Best movie ever!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Apart from some very inventive fight scenes, Mallika Sherawat might be the other thing you take away from this movie. The fight scenes are something you came to expect from a Jackie Chan movie. Mallika Sherawat on the other hand has not been exposed that much on film yet (not even on many Bollywood movies according to IMDb at least). Unfortunately the same can be said of her role in this movie. And her role in this is actually a filler. Maybe something to attract the Bollywood crowd to watch a Chan movie? Whatever the reasons, Jackie Chan delivers on the action and tries himself on an epic story. An epic story that juggles with the fun and the action part. Sometimes crossing lines that wouldn't be crossed in a regular (Hollywood) movie of the same spectacle. A decent effort, and of course a must see for any Chan fan.

Well, that's the most polite and objective way to express my feeling about this movie. I think they called it (the Myth) whether because they found no title fair enough to describe the incompatible elements they chose concerning history, legends, transmigration of souls, BLA BLA BLA, or maybe they named it (The Myth) unconsciously as the closest word to (The Mess) ! It's common at our slang to characterize anything badly mishmash as (salad) ! So taste this "one" with me. There are a lot of good sequences (I liked the glue's factory the most). In fact those very detached sequences were the best thing here at all but as long as they remained that detached, you'll never get the joy or even the taste of a whole movie after. You watch a good chase to save the princess, a good stealing for a flying sword, a tough sword duel, a nice romance (yet in detached scenes also !), ..to the end of what needed better plot which would've created solider, more convincing, more gratifying movie. Even James Bond's movies got plots more connected than this one !I remember that I had vertigo while watching; for instance at the war sequence ! Basically why I would bother myself to be worry over (Jackie) in the time that I know so well that he would be totally fine in the future ?! So whatever happened in this war (especially the horses' kicking !) Jackie will survive eventually ! How they were so determined as well as enthusiastic to make that whole sequence while knowing that the audience would never tense ??! Originally, look at the 2 parallel dramatic lines of the movie; they didn't attune the sense of thrill between them both as the story of one was holding up the other all along ! Moreover : why did they show us India like it's in the middle ages ?! Why didn't they make it all a time travel in the first place ? How a history professor is living in that luxury ? How Jackie -who's too short- could manage to be a general ?, and why I fell asleep while watching what's supposed to be An Action Adventure movie ??The answer of all of that : They couldn't mix it nicely.Yet it wasn't that awful. Because it had (Jackie Chan) anyway, a real great music score, and (Mallika Sherawat); although it was for some moments but watching her in that white outfit, or with the elephant.. WAW that specifically was wickedly enjoyable and symbolically creative to say the least !Generally...It's the case of having some right vegetables in one tasteless salad !

This film is a love story that connects two people that are two thousand years apart.The modern plot and the ancient plot merges together seamlessly in this film. Every transition is done well, making the complex plot quite easy to follow. The plot is innovative and original. The film is entertaining and fun, particularly the comedic action scenes. The prime example is the rat glue factory scene and the mausoleum fight scene. The anti-gravity scenes are convincingly made, and results in quite a lot of fun (the mid air swim got me laughing)! The only criticism I have is the wooden acting of Tony Leung. He can really do better than that.

The Myth is definitely some of the best stuff to come from JC Films in a while (well at least 2 years.) As Jackie takes a step into uncharted genre just like New Police Story, this is his 2nd step (of a so-far 3step) in created new borders for his films. And it's quite good at that.As usual, there is cheese. Not all that bad however, but It is still in there to attract fans of his old movies. But the action is rather good for JC in his day and age, just as in New Police Story. Jackie gives a brilliant performance as a Qin Dynasty General, he seems to slip into that character perfectly. The soundtrack is good, story average and fantastic special effect (minus 1 waterfall scene). If you like good action, Dynasty style films, films of fantasy or the 'common guy with an extraordinary story' style films, this will be for you.Previously a few reviewers have noticed bad remarks, obviously not the best reviewers since this movie WAS nominated for 4 separate awards in 2006. The films only falls short of a 10 IMO because of some common HK integrated flaws in the movie, such as a bunch of things happening for no reason and some things not clearly explained, but other than that, its a treat to watch more than once.