Spoiler! dont readunless you have seen the flim.

Yep, that's exactly it.

I really liked the ending.
It's a breath of fresh air compared to the stupid happy endings we keep seeing in Jackie's american films.

What else was he supposed to do, anyway?
-Bring the prince back to get the reward? No way, they had become good friends by that time (plus he realized that the prince had a lot of potential).
-Run away from the invading soldiers? or fight them? No way, you can't fight an army by yourself.

And if everything you've ever known is gone, what's the point of living?

It's a bit dark for a JC film, but at least it's realistic.

He let the prince go for the same reason that he was hiding in the battlefield. The prince was the only one left in his family to carry on the family name, and he had already extracted the 10 year truce, and he had become his friend. If he had taken him in for a ransom the war would have carried on, and he would have also betrayed what had become a friendship now.

The death is ad, but it reflects what happened in china, china was united by the qin state of all the warring states. His country was destroyed, he had nothign left. And the shock got to him, so he died with his country. Defending it to his death, going against his fathers wishes sadly.


Typical patriotic propoganda that all nationalistic films are drenched it (whether american or chinese, or any other nations), but nonetheless is quite good.

What the movie does well is show character development. Remember Chan always going on about not dying in vein? He was always selfless no matter what, unless it was the matter of life and death.

The friendship he made with the general was the final step in the progression of his character. No matter how rewarding it may have been, Chan let the general go because he could relate to his situation (them being only sons alive). Once he discovers that Qin was conquered his dreams shatter. He is the only Qin soldier left, except this time he does't stand down. He has been running his whole life because he chooses not to die a wasteful death, but after making friends with the general and accomplishing so much with him, he feels as if he has done his part; which is promoting peace. That's what Chan's characters ultimately stands for. He is the "little" person that got so far by being completely selfless and ran his whole life, yet his contribution was so large.

The movie wouldn't have made any sense if Chan started fighting. He was always the character that searched for other ways of confronting things without having to resort to violence.

Yes, excellent ending to an excellent film. It is nice seeing a new Jackie film and having that warm feeling he seems to generate in you. The last one I saw was Shinjuku Incident, and while that was very good, it was fairly depressing (actually extremely depressing given it was Jackie and I had just watched Wheels on Meals).

Emily? Who's Emily?

he had been the cowardly one, the one that had always wanted to avoid fighting. There was logic in it as he preferred peace, but he always fealt less significant compared to his brothers. By getting the flag home he had upheld his family name and the honor of the Liang.

I figured he was going to die since he kept dreaming of being killed. I was rooting for him to jump in the river and swim to the boat where his friend was - so he could go with him to his land.