Sunday, May 4, 2008

Forbidden Kingdom





Personal Comment:
Nih film membosankan, hampir gak ada hal yang baru, bahkan jurus-jurus silatnya juga agak basi. Jalan cerita klasik dan juga ending yang ampun deh flat abis. Raja musuh masa bisa kalah gitu doang. Alasan gw nonton cuman pengen liat gimana kalo Jet Li ketemu Jacky Chan, gak taunya gak begitu oke. Lebih baik nonton film mereka sendiri-sendiri, karakteristik masing-masing orangnya lebih kelihatan.

Entah kenapa, setelah semua artis China ke Hollywood, kualitas cerita film mereka jadi menurun drastis, sebut saja Chow Yun Fat dengan the Replacement Killernya, atau Jet Li dengan The One, dan sekarang Forbidden Kingdom menambah daftar hitam film2 Hollywood tidak berkualitas lainnya.

Director: Rob Minkoff

Writer (WGA): John Fusco (written by)
Release Date: 18 April 2008 (Indonesia)

In Forbidden Kingdom, American teenager Jason (Michael Angarano), who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kungfu classics, finds an antique Chinese staff in a pawn shop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King (Jet Li). With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself transported back to ancient China.

There, he meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan (Jackie Chan); an enigmatic and skillful Silent Monk (Jet Li); and a vengeance-bent kungfu beauty, Golden Sparrow (Crystal Liu Yi Fei), who lead him on his quest to return the staff to its rightful owner, the Monkey King - imprisoned in stone by the evil Jade Warlord (Collin Chou) for five hundred years. Along the way, while attempting to outmaneuver scores of Jade Warriors, Cult Killers and the deadly White Hair Demoness, Ni Chang (Li Bing Bing), Jason learns about honor, loyalty and friendship, and the true meaning of kungfu, and thus frees himself.

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