646f9e108c Archeologist Jack keeps having reoccurring dreams of a past life, where he is the great General Meng Yi, whom is sworn to protect a Korean Princess named OK-soo. Jack decides to go investigate everything with his friend William. Martial arts legend Jackie Chan stars as Jack, a world-renowned archaeologist who has begun having mysterious dreams of a past life as a warrior in ancient China. When a fellow scientist enlists his help locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact. Assisted by the spirit of a noble princess… San wa (or the Myth) is a film that tries to be a lot of things but fails in all of them. It variously attempts to be a romance movie, an action-comedy in the vein of Jackie Chan's usual fare, a historical epic, and a sci-fi/fantasy movie. Though the script attempts to tie all of these elements together in a high-brow epic that spans history, it ends up being a completely incoherent piece of crap. Luckily, the story is bare enough for anyone with minimal logical skills to understand, so the movie's attempts at complexity fail as well.<br/><br/>Story besides, the acting is hammy and misbegotten, and for the action/martial arts scenes you would do better to look to Jackie's earlier movies (for example Drunken Master II). Nevertheless, there are a few amusing fight scenes (which also have no real point or basis on the plot).<br/><br/>On the plus side, there is the cinematography. The vistas and settings are impressive, and the film is crisp so you can really appreciate the vast deserts and luscious waterfalls. The ending battle takes place in a surreal yet picturesque CG world, which was interestingly enjoyable.<br/><br/>In the end, however, you would do better to avoid this ridiculous mishmash and watch Drunken Master for the action, and the Discovery Channel for the vistas. I've always been a fan of Jackie Chan. His ability to act serious and comedic has always been his strengths, this movie however was highly disappointing pretty stupid and definitely overrated.<br/><br/>This story had potential but was poorly executed. Could have been good as 2 separate movies however combined make such a poor combination it can be compared to dipping lychee's in salt.<br/><br/>On the one hand you have Jackie Chan in an epic love story past and present, dreams and millennium long promises waiting to be fulfilled. Epic battle sequences with adventurous archeology.<br/><br/>However on the other hand you have Jackie Chan in his usual comedic self fascinated by dreams, action and comedy.<br/><br/>Now if you add them together you have a serious script with added action comedy which ruin the mood, random useless scenes in India which in no way further the plot and instead a not very entertaining filler smack bang in the middle where crucial plot development could occur. The very beautiful Indian girl disrupts the main and real love story in the movie between the Korean girl. Sexual references in this movie especially when we see flashes of underwear from the Indian girl are quite inappropriate in this film. Sexual references with the Korean girl arguably could have been necessary.<br/><br/>Tony leung kar Fai is a pretty horrible actor (well in this film anyway). He has no chemistry whatsoever with Jackie Chan. His presence weaken the plot and his fateful end leaves viewers with no emotion for him whatsoever, personally i laughed at his pitifulness. <br/><br/>The action epic battle sequences in the Qin era were pretty impressive i must say especially the mountain of a Slain army.<br/><br/>Quite a disappointing entry from Jackie Chan. This movie is in no way art-house, highly overrated and extremely poorly executed
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