Film Review: Jet Li's Fearless

This is easily director Ronny Yu's best film sincethrough his inner self discovery at the peaceful
THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR. He's had successidyllic village of women, who save and heal him
here in the states with BRIDE OF CHUCKY andfrom near death, as something just as important
JASON VS. FREDDY but those type of popcornin his life if not more as everything else that
flicks can in no way compare to the scope andcame before it.
pathos of his latest film JET LI'S FEARLESS, theAt a running time of just at 103 minutes the film
true story of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huofelt too short. It left me wanting to see more
Yuanjia (Jet Li) who was the founder and spititual(which is not common). Yu has never had a
guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation.problem with pacing in his films and he's always
With action choreographer Yuen Woo-pingknown when to get in and get out without too
returning to help Li with some of the mostmuch excess.
amazing fight sequences since HERO, this film isI must also commend Jet Li for a very
anything but non-stop action (the two previouslycommanding performance. I'm not a Li fan but
worked together on FIST OF LEGEND, BLACKthen again most of his output that I've seen is his
MASK, and most recently on UNLEASHED). This isAmerican films which for the exception of
not to say that fighting is all that there is becauseUNLEASHED are all lacking. I must admit that in his
the film is making it a point, through Huo Yuanjia'sown language and style his Chinese films all endure
spiritual journey, that fighting is not all that there isbetter than his American output and hopefully he'll
in life. Yu crafts the scenes where Yuanjia is goingbe given better roles in the future.