Huo Yuan Jia
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:33 -0700
The best Martial Arts movie i have seen for a long time, perhaps the best i have ever seen !
trailers here :
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=fearless
after Fist of Fury with Bruce Lee, and Fist Of Legend with Jet Li is a pleasure to see Jet Li again in this movie, that is about HUO YUAN JIA's life (at the contrary of the 2 firts movies that were about vengeance...story of the 2 first movies start when story of this movie finish)
The film is visually impressive, moreover it is very clever... it could have been one more "nationalist" movie, but the movie is upon this, we will follow HUO YUAN JIA, a great warrior that has understood nothing about what is important, he will loose everything and then become a master. The historical background is really interesting (we are around 1900-1910), and some strangers like americans (in the true story the catcher was russian) japanese (master Tanaka) are honourable too (of course we cannot say that of all the foreigners, most were colonialists and ready to kill Huo). Of course the end of the movie is tragic...
The meeting between master Tanaka and master Huo Yuan Jia is the kind of meeting i could imagine when i think about a story between Usagi and a Chinese. Around a cup of tea...
trailers here :
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=fearless
after Fist of Fury with Bruce Lee, and Fist Of Legend with Jet Li is a pleasure to see Jet Li again in this movie, that is about HUO YUAN JIA's life (at the contrary of the 2 firts movies that were about vengeance...story of the 2 first movies start when story of this movie finish)
The film is visually impressive, moreover it is very clever... it could have been one more "nationalist" movie, but the movie is upon this, we will follow HUO YUAN JIA, a great warrior that has understood nothing about what is important, he will loose everything and then become a master. The historical background is really interesting (we are around 1900-1910), and some strangers like americans (in the true story the catcher was russian) japanese (master Tanaka) are honourable too (of course we cannot say that of all the foreigners, most were colonialists and ready to kill Huo). Of course the end of the movie is tragic...
The meeting between master Tanaka and master Huo Yuan Jia is the kind of meeting i could imagine when i think about a story between Usagi and a Chinese. Around a cup of tea...