Jackie's Role: Lu Yan, a Chinese drunken beggar who has to help the American main character deliver some magical staff to its rightful owner. The Bad Guy: Jet Li, the only other Chinese superstar who you can likely name off the top of your head. Before he was in the movies, Li was a wildly successfuly martial arts prodigy and was basically the Michael Phelps of Wushu. He is also known dismissing President Nixon to his face when he was a kid, which adds even more points to his already badass reputation. The Fight: Just the fact that it took many years (and millions of dollars) to get Jackie and Jet onscreen is an achievement. Despite being in a fairly average movie about a famous Chinese folktale (that's produced by Americans), their long-awaited fight is one of the movie's few highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_wvv_qOvRs There are fast-paced fisticuffs, well-choreographed exchanges, and meta references to Jackie's drunken boxing and Jet's Shaolin monk movies. Admittedly, the wire-fu is a bit much, the slow-mo shots are unnecessary, and there's a distinct over-polished 'Hollywood' look, but they're all tolerable small things you can easily put up with for the sake of watching two of the world's most famous movie martial artists beat the hell out of each other.
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