It's a martial arts battle of the masters when red hot action superstar Jet Li returns to take revenge!
After failing to save his wife from the evil 'Doctor', Kit Li (Jet Li: Romeo Must Die, The Black Mask) takes a job working as a bodyguard for the world famous actor Frankie Lane. But history repeats itself and Kit is forced to confront his past when The Doctor and his gang take over a luxury hotel in an attempt to steal the Crown Jewels of Russia on exhibition there. Surrounded by the ruthless gangsters and with only his bare hands to protect him and the hostages, Kit must seek his own brand of vengeance.
New Legend of Sholin
Martial arts idol Jet Li (of the "Once Upon a Time in China" series) is a pillar of upright fury as a foe of the oppressive Ching Dynasty who returns home from studies at the Shaolin temple to find his family betrayed and massacred. The only survivor is his infant son, whom he will train to be as stern and disciplined a warrior as he is himself - that is, after an opening fight scene in which our hero performs dizzying stunts with the baby tied safely to his back.
The Li character and his stoical son (Tse Miu) are hired to guard a rich man, who's fallen under the sway of a young woman, Red Bean (Chingmy Yau), who pretends to be selling herself to raise money to bury her recently deceased mother (Deannie Yip). The two women are revealed as swindlers and skilled fighters; mom is quite alive, and if anything even tougher than her daughter.
And to make sure there's no letup in the action, Li and son are assailed again and again by the villain who betrayed their family, by now transformed into a monster who makes his entrance in a deadly metallic car that looks like a tiny, silver Batmobile. Naturally, the virtuous Li and his super-offspring pair with the unscrupulous women to take care of this fiend and the government hordes who help him.
The movie is fast and furious, and offers some of the most wildly choreographed fight sequences you've ever seen. It's so much fun it's probably under investigation in Washington! |