Jet Li's Fearless (2006)In Jet Li's Fearless , which is supposedly Jet Li's goodbye to the patented Jet Li martial arts spectacular, he plays Huo Yuanjin, the real-life…2006-09-22PG-13Action/AdventureDramaJet LiNakamura ShidonRogue Pictures
In Jet Li's Fearless, which is supposedly Jet Li's goodbye to the patented Jet Li martial arts spectacular, he plays Huo Yuanjin, the real-life Chinese cultural hero of the late Qing dynasty era who started up a still-thriving martial-arts school in Shanghai. And yes, the movie feels more like a stilted, reverential biopic than a chop-socky ass-kicking extravanganza. Every so often there is a hand-to-hand fight scene to cut the boredom the best is set atop a precipitously high wooden tower in a village square but even these don't set themselves apart from anything we've seen before.
Originally posted Sep 22, 2006Published in issue #900 Oct 06, 2006Order article reprints