The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Jackie Chan, Bingbing Li, Yifei Liu, Juana Collignon, Morgan Benoit |
Director |
Rob Minkoff |
Screenplay | John Fusco |
Music | David Buckley |
Cinematography | Peter Pau |
Editing | Eric Strand |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2008 |
Produced by | Casey Silver Productions, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Huayi Brothers, Relativity Media |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Fantasy, action |
Language | Very infrequent |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | Continuous, some fantastical, some realistic |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Stephen Farber | 10 | |
Die Burger Sanette Lomberg | 10 | |
Cape Times Kenneth Turan | 10 | |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson Though The Forbidden Kingdom pilfers freely from Drunken Master, Iron Monkey and The Bride With White Hair, it all adds up to a forgettable variation on The Karate Kid due to its lacklustre action scenes, plodding narrative and charmless young hero. | 5 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli For martial arts action fans, The Forbidden Kingdom may be the best fantasy story since the genre was opened to a wider audience by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. | 15 | |
ScreenIt Clearly nothing great but fairly easy to watch even if it seems redundant in today's first-person active video games. | 10 | |
Metacritic.com 26 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 110 critics | 12 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Great fight scenes, but too much filler. | 12 | |
Average .. 53% | 11 |