Le Chevalier des ombres : Entre Yin et Yang

This movie is a half traditional Chinese stories and half video game (CGI that sometimes looks great and sometimes doesn't). It's sort of traditional with lots of spiritual stuff. The production value is pretty high in some set-pieces, and the art direction in general is great. There are also animated cutscenes that are worth the watch (in a style similar to Yoshitaka Amano's art from Final Fantasy).

Sadly, the movie is too silly at times, or too slow and boring in it's development for my taste. It has a very simplistic plot, but I imagine this would have been worth it if done correctly, which is a shame. Some minor parts I really enjoyed (almost everything with the "demon ladies"). A very poor execution drags it down to the floor.

As a Jackie Chan movie it has several action scenes.. that aren't memorable. He isn't as nimble or fun to watch anymore. Overuse of CGI (and I can't stress that enough) and noticeable cables being used in the choreography take you out of it. Also.. farts.

All in all, I'll remember the short animated sequence, the lovely tragedy in it, and forget the rest.

This really is an underrated movie. If it were in English it would likely have a 6 to 7 rating I'm certain. Classic Chan with a variant on some Classic Chinese literature, "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio". It is similar to some of the modern versions of "Journey to the West".

First off, The Knight Of Shadows is not your typical Jackie Chan, kung fu stunt filled action film! In fact, this is Jackie Chan enjoying himself, dangling on wires and dodging CGI monsters and demons - even throwing in a bit of singing between comedy routines just for fun...

I liked this little flick. While I surely missed the master in action, I knew what to expect upon viewing so wasn't disappointed by the end of it. Think A Chinese Ghost Story meets Monster Hunt and you'll be on the right track!

The Knight Of Shadows is a big, colourful, character filled fantasy that plays like a tamer version of Takeshi Miike's Great Yokai War but with a much lighter tone.

There is some wire-fu and swordplay action of course, but for the most of it Jackie flies around writing spells with his magic brush and scaring kids.

It's great to see Jackie in something so different also. It's a genre you never see him venture into, and makes a change from the usual cop role and modern day setting... It would be nice to see hime return to that although with a lot more kung fu fighting!!

The Knight Of Shadows will never go down as a classic, but it does entertain somewhat and passes the time positively.

This is in the magical realm of Jackie-land. Cgi could be better, same for the dialogues. But all in all a funny and good Jacky/love-story. Without the over the top(as in great) fightscenes.

Jackie Chan is a poor scribe who can't sell copies of his books for five cents each. He's also a great and mystical demon hunter armed with the magical Yin-Yang pen, which lets him fight and trap the bad demons and make the good ones serve him. Now he's after mirror demon Elaine Zhong. His newer apprentice, Ethan Juan, won't let him exile her into his book because.... well, that's the story, isn't it.

And a pretty well-told story it is, with some fine sequences of on-screen magic. There's lots of movie flying and, for fans of Jackie Chan, a nice humorous fight sequence about two-thirds of the way through. It's not as extreme and hilarious as the sort he ran through in the mid- and late 1990s, but, hey, he's older than I am, and it's nice to watch him being funny without anyone breaking any bones in the out-take reel.