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Summary: Not enough Jet Li
Review: I will give this movie credit for the fact that there is very little use of wires and other such assists in the fight scenes,but besides from that I think it lacks one major thing,scenes for Jet Li!The story is fair and somewhat touching,but if you want to see lots of Jet Li fight scenes then buy "Fist of Legend".This movie plods along with too many side storys,and a kid that is sugary sweet and cute to the point of being a danger to diabetics!I must say that Jets character sure recovers from greiving the loss of his beloved wife quite quickly,and ends up with the police woman who has been thorn in his side through the whole movie.I think that this could have been a good movie if they had tightened up the story a little more and gave jet alot more screen time.But as it is,I would rather watch "Fist of Legend" again before sitting through this one again.Sorry Jet!
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Summary: An action movie with a touching drama storyline
Review: If there is a thing called a "action date movie", this is it!!! The action will make your mouth water and the story will make you cry (I'm serious). This movie will make your girlfriend drag you into a Jet Li martial art movie next time around... !
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Summary: Above average modern-day action from Jet Lee.
Review: Jet Lee proves himself once again in the modern day arena in this excellent outing. He's supported by a strong cast including Anita Mui and Yu Wing Gong, and with Yuen Kwai at the helm, you expect quality. The wirework in his battle with the main villain is far too over-the-top, but his tonfa fight with a dozen hardy thugs is a real classic.
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Summary: Not really a fighting movie...
Review: Jet Li and the kid in thes movie are good... when they actually fight which isn't a lot at all. The Kid has a fight scene, and Jet has one at the end..., and aside from the opening that's all there is. I know overall it's a good movie, but I usually just watch Jet Li for fighting... which this movie lacks.
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Summary: Jet Li is awesome in this flick!
Review: Jet Li puts on a great performance in My Father Is A Hero. The fight scenes are great and there is good drama which showcases Li's acting talent. You should buy this movie, it's not his best, but it's still really good
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Summary: Father and Son are invincible!!
Review: Jet Li, and child martial arts master Tse Mui (I think), and Anita Mui.. team up for my favorite Jet Li actioner. Li plays an undercover cop, so undercover that his family knows nothing about it. Li must go undecover again to stop some Yakuza. Meanwhile his wife passes away with Little Tse at the mercy of locals and bullies. Tse however will have none of this since Jet Li is his father, and he is one incredible fighter. Anyways the two team up again alongside officer Anita Mui to kick some Yakuza butt. A great movie with a perfect blend of humor, action, romance, and drama. Don't miss the scene with Li swinging Tse around on a rope... lol
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: Ok, first of all if you want to see the dubbed version don't buy the dvd where he is standing with his back towards you. That has only a chinese language option. Now all the people that said this movie only has like three fight scenes don't know what they are talking about. Sure there were only three fight scenes that were 15 minutes long but the rest were good all the same. The action is great and the last fight scene is sick when Jet has those two stick and when he and the kid are fighting together. So basically what I am saying is buy this movie it is really cool and worth having.
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Summary: Not a totally successful mix, but still good at points.
Review: The Chinese title to this one was extremely deceptive: "Letters to Father". It suggests a full-out drama and, to its credit, The Enforcer (an entirely inaccurate title, actually) does contain more dramatic elements and better acting than the usual martial-arts/action fare.What we have here is a true polarization: Truly amazing moments juxtaposed with extreme clumsiness at spots. The ultra-sentimentality of the script is beaten to death time after time in this movie, and sometimes even a pretty good actor falters because of the overkill. Anita Mui isn't very well used in this movie; the part when she breaks down and cries at the death of the mother is completely unbelievable, because the story didn't sufficiently set up the rapport between the women. Xie Mao, who plays the child, is unusually watchable as an actor thanks to some less-than-obvious choices (when his mother dies, he goes for an attempt to be strong which works quite well), and he moves well (though some shots of him in action appear to be sped up). But too much sentimentality still ends up hurting the character. The action sequences and fight choreography are wonderful, without most of the vices that plagued Fist of Legend (slow-mo being the most important one). There *is* too much camera trickery at some points -- overheads, triple cuts, etc. -- but in this one it's acceptable. Less so are the incredibly disorienting ellipses in the storyline, and the incredibly bad acting of Yu Rong Guang, the lead villain, entirely without charisma or humanity, just another smart-cracking bad guy with no depth or real power. When will action writers realize that a villain works better when he's smart and likeable to a degree? This villain is a typical Wong Jing villain (Wong Jing being the tasteless exploitation producer/director who came up with this story), and completely grating to watch. Jet Li does well in this movie, the character tapping into the more brooding side to his cinematic persona, but for nearly 20 minutes his character leaves the film, resulting in a temporary void. Worth a look for slam-bang action sequences, but could've been much, much more given better above-the-line talent and less sentimental raw material.
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Summary: overdubs sucked, movie was great
Review: the only overdub that i really bothered me was the guy who overdubbed jet, who sounded like a super hero or something. but, otherwise, i thought it was a great movie. of course not his best, but i felt it was better than romeo must die. true, the action scenes are far and few, but they are all great, especially the big one on the boat when he has batons and then his kid comes... that scene was so great. a few of the overdubs sounded out of place, for instance if the lead villian said "run him over" and the truck driver calmy says "oh ok, i will", that actually made me laugh. all in all, good movie, but if you are into the fighting more than the story, stick with fist of legend.
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Summary: Awesome Film, Laughable Subtitles
Review: This film is my all-time favorite Jet Li film. Jet's son in the film is set to be the next Jet Li and is an awesome powerhouse in his own right. This movie has some wonderful fighting sequences, though it does seem to drag in a couple spots, when trying to establish the relationships. I didn't get the English version "The Enforcer" because the title has nothing to do with the film (it sounds like a rejected Steven Segal title that a studio exec came up with) and that the dubs are a little cheesy. However, after watching this DVD, I'd have to say I prefer that version. The video quality is barely better than VHS video, and the audio is very tinny, no highs, no lows, even on a 5.1 system, it sounds like it was all recorded in a tin can. The disc seems to be recorded with little to no quality control. Putting the disc in my computer's DVD-ROM drive, the title did not show up as "My Father is a Hero", it showed up as "Untitled". Also, none of the DVD functions are labelled. Selecting subtitles does not give you the choice of English or Chinese (simplified) or Chinese (traditional), it gives you subtitle 1, subtitle 2 and subtitle 3. You get to play around with it to find out. The menus are static images with a single word in English and Chinese for each page/function. It looks like this disc was put together with no care about how it will look. All that I could forgive. The problem that made me return this disc to the store is the subtitles. Chinese film translators, understand this: CONSULT A NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER. I hope they heard that. Every single scene in this movie is filled with lines that either make you go "hunh?" or make you laugh. When Kung Wei tells his boss that he has to go see his son perform, his boss tells him: "If you do that, beware your brain!" Yeah, I'll have to watch out for my brain there, jefe. The subtitles were so horribly/hilariously done, that it was so distracting I couldn't even watch the whole thing through. It's a travesty that this was done to my favorite Jet Li movie. Until some company releases a proper hybrid English/Chinese DVD with a readable/reasonable translation, I guess I have to stick with the cheesy, Hollywoodified dubbed version. Sigh.
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