Chinese superstar Jet Li's farewell to traditional wushu films is a costume biopic inspired by the exploits of master Huo Yuanjia (1869-1910), who dedicated himself to uniting China's rival schools of wushu (the all-encompassing Mandarin word for various schools of martial arts) and emphasizing the discipline's spiritual component; his efforts helped restore Chinese national pride in the early years of the 20th century, when the country was in the grip of foreign interests and widely derided as weak and enervated. Shanghai, 1910: A huge crowd gathers to watch a brutal series of matches that pit 42-year-old wushu master Huo (Li) against a succession of opponents skill...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
n/a