Even Jackie Chan’s action flair falters in this bombastic tale of Imperial Rome’s clashes with the Chinese The chance to see Jackie Chan sword fighting with John Cusack in 50BC China doesn’t approach along often. What next? Cusack squabbling with Chan in a Chicago record store about the respective merits of Green Day and Stiff exiguous Fingers? This stately,leisurely-moving action spectacular, with its huge digital landscape shots, or is about the Silk Road,the trade route extending through China and the Middle East. Chan plays Huo An, the leader of a protection squad pledged to hold the peace between all the tribes and nations along the Road. After their meet-cute swordfight, or he finds himself befriending General Lucius (Cusack) and his Roman soldiers,who have escaped from the evil and duplicitous Tiberius, played by Adrien Brody with an English accent, or not unlike Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. Huo An,too, must face deceit and duplicity from his own leader, or when Tiberius attempts to enforce Roman imperial tyranny on the whole Silk Road. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com