ridiculous rating

Just so...so bad

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It has to be said that I saw the cut version, not the over two hours one. I wonder if the longer version makes more sense or gives the characters more meat, but the cut one, clocking at around one hour forty minutes is a boring mess.Jackie Chan plays Huo An, a man that has fallen from grace and has to work with his men in the reconstruction of a fortress. There arrives John Cusack's Lucius, a Roman on the run from Tiberius, a bad bad one. Cue Lucius and Huo An bonding, Tiberius making an appearance and lots of fights happening.The plot is basically non-existent. You have something about Huo An wanting peace but being betrayed, Lucius trying to be a good man and protect a child and Tiberius being bad and selfish. And just that. You then have lots of fights, way too many. When the big one starts you will probably have already turn off your attention. And if not, the long running time of it, with the seen a hundred times twists and developments will.It doesn't help that the fights are not particularly well choreographed or engaging and that the acting is subpar. Cusack out-acts almost everyone around him (even if he looks as if he just walked into the wrong set and decided to stay because he was bored). Chan's character lacks gravitas and giving him a wife or some children to protect don't make him more relatable. And Tiberius, played by Adrien Brody with extra of ham and cheese, belongs to a school play.All in all, the movie just lacks in all departments. If you are ironing some clothes it may be good enough as background entertainment. But don't expect much more.

I don't know why Jackie Chain did this movie. He always do wonderful movies. But this movie has nothing. Please don't see this.It's hard to describe any good thing about a movie except one nude scene of one girl at starting ;).If you see Story: Bad If you see Action: Bad If you see Acting: BadOverall move: Very bad.

So if you watched this movie it is obviously bad in a lot of ways, that's why I'm not going to get into why and what in particular was so bad about it. I don't feel like it's even worth it, so I am going to just concentrate on the good. First of all, the costumes,flags and other set pieces kind of impressed me with the creativity behind them and somewhat good concise detail to them. I was half expecting it to all look like flimsy crap up close the way the movie was going. Secondly, the acting between Cusack and Jackie Chan was actually pretty believable with crappie screen writing they seemed to be given. Their chemistry was good as well. Thirdly, uhhhh I got nothing else, for now at least. If you still want to watch this movie I recommend fast forwarding through most of it.On another matter Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is one of the best Star Wars films and it needs help in the ratings so go help it out, please!!

I love Jackie Chan and for me he is one of the few Martial arts actors who was almost as talented as Bruce Lee (although in a more comedic way) But why Jackie has taken to making these silly over the top movies that they seem to churn out now is beyond me. All of these Chinese epic style period war movies are pretty much all the same and if you have seen one you have seen them all.They are over long, confusing and boring.John Cusack is pretty convincing, but Adrian Brody is his usual useless self. He is never convincing and for me he has pretty much ruined every movie he has been in. He never looks or acts the part and why he is used so much is a mystery to me.I found myself hoping this movie would improve as it went along but it never did.