Movie Trailer Reviews

I like watching movie trailers and then reviewing the movie based on the information gleaned from them. I work at the Telluride Film Festival, and I get to see quite a few movies well before their domestic release dates, so I have a little insight into those movies as well. Because the TFF program isn't released until the day of the festival, I like to try and guess what might show up here.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Jet Li's Fearless

Release Date: Sept 22, 2006
Ronny Yu (dir.)
Jet Li
Betty Sun
Dong Yong
Nakamura Shidou
Trailer

This is a fairly nationalistic Chinese movie in which Jet Li kicks all the huge foreigners asses in a battle royale/street fighter/mortal kombat kind of thing. Jet claims to be retired now, having made this movie, which is based on a true story. Frankly, the only reason to retire is to have an excuse to make a comeback, but more power to him. If there's one thing that can be counted on, it's the kicking-assing-ness of the modern Kung-Fu movie. Totally worthy of the big screen, from the looks of things. I'm all for seeing it!

(edit 10/4/06: Saw it tonight and it was great. Good story as well as spectacular fight scenes. Definitely nationalistic, but with an interesting aside to the mixed notions of the Japanese as well)
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