What a waste!


Saw a preview of this on the weekend here in Indonesia. They showed the trailer a couple of times whilst watching other box office hits. We thought this might be a hit plus we were fans of Jet Li, but as soon as the movie starts - 5 minutes into it - things are just horrendous (I might even say that this is the worst movie I've seen so far in 2013). We also see most of the good parts shown on the trailer at the very beginning of the movie. Very deceiving trailer.

I have to say this is Jet Li's a worst film. I don't even know what the hell was he even thinking signing up for a silly project like this. His role in this movie is not that big (we only see him a couple of times throughout the movie). There were a couple of top notch names here in the movie, but c'mon. This is definitely a DISASTER. From the what-the-hell storyline, overdone and too theatrical/typical action scenes, horrible acting and ridiculous humour/jokes (so tacky and cheesy that the humour gets annoying and made me want to leave the cinema). In fact there was a group of family who walked out of the movie theatre halfway throughout the movie. I can understand their pain. There was only one scene which made me laugh throughout the movie.

AVOID AT ALL COST!

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was it the part they were talking about piracy films on net. ?? that was the only decent laugh i had.

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This was meant to be an action comedy/parody and it was a great one at that. It was making fun of and made references to a bunch of hollywood classics / blockbusters etc. The one thing I didn't like were the overdone scenes of people getting hurt, it just wasn't funny but I think that was more for the Chinese audience perhaps since I've seen these attempts at humor in other Asian movies.

Everything else, especially the CGI worked great. You could tell the difference between the ones that were meant to be goofy and the ones that fit in.

Even the storyline isn't as bad as the two of you suggest. It had its fair share of red herrings and twists, all mixed in with humor.

Did I watch the same movie?

excitate vos e somno

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I'm glad someone else enjoyed it. I was starting to feel rather sheepish because I enjoyed it. I thought at worst the pace plodded along a few time but otherwise I enjoyed the wacky humor and offbeat but well choreographed fight scenes. Decent escapist flick.

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agreed! bad of fury!! better watch 'crouching tiger hidden dragon', although its some kind of boring, everyone keep saying that this is the best movie ever!

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JUST after the intro i was like wtf?? im not signing for this ridiculous thing... martial art fan or not.. it looked so silly , at least the movie showed its color 5 mins in.... i knew it was not for me

Alice is the worst character of all time, she need to die in the last movie. Chris/Jill are RE !!!

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