Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

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While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This has what I like in a martial arts movie. MMA has smashed the fantasy realm of these movies, where the gritty stuff where little asian men can beat gun wielding gangsters are no longer viable. This is why this movie works, because it takes the main character out of our modern world and throws them into the world envisioned in The Journey to The West, Monkey-King and all.

>> PROS It's a Martial-Arts Fantasy with great visual effects, splendid Chinese costumes and stylish Kung Fu fights. The landscapes in the film show Mother Nature in all its green glory. It is a rare film in which you will see the coming together of the great martial artists, Jet Li and Jackie Chan.>> CONS The movie offers NO Thrill or Suspense or Depth of plot and characters.The supposedly lead character of Michael Angarano is very weak and unimpressive. He is a wimpy character who does not know Kungfu even though he is supposed to be fan of martial arts.The story-line is predictable.Acting is poor & dialogues are ordinary.The coming together of Jet Li and Jackie Chan is a complete waste!It is just a "time pass", ordinary and boring picture. The watch-it-forget-it type! Not worth recommending it others.Forbidden Kingdom will be liked only by kids and teenagers.

The Forbidden Kingdom is a very good movie which is always enjoyable to watch. It has great adventure, fantasy and exciting action packed martial arts. But sometimes it can get cheesy and that's maybe the only thing that let's it down but other than that its still very entertaining. Jackie Chan and Jet Li are great in the film and act as some of the better actors of the bunch. Some parts are unrealistic, including the scene where Jason's bully just shoots the old store keeper. I mean he could have gone to jail for robbing the pawn shop but now he's committed a murder which might mean a life sentence. But I guess that part of the story was pretty helpful and is why the makers put it in. But the story never gets a good chance to show us what happened to the bully after Jason bashed him with his new martial arts. I'm guessing he must have gone to jail because the old man surely recovered and he could just press charges so... Yeah I think Jason's bully is going to jail. And besides where did he get the gun from anyway? And so ends my review on a film I really recommend and try to watch it on a nice Saturday night, I swear your dreams after that film will become your best.

This movie was basically a twist on an popular Chinese children's story. The children's story described the Monkey King as mad and in search for revenge for his fellow tribe mates. If you go and read or watch the story you would see a great resemblance. That movie uses a lot of events that had in fact happened in the children's tale. This movie is very good and incorporates many aspects of both the children's story and an action movie.I loved the fact that the movie was about a typical teen, turned into a hero. Although many of that karate movies that I have watched contain this, I think this is one that was well done. You wouldn't expect what happens next. It was as predictable as many karate movies are. Overall, it was an amazing movie and I would love to watch it again sometime.