Jet Li hits back against formulaic action flicks
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The Hong Kong action star says too many martial-arts movies ignore heart and emotion in favor of vengeance and gore. He said his latest film to hit US theaters, the Mandarin-language âHero,â is an antidote
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GoldenEye: Rogue Action fails to deliver on the promise of its name and struggles to generate the original's massive sense of fun.
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Action thriller 'Seraphim Falls' is heavy on rugged scenes, light on plot.
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &#39;&#39;House of Flying Daggers&quot; is, hands down, the most visually ravishing movie of the year. It has sequences of balletic martial arts action that can
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An action flick in which the gaudy pyrotechnics are nowhere near as jaw-dropping as the screenplay that name-checks not one, not two, but three national tragedies.
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Today, it seems, anyone seeking a pleasant summer afternoon of dramatic Asian-style fisticuffs must settle for the kind of urban-action/martial-arts hybrid that is âWar.â
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Unlike movies involving razor-toothed monsters in outer space or adorable hobbits searching for magical rings, comedies -- romantic or otherwise -- usually don&#39;t make great sequels.
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Director Zhang Yimou presents a grand saga of ancient China with &quot;Hero&quot; -- a briskly paced, cleverly plotted martial arts epic that unfolds through a circuitous series of flashbacks.
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Beneath the fighting killer he often plays with amazing moves and flying leaps, Jet Li is a romantic and a seeker. As the nameless martial artist in the Chinese historical epic ``Hero,&#39;&#39; opening
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Top Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou  is tackling martial arts subjects these days with such  enthusiasm that one critic swears that knives, swords and  spears fly through his latest film with the force of "fatal  Frisbees."
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TORONTO -- Zhang Yimou&#39;s masterful film Hero brought Jet Li and Donnie Yen together for the first time in a decade. For martial arts fans, that is history in the making.
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Chinese martial arts thriller "Hero" logged a second weekend at the top of the North American box office during the U.S. Labor Day holiday, while four new entries failed to make much of an impression.
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You're unlikely to find a martial arts movie as beautiful as Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, but you'll need to look elsewhere for passion. By Jason Silverman.
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Andy Lau gives "The Departed" &#151; an Americanized version of one of his movies &#151; an eight out of 10. The new Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson was inspired by the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller "Infernal Affairs," which features Lau and Tony Leung.
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Geleya may well appeal to the young and the mass audience. In a nutshell the film is high on technical aspects, but low on content -- a clichÃ©d fare with some entertaining moments.
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Zhang Yimou, director of 'Hero,' returns with another martial-arts movie laced with soul and poetry.
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Chinese martial arts thriller  "Hero" logged a second weekend at the top of the North American  box office during the U.S. Labor Day holiday, while four new  entries failed to make much of an impression.