The Forbidden Kingdom Review

The Forbidden Kingdom stars action legends Jackie Chan (who plays Lu Yan) and Jet Li (playing the Monkey King and The Silent Monk) along with Michael Angarano, Yifei Liu (played Sparrow) and Collin Chou playing the Jade Warlord.

Well the main plot of The Forbidden Kingdom starts off with the Monkey King (Jet Li) causing mischief against the Jade Warlord (beating up some jade warriors atop a group of mountains), and the Jade Warlord challenges the Monkey King to a duel. During the duel the Jade Warlord (Collin Chou) turns the Monkey King into stone just after the Monkey King casts his staff away.

Switch to sort of present day and we see Jason (played by Michael Angarano). He get out of bed and goes to a store in China town to buy some kung fu movies (this is were we see Jackie Chan in make up to make him look old playing the shop owner). Afterwards he gets chased after by as group of bullies and Jason is ends up inside The Forbidden Kingdom. Here he first meets Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and they start a journey to help return the staff to his rightful owner. On the way they meet Sparrow (Yifei Liu) and the Silent Monk (played by Jet Li) who helps him on his journey.

Now as being a big Jackie Chan Fan some could thing that this is a no brainer of which way I might swing, but I’m not going to lie I loved this movie. I was grinning from ear to ear, I was like a kid in a candy shop seeing Jackie Chan and Jet Li on screen together.

Over and over, film after film Woo-ping Yuen always delivers when It comes to the choreography he is truly the greatest of his profession. Jackie Chan and Jet Li both are excellent during there selection of fight scenes with the best of course in my mind being when the two fought each other inside the temple.

Along with the great fight scenes the Forbidden Kingdom is really funny I was actually surprised on how funny it was, most of the scenes came from when Jet Li and Jackie was training the kid and a “raining” scene which is hilarious.

As a huge fan when it comes to pretty much anything about martial arts films I’ll like from anything thing these two actors do all the way to any Shaw Brothers Films. For me The Forbidden Kingdom fit perfectly together I loved every minute of it. I highly recommend this movie.