Fearless 霍元甲

Fearless 霍元甲 is officially announced by Jet Li as his last action film.

Quotes from Jet Li on Channel 8 News dated 19 Jan 06 at 10pm.

"这是我用我的心去解释我这四十二年来的人生的一种感悟对于武术的一种感悟."

This is what I use my heart to explain my forty two years of life, a kind of feeling, and what I feel about Wushu.

"我想这是最后一部因为为了做一个总结自己的从八岁练武到四十二岁的旅程,心灵旅程做了一个总结."

I think this is the last action film, for making a conclusion for my journey of practising martial arts(Wushu) from 8 years old till forty two years old, a conclusion for the journey of my heart.

A storyline that is typical of other action genres of Jet Li, much alike Once Upon a Time In China and Fong Sai Yuk. The story starts off with Jet Li's character 霍元甲 who discovered his father's Wushu manual and taught himself how to fight. Following his numerous fighting victories after mastering the skills in the book, he becomes arrogant. Incidentally, this arrogance would later cause the death of the people he loves the most. Filled with shame, he fled Tianjin and wandered aimlessly until he was Granny Sun and her blind grand-daughter who helped to assuage his pain and his desire to fight. A chance encounter with a Thai fighter rewakened his desire for fighting and he devleoped a new form of fighting style that would become the legendary Mizong(Missing) Fist. 霍元甲enlightened to discover that the essence of fighting lies in the spirit of sportsmanship and not in brutality. Eventually, he returns to Tianjin and engages in a variety of fighting tournaments that would help to restore the honour of his country.

In watching Jet Li's movies, the crux is not truly in enjoying the stoyline or looking at the beautiful landscape scenary in the film, but indulging in Jet Li's iconic martial arts duels. I would say his fighting sequences are choreographed to be the best. In this film, the fighting sequences are also directed by the same people from the Matrix abd Kill Bill.

Nonetheless, the last action film of Jet Li makes this a must for people who likes action films or who are supporters of Jet Li movies. But audiences who do not like this genre of films may also consider it because this film will be showing during the holiday season and its a great film for viewing besides the fact that even at the age of forty two, Jet Li still looks to be charismatically well adorned, although the signs of ageing is visible in close up views.

Jay Chou has been given the opportunity to sing the theme for the movie whose title is the same name as the movie 霍元甲. In an interview given to Jay Chou, he said that this is his dream come true because he is finally able to sing the movie song for his idol which is Jet Li. Jay has not missed a single movie of Jet Li which he had made in the past. In the publicity session for promoting the movie, Jay Chou meets up with Jet Li and they exchanged with each other their individual works - Jay handed over his musical theme for 霍元甲to Jet Li and Jet Li passed his self written martial arts Wushu booklet to Jay.

霍元甲MTV by Jay Chou:





Official Movie website and trailers:

http://www.fearlessthemovie.com/main2.htm