Martial arts legend Jackie Chan stars as Jack, a world-renowned archaeologist who has begun having mysterious dreams of a past life as a warrior in ancient China. When a fellow scientist enlists his help locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact. Assisted by the spirit of a noble princess… Archeologist Jack keeps having reoccurring dreams of a past life, where he is the great General Meng Yi, whom is sworn to protect a Korean Princess named OK-soo. Jack decides to go investigate everything with his friend William. Man has his own dream!War and battle will be man's terrible heart burden or beautiful challenge inevitably when he meets his dreaming girl.What a soft and gentle touch. <br/><br/>Please untie the mysterious waiting you did in my spirit and soul once upon 3000 B.C,He says, You know true love is just a myth between man and woman.When you left,i come,but when i fly away,you come into my heart.I believe i can embrace you forever with my hand and dream whatever our time is gone or their space is broken.<br/><br/>This is our movie by Jackie Chan!<br/><br/>It is a myth! It is a Jackie's myth! It is a Jackie's movie! It is a Chinese movie's myth! It is from Jackie's creating world! It is our Jackie's heroic dream! It is a great progress in Jackie's old times! It is an expected join of Mainland's movie and HK's! <br/><br/>It is the best Chinese movie i have seen over the past two years! <br/><br/>It is just it! Jackie Chan's "The Myth" is a partial return to form. As you probably already know, the movie is for the most part split into two concurrent storiesa costume drama in ancient China and an action/comedy in the modern day, with JC playing the main role in both. I enjoyed the lighter modern day story, the action scenes in which reminded me a lot of those in "The Accidental Spy." The attempt at heavier drama in the ancient China segments, however, left me cold. I have nothing against costume action drama as a rulebut I like it not to be so dang leaden and dull. And "Crouching Tiger" this isn't. Apart from the opening scene with the runaway wagon and some brief snippets of swordplay, the costume drama fell flat. In fact, most of the time that Jackie is in that general's helmet, the movie is plain dead. But the action set pieces in the modern day segments are about as close to vintage Jackie as I think we can expect from the 50+ star (and I'd venture to say that the "glue" bit is just as good as any of his previous action/comedy pieces). I know this is heresy to say, but if "The Myth" gets an American release I hope whoever distributes it cuts out at least half of the costume drama's screen time. That part of the film should be made to strictly serve the modern story.
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