The Myth

I just watched The Myth on DVD. Guess what? A good film? Definitely not for me! I was told by my friend that it's a great film. Initially I wanted to watch it in cinema . However I was very busy and could not spare some time for it. I should be grateful for that.

I was scolding the script writer half way when I was wacthing the film and this continues until the end. It's totally unlogic and does not make any sense. The explanation they gave are not scientific valid. In the movie, they said that if an object rotate at a very high speed, it will lose it's mass and weigh. that's bullshit! Einstein in his theory of relativity states that if an object increases it's speed, it's mass will be greater! maybe you might want to say that this is only a movie and I should not think like that. Okie, fine. But there are still lots of things that are left unexplained.

The scene kept changing from present to the past and this makes me confused. How is the India get connected with the Qin dynasty? Who actually owns the sword? Why did Jackie Chan fight so well in India but he's so weak inside the waterfall? What can the medicine do to people? People can't grow old? How about getting disease and getting hurt? If people who took that medicine still can get hurt, there's a possibility to die isn't it? Is there any medicine left? If yes, why the Qin Wang did not take it? Why Jackie Chan has the same look in both his life? If we are reborn, we won't have the same look right? Why when Tony Leong called Jackie Chan as "Jackson" only the princess realised he's not the general? What happened to Tony Leong in the end? melting in something? What's that? Why when the stone is removed in India, the "flying man" immediately fall down; when the stone was removed inside the waterfall it took sometime for everything to collapse?

This is only a small part of those unlogic scene. However I have to admit that the director have a great shoot having to produce all the quality scene. The same goes for Jackie Chan, his Chinese Kungfu is still good though he looks old. However, the storyline made this film rubbish!

No wonder a month ago, Jackie Chan asked that all the award winners to produce a film to save the Hong Kong Movie industry. This is the only way he can think of! He invited a Korean and an Indian star in this film in order to get good publicity. However this will not works if this is not a good film. You can get all the award winners in a film yet a bad one is produced! The fans might be attracted to go into cinema, however they will be disappointed.

I'm a Jackie Chan fans, however I'm totally disappointed with his latest film. His previous film - New Police Story is a good one. Maybe he is just trying to get some attention from hollywood by adding some chinese history, Indian culture and some so-called high-tech elements in his film. In the end, it's not myth! It came out as MEAT, a hard one to digest indeed!