Jet Li Movies The New Legend Of Shaolin ((full)) Today

A 10/10 classic that proves you can have high stakes and total absurdity in the same frame.

Most Jet Li movies focus on honor or nationalism ( Once Upon a Time in China ). The New Legend of Shaolin focuses on survival . Jet Li spends most of the run time exhausted, wounded, and desperate. The scene where his son is nailed into a box and thrown into a river is shockingly brutal for a 1994 action film. Li’s performance—screaming without sound, tears mixing with rain—shows a range he rarely displays in Western films. Jet Li Movies The New Legend Of Shaolin