A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.
English, Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central, Panjabi, Punjabi, German
Budget:
$52,000,000
Revenue:
$37,713,879
Awards:
1 nomination
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Everything here is borrowed from other movies ...
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
18 Apr 2003
rotten:
One of those motley movies that borrows from just about everywhere.
– Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
18 Apr 2003
rotten:
[T]he thing about the martial arts sequences -- you've got the great Chow Yun-Fat, but this thing is directed MTV style: cut here, cut there, close-up. So we can't really tell if he's doing stunts or if it's all tricks of camerawork.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
21 Apr 2003
rotten:
They made a ton of junky movies in Hong Kong, but those were dazzlingly fluid and high-flying junky movies. This American retread has the same sort of hack plot but none of the bravura.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
22 Apr 2003
rotten:
The fight scenes are routine, the humor juvenile, and the Toronto locales rendered drab through muddy cinematography.