial arts” type movie. but i look forward to his new focus of “life with buddhisim” within movies.
This film is a classic kung fu flick akin to OUATIC and Fong Sai Yuk, only with post-Hero/CTHD production values. There’s some great fights, but the best stuff happens early making the final fight anticlimactic - same problem with Jackie Chans’ Myth, actually. Jet turns in a fine performance, both acting and action. The version I saw had only Chinese subtitles, but I think I figured out most of the plot rather easily. It’s a simple plot, and I’m very familiar with the following “fist” movies (Fist of Fury, Fist of Legend) as well as the history, so I knew exactly how it was going to end.
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Rogue Pictures, same people that brought us Unleashed and Brokeback Mountain, are handling Fearless. Our Tiger Claw Foundation worked with them for Unleashed. They’ve contacted me about it - their rep mentioned a possible August date for US release.
I have also heard of an August release date. But with important things like this it could take awhile to bring it over. I just don;t get why we can’t get it faster, I mean are they trying to make it an 80min. release like Iron Monkey, Iron Monkey might not have been cut down too much, but I heard this movie was already chopped up before it’s first release, so I hope that we get the right version like we did with HERO and House Of Flying Daggers.
I know the story is based on the character that Beardy played in LEgend of a Fighter. I hope it is better than that, I am not a big fan of Jet Li’s the Legend, but I hope this movie can at least be as good as the classic woo-ping brought us in 1982.