Review of The Myth

The Myth (2005)
7/10
Good stunts but bad screenplay writing
25 September 2005
Warning: Spoilers
It is reported that it was the first time Jackie Chan appeared in screen with ancient dresses (followed by Qin dynasty's customs), he is acting as a Qin's General Men-yi, as well as an contemporary archaeologist as sort of rebirth of that General, called Jack.

I can hardly give the objective and impersonal comments since I am sort of fascinating with reincarnation topics, rebirth or Samsara things, and this film's plot was obviously inspired from them.

This film ended up with all sorts of commercial shells reminded you following names, Indiana Jones, Tomb Rider , Jackie's typical comedic Kung Fu scenes, common love story and exoticism by appearance of that Indian Ms. busty yoga (Mallika Sherawat).

Screenplay is not that good so the flaws and non-explained details are found everywhere, like how an ancient Chinese imperial concubine's painting is found in an Indian mummy tomb is left mystery. And in the scenario of outer space like catacomb, gravity can selectively exist when Jackie needs it to make fight available and disappeared when people needs to fly away.

However, I reckon the scenario of General Meng-Yi's final fight is epic and heroic. Such heroical plot is not often seen in Jackie Chan's countless comedic martial art films, good change. And the Korean actress'(Hee-seon Kim) fairy-like appearance was impressive as well as her face looking.

It is pity that in the end of film, Jack (Jackie)wrote an archaeological book called "The Myth", but in the preface of the book, it was only marked as dedicated to his male friend and colleague, but forgot that loyal and faithful Korean fairy princess, without regarding that she had been waiting for his return over 2000 years.

For those western audiences, they perhaps need to comprehend some basic concepts in this movie are real historical facts, like Immortal drugs and emperor's catacomb, even the story is still fictional.

Feature: In cinema, it was not often happened that the audiences didn't leave the cinema even the caption was already on, because Jacky always like to show a big No-Good screen shoot features and disclose the stunning a bit. There was an European girl left during the early caption.
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