09-10-2025, 11:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2025, 11:37 PM by Drunk Monk.)
A Legend (2025)
This is the sequel to The Myth. Jackie plays the same character - a professor of archeology - but I still maintain that this would’ve been better if it was the same character as the two Armor of God films (Jackie’s Indiana Jones homages - the second installment is top tier Jackie). Ultimately Jackie doesnt display much range between his two archeologist characters. The distinction is that Professor Fang time travels while Asian Hawk fights nazis like Indy.
The Myth had the flypaper factory fight which remains one of my all time fav Jackie fights. For that reason, I luv that film. A Legend doesn’t come close. There’s a big medieval battle, mostly on horseback that’s impressive for its scope but it’s likely CGI mostly. There’s a lot of horse falls and deaths, also CGI.
There’s a lot of CGI. Like with Knight of Shadows ( https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...p?tid=5185 ) Jackie is digitally de-aged for the past Han warrior scenes. It’s stiff and weird and it’s clearly not Jackie underneath because the body type is different. He does pull of a good super long sword fight, but he doesn’t move with that Jackie precision and timing (arguably neither does Jackie anymore). It’s a little odd because Jackie’s character is the only one de-aged, while the rest of the cast has duel characters that are the same age, but it’s not even worth quibbling that.
Notable is Uighur actress Bextiyar Gülnezer, who plays the main love interest, the princess in the past and the archeological student in the present - two very different characters. She also delivers an amusing sword dance and sword fight.
The time travel motif of the two films Im this series allows for two major story arcs to play out with intertwining minor arcs. It could allow for some tightly woven storytelling, but being Stanley Tong movies, they’re more stream of conscious. There’s a funny twist where one name covers a loyal steed in the past and a turncoat human in the present and they both get injured in the leg. The present leg injury is funny enough for me to giggle; the past horse is tragic.
The film tries to be a romance, a comedy, a fantasy, and an actioner, and achieves moments in each genre but they don’t connect that well. Some of the fights are ok - better than Karate Kid Legends, but nowhere near as good as The Shadow’s Edge.
Not D00M recommended.
Rented from Amazon Prime
This is the sequel to The Myth. Jackie plays the same character - a professor of archeology - but I still maintain that this would’ve been better if it was the same character as the two Armor of God films (Jackie’s Indiana Jones homages - the second installment is top tier Jackie). Ultimately Jackie doesnt display much range between his two archeologist characters. The distinction is that Professor Fang time travels while Asian Hawk fights nazis like Indy.
The Myth had the flypaper factory fight which remains one of my all time fav Jackie fights. For that reason, I luv that film. A Legend doesn’t come close. There’s a big medieval battle, mostly on horseback that’s impressive for its scope but it’s likely CGI mostly. There’s a lot of horse falls and deaths, also CGI.
There’s a lot of CGI. Like with Knight of Shadows ( https://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFo...p?tid=5185 ) Jackie is digitally de-aged for the past Han warrior scenes. It’s stiff and weird and it’s clearly not Jackie underneath because the body type is different. He does pull of a good super long sword fight, but he doesn’t move with that Jackie precision and timing (arguably neither does Jackie anymore). It’s a little odd because Jackie’s character is the only one de-aged, while the rest of the cast has duel characters that are the same age, but it’s not even worth quibbling that.
Notable is Uighur actress Bextiyar Gülnezer, who plays the main love interest, the princess in the past and the archeological student in the present - two very different characters. She also delivers an amusing sword dance and sword fight.
The time travel motif of the two films Im this series allows for two major story arcs to play out with intertwining minor arcs. It could allow for some tightly woven storytelling, but being Stanley Tong movies, they’re more stream of conscious. There’s a funny twist where one name covers a loyal steed in the past and a turncoat human in the present and they both get injured in the leg. The present leg injury is funny enough for me to giggle; the past horse is tragic.
The film tries to be a romance, a comedy, a fantasy, and an actioner, and achieves moments in each genre but they don’t connect that well. Some of the fights are ok - better than Karate Kid Legends, but nowhere near as good as The Shadow’s Edge.
Not D00M recommended.
Rented from Amazon Prime
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