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My Kingdom - Drunk Monk - 03-12-2012 This begins with a duel between two of the greats: Yuan Biao (Jackie's little bro) and Yu Rongguang (villain in New Karate Kid et.al.) choreographed by Sammo. Sammo's work here is very comic book - lots of over-the-top wire work to comic book hero effect ala Corey Yuan. The film ends with a sword fight - Barbie Hsu (a southpaw) in her negligee in a wine cellar. There's a decent plot (Greg's cry of 'a story where the fights were an organic part of the whole' actually applies here) and a lot of references to Chinese opera (mostly Monkey King and Farewell My Concubine). There's a lot of sumptuous costumes and sets - you can see where the astronomical (for Chollywood) $120 million budget went. But it fails. Yuan and Yu drop out of the story too soon and the baby-faced teen idols that take over the lead roles are way to emo. Director Gao Xiaosong just won a Broom Award (China's Razzie). It's very disappointing as it had so many elements going for it - story, costume, sets, some amusing fights - but the leads were so wooden - too wooden even for a kung fu movie, if you can believe that. Re: My Kingdom - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 03-12-2012 Are we talking "George Lucas" wooden? Re: My Kingdom - thatguy - 03-12-2012 Or Thunderbirds/Team America wooden? --tg like this... - Drunk Monk - 03-12-2012 [youtube]YmOev9L9c2Q[/youtube] ...only without the heavy metal bass guitar riff.