Just so...so bad

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The first 30 minutes of this two hour film builds up the character of Huo An (Jackie Chan) the leader of the protection squad of the Silk Road in ancient times. About 30 minutes later we get introduced to our second major character, General Lucius (John Cusack) and for the next 30 minutes they unite to fortify a city and practice their fighting skills, because all the fighting in the first thirty minutes was just Asians. Then after an hour we have the Battle for Mordor against Tiberius (Adrien Brody) an ominous figure.The film is a "could of" happened type pseudo-history. I found the plot to be bogged down and the fight sequences ridiculously long and plentiful. Now I will admit they spent money on sets and costumes but kept the dialogue exceeding dry. The Romans native tongue was Latin, and the Chinese spoke Chinese and everyone spoke English, with Huo An speaking broken English...why?The film is a fight film for tweens and teens, particularly those who like martial arts and war films.Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

Inspired by the story of a roman legion which vanished attacking the Parthian empire in 50 BC, this is a tale of civilizations clashing on the silk road. Huo An (Jackie Chan) leads the Silk Road Protection Squad which tries to keep the peace among the warring factions. They are framed for gold smuggling and sentenced to prison work detail at the Wild Geese Gate. Lucius (John Cusack) leads his Legion to the gate with a blind boy named Publius. They are on the run from Publius' murderous brother Tiberius (Adrien Brody).There continues to be an effort to sell Chinese movies by adding Hollywood elements. This has led to bending and twisting stories to accommodate the additions. The stories feel artificial and manufactured. It's a mess of clunky muddle. There are some nice battle scenes in this one. They are wild fun action but this movie is immediately forgettable.

So if you watched this movie it is obviously bad in a lot of ways, that's why I'm not going to get into why and what in particular was so bad about it. I don't feel like it's even worth it, so I am going to just concentrate on the good. First of all, the costumes,flags and other set pieces kind of impressed me with the creativity behind them and somewhat good concise detail to them. I was half expecting it to all look like flimsy crap up close the way the movie was going. Secondly, the acting between Cusack and Jackie Chan was actually pretty believable with crappie screen writing they seemed to be given. Their chemistry was good as well. Thirdly, uhhhh I got nothing else, for now at least. If you still want to watch this movie I recommend fast forwarding through most of it.On another matter Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is one of the best Star Wars films and it needs help in the ratings so go help it out, please!!

For me, this film is one of the little jewels sometimes can be missed. It s almost a gargantuan production, it seems to be nothing's been saved to give that film the grandiosity and the depth the director want to transmit to us.A mash up of actors, good actors, featuring different characters we usually are used to know them.I don t wanna extend myself and I apologize for the grammatical mistakes, but to me, this films has tremendous action scenes, very moving dialogues and if we manage to relax our eye upon some historical errors that can be found, it's really enjoyable.Thank you for your attention, happy new year.