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An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, th...( read more 
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MCT:November 6, 2008The Forbidden Kingdom marks the first collaborative experience for Jackie Chan and Jet Li, two action-film marvels fans have been clamoring to see bounce off walls and pummel bad guys for decades now. Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) is your average youth from Boston who's obsessed with kung fu movies. His main supplier is a shop in Chinatown. While looking around one day, he discovers a staff that's been in the shop three generations, waiting to be returned to its rightful owner. During an attempted robbery, Jason attempts to defend the store and its owner, but becomes transported to ancient China. There, he encounters the scholar-immortal Lu Yan (Jackie Chan). Lu Yan recognizes Jason's staff and tells him they must journey to return the staff to its rightful owner, the Monkey King. Only when the Monkey King is awakened can the cruel reign of the Jade Warlord end. Along the way Jason will receive help from a monk (Jet Li) and a girl called Golden Sparrow (Yifei Liu). Their big battle, in essence a standoff between grace (Chan) and gravitas (Li) is a sight to behold. But I thought it would never end. The movie looks flat, the CGI backdrops. Forbidden Kingdom would have been much more than a mere meeting of two kung fu kings. As it stands, we have to suffer through 90 minutes of mediocrity to get a half hour of fabulous flying fists. Some of it was worth the wait, but I found myself at times checking to see how much time until the movie was going to be over with. Both Li and Chan appear in top form, and their one-on-one contests are the picture's lone saving grace. That is, until a scene comes along that has Li urinating on Chan's face. Then you kind of forget the film has any merit whatsoever. Kingdom is a stiff, disturbingly ill-conceived fantasy film.
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MCT:October 15, 2008
pussy kid turns into a man story
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MCT:October 7, 2008this was a fun movie, not great but fun with sum kool action
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MCT:October 2, 2008NOT INTERESTED
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MCT:September 20, 2008
It was a good movie, but it had a certain Hollywood "feel" to it that made it seem clichéd like the 80's karate movies of lore.
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MCT:December 4, 2008Mythical adventure about a teenager who's love for Kung Fu lands him in ancient china as the bearer of a staff he must return to the rightful owner.
All things considered it wasn't a bad watch,your basic action/adventure scenario.The story itself was ok and there was some humour which broke up the "been there,done that" issue.A couple of well choreographed sequences which made it well worth the time spent watching it.Chan & Li worked good together but I find Li as of late stiff for some reason (maybe it's the roles he's doing right now.) Chan on the other hand fit perfectly in his role as drunk/& teacher of his recently aquired student.
If your fan of this type then go for it,if not,stay away.
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acandavposted 82 days ago -
U HAVE NEVER SEEN LIKE THIS ???
JUST PRESS THIS LINK AND ENJOY IT
http://www.subhehogayimamu.com/?um=407posted 138 days ago -
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Jakie Chan is really a hard-working actor.As a Chinese,I'm proud of him!Best wishes to him!
posted 217 days ago -
It is a good thing that the news of Jackie and Jet working together over-shadow the movie because I went into the movie completely clueless and came out amazed.
But the biggest disappointment from that news is that it over-shadows Collin Chou who plays the Jade Warlord!!! WTF!!
Collin is sooo freaking cool and his Hollywood profile isnt bad either. Seriously, he was the Seraph in the Matrix, Hayate in DOA, and Jet Li's father in Fearless. Not to mention he fought Donnie Yen in Flash Point just last year.
Those of u that havent seen Forbidden Kingdom should anticipate seeing him too cuz this mofo is almost just as good as Jet and Jackie, almost.posted 222 days ago -
AWESOME!!!! I LOVED IT SOOO MUCH...
ANYTHING WITH KUNG-FU AND JACKIE CHAN... DEFINETLY A BOX OFFICE HIT FOR ME!!!!
I've always been a loyal fan of jackie chan!!!posted 226 days ago -
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at last! dis wat i bin waitin 4! 2 see does 2 fellas do somtin. honestly, i had dreamt of this. not the movie really but them both doing sometin. it is good job.
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Still very curious about the fight scenes...the only thing 2 look forward too...let's just hope there's not too much wire fu!
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