The Myth (2005)
Reviewed by: evirei on 2005-10-03
Summary: By far the worst Jackie Chan movie ever.
The Myth started it's show with Jackie taking the role of a Jeneral being sent by the emperor of the Qin dynasty to receive and protect the princess of korea which will be the new wife to the emperor. Soon, some korean nationals lead by their general (a guy whom the princess was suppose to marry at the first place) came and try to rescue the princess. Then comes this fight between the general and Jackie at this cliff where the princess was sitting inside the horse carriage dangling while jackie and the general each tie a rope to their body to prevent the princess from falling while fighting (which was simply ridiculous and not to mention fake. For god's sake, the princess can't even jump out of the carriage and save herself?). Jackie manage to win the fight and save the princess and fell from the cliff into the river and Jackie soon woke up from his dream.

Jackie in present life was known as Jack is an archaeologist and he is staying on a cool house in a ship. One day his pal, William (Tony) came and visited him. He came to find Jackie's help to solve a scientific problem on how to make object floats on earth. Tony then persuade Jackie to go to Dasar, a place where there's a coffin of a prince which is floating in the middle of the air. While raiding the the tomb, Jackie found the korean princess's drawing in the grave and a sword (which was not explained in the movie). I hate it when they just cut and paste everything without a reason and expecting the audience who have no knowledge about chinese history and expecting them to understand. Jackie and Tony then run for their life. Tony manage to escape while Jackie fall off the cliff and was saved by Malika.

Jackie then wake up at Malika's place and was brought to meet Malika's uncle which was a guru which then enlights Jackie a lot about his past and his present stuff. There were this fight scene which doesn't ring a bell when the guru asked one of his disciples to fight with Jackie. Jackie then start to thinks back and it flashes back to his past era. Then it goes on with some cat and mouse chase.

After coming back to Hong Kong, Tony finally knew who has been secretly funding him on his research, someone whom his ethics was not fond by Jackie, his master who raid tombs. In order to continue this research, Tony helps Jackie to find out "the myth". When they came to this waterfall. Long story cut short, Jackie ramp in and was hurt and being save by the korean princess. Yeap the korean princess, whom actually ate the medicine of eternity life. Tony and Jackie's master soon came and well, what's new in Jackie movies other than fight fight fight... float float float due to the whole place was being placed with meteorite which manage to support the whole kingdom in the air.

The verdict on this movie? By far the worst Jackie Chan movie ever. No doubt there were a lot of visual effects but they were done badly and some were just plain too obvious and fake. The story has a lot of loop holes, Director or scriptwriter didn't take the effort to link everything together assuming audience who walk in to the cinema has great knowledge in chinese history. Till now I still can't figure out how come the Dasar prince grave was floating in the air since the metoerite was found my the Qin emperor and he was so secretive about the stone. But well, I can proudly say that there's one new break through in the movie. At least Jackie Chan did die in the movie for once, even though it was in his past life.

Rating: 4 1/2 out of 10
Reviewer Score: 4







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