Posters: THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM

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Posted by Matt Holmes. Last modified on January 31st, 2008 at 12:37pm

Dear, oh dear.

You wait years for Jet Li and Jackie Chan to actually do a movie together and when it finally happens both men are past their prime (especially Chan) and the result looks to be an awful looking, family friendly crap-fest (at least from everything we have seen) that instantly I don’t wanna pay my money to see.

In fact it’s so bad, both actors have been virtually apologizing about how much it sucks before it even comes out!

Could Li & Chan have not found a better project than this? An Asian gangster kung fu movie perhaps or a real classic martial arts movie?

This stinks of a Hollywood production. THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM opens April 18th (no U.K. release yet) from THE LION KING director Rob Minkoff…

Rest of the character one-sheets after the jump

source - joblo, yahoo

Categories: Jet-Li, Movie News, Posters, Rob Minkoff, jackie-chan, the-forbidden-kingdom

3 Comments »

well this sucks. those posters are pretty lame if i do say myself.
To have thought: years and years of hoping these two martial arts legends would team up to do a movie…but certainly not this type of movie.
Maybe…quite hopefully they will feel such regret for doing this movie that they will consider making it up to us with a better strictly badass film for the martial arts/action lovers. maybe a longshot, but that’d be great.
I know they look quite bad in those posters but I think they still have it in them for a movie for themselves.

Comment by ALK | January 31, 2008

The further you go down, the worse the posters get. Nevertheless, depsite worries over it being Westernised and directed by the man who did Stuart Little (die mouse, die…) I will hold out hope in the Chan Man and Jet Li to deliver some excellent martial arts mastery and a really enjoyable film.

I hope…

Comment by James Clayton | January 31, 2008

i have to agree that this is a family film, it does not have the dark and adult feel one would have hoped for from having two of the biggest asian martial artist stars in film today.

However it is well produced and the interaction of both Li and Chan is both enjoyable and fun to watch. So if ur looking for a fun family film to watch on a lazy sunday afternoon this is one not to miss.

Comment by juggy | May 19, 2008