Chuan shuo

This was the most boring Jackie Chan movie I've ever seen. The script and acting were terrible - no research, no respect, and a completely distorted portrayal of history. It wasn't just a bad movie; it was an outright insult. A waste of time and money. It felt like a pathetic attempt made solely to disgrace the name of Mongolia. The depiction of the Xiongnu warriors in this film - exaggerated to elevate the filmmakers while degrading actual history - was absolutely revolting. Even a child with a basic understanding of history would find it appalling. Let me repeat: the movie was incredibly boring. The AI effects were clumsy, the character interactions were awkward, and the storytelling lacked any meaningful development. This wasn't a film - it was a complete insult and a distortion of history. I'm deeply disappointed that Jackie Chan took part in such a disgraceful project. It's not just disappointing - it's downright heartbreaking. My trust is broken 1000%.

But good luck getting to it. Prior to the final 25 minutes, you get to watch a mostly awful film. Little of the first 96 minutes of the film take place in the present, maybe 12 minutes of it does. The modern day bits within the first 61 minutes are passable with good moments but not that interesting. The scenes in the past are mostly crap with some decent bits of choreography. Don't even get me started on how terrible the deaged Jackie looks that they use for the scenes in the past.

Bizarrely , the final 25 minutes of the film are excellent. Jackie gets a great finale fight that is extremely rewatchable and rewarding to a fan like myself. This great fight easily is better than any action scene in The Myth and better than most of Jackie's fight scenes in his films from 2005 to the present day. Also, Jackie's Archaeological team members are actually entertaining in this part of the movie. Don't lLet this fool you. Jackie splendidly gets the bulk majority of the finale fight to himself with only minor help from the group of young people. This in stark contrast to Kung Fu Yoga and Vanguard, where his teammates constantly get in the way of Jackie's action and engage in their own uninspired melees.

So, yeah ,the four stars which I give this film, three of which are for the final 25 minutes. I would love to get the film on Bluray just for the stuff at the end and one can't deny the beautiful, well shot locations throughout the film.

Beautiful shots and cinematography on amazing nature locations. The actors especially the female protagonist is awesomely beautiful. I warched this movie on the new CMGO Celestial movie app at high resolution on a 4K Smart TV. You don't need to buy very expensive Blu Ray disc to watch this movie with today's early 2025 technologies according to some other commentators here. Streaming apps quality is at par with Blue Ray these days. So, the experience is exceptionally captivating. The intro soundtrack of the predecessor, The Myth, Endless Love, brought back fond memories. The storyline is mediocre. I gave more stars for the beautiful landscapes.

Set during the Han dynasty era, general Zhao Zhan (Jackie Chan) and his friend Huajun (Lay Zhang) save Princess Mengyun (Gülnezer Bextiyar) from a ruthless Prince Hu Duna (Aarif Rahman). Zhao Zhan and Huajun fall in love with Princess Mengyun. In the present world, archeologist Professor Fang (Jackie Chan) starts dreaming about Han dynasty era, particularly his past self and soon his student Wang Jing too starts to have the same dream. With these lives interconnected across eras, it is upto Fang to find the proper closure to all these characters spread across two different timelines.

Stanley Tong has tried to milk the sequel factor to The Myth but sadly, A Legend simply doesn't have anything going in it's favor. The Myth had it's entertaining moments, merging two different timelines in a better way. This is exactly where A Legend fails as there is no sync between Han dynasty era and modern times segment nor does the love story from the flashback work. Worse, the flashback takes majority of the screen time with a de-aged Jackie Chan and it only ends up dragging the story. The usual Jackie Chan fun elements are nearly non-existant till the climax fight which by then is way too late. The screenplay is dated and tries hard to recreate the same template of The Myth. In that attempt, the film fails to entertain and the decision to fill in majority of the film with the flashback was a blunder.

Like said in review title it doesn't come anywhere close to the quality of the production or the story of Myth. But if you can sit through the middle portion, you can enjoy the start and the end.

Viewers should note though that this movie is primarily targeted towards the Chinese audience. And likely as another project to promote protection of cultural heritage among the youth through attractive media.

Story was the weakest link.

Main problem with the story was that their was no proper connection between the modern world story and historical story. Which meant there would not be any consequences from actions in modern story or historical story that had an impact on the other.

You would notice the opposite in the myth, where we are invested in both narratives of the story.

It was bad given what they could have done with the material available based on the historical scenario used for the basis of the historical part of the story.

The music was OK. Nothing memorable beside the myth OST.

Easter eggs from the myth and Kung Fu Yoga were great. But wish they ended this with a proper conclusion to the myth storyline. Maybe something like those 2 characters walking away togather or something like that.

Finally, felt like there wasn't enough effort put into convincing the audience that the general from past is Jackie from current time. That also had a detrimental effect on the story.

To conclude if you enjoyed the myth and Kung Fu Yoga, you can watch this movie and be happy with it. Not joyful or sentimental, but happy and nostalgic.