Seraphim_Faith It's a high rating because it's Jackie Chan, and the show has its merits.However,I really, really wished that the "love element" in this movie could have been expanded on. You know, when I hear the soundtrack (especially the song which Jackie and Hee-seon sang in together) and after I watched the movie (TV premiere)...I am really tempted to say,"...Damn it! They don't fit together!"I'm a sucker for love stories. And call this whining, grumbling, w/e, but take out some really needless humour (a horse kicking a person FOUR times and falling when we know a real horse kick would send a person flying, broken ribs included), and expand on the love between the general and the princess, add a few more flashbacks, increase the time they interact in both past and present; I don't know, make a happier ending instead! It'll really make the movie much better.To me, the movie feels a little too packed. It feels...rushed. Trying to jam love, action and stuff together...it really leaves one found wanting...for more.And the ending. A book, some wine, and a zoomed-out camera...damn it I say, even putting some black-and-white versions of one or more of the flashbacks at the end, would really increase "replayability value" and made me feel closer to the movie's love story.Melodrama much, but I beg of you, Mr. Chan; your shows are good. From the "Drunken Master" to "Rush Hour", all are uniquely yours, really love your shows. But I think this time round, you really kind of smudged your own rep a little.If you consider making anything remotely resembling a romance or whatever next time, please be more serious about it. This love story will still have a place in my heart, though.

unbrokenmetal What do you expect when you see a movie like this? Something huge with thousands of extras and perfect computer effects? Check. Archaeology action like Indiana Jones? Check. Tragical love story with beautiful lady? Check. Speedy stunts, fights and fun like in the good old Jackie Chan flicks? Check. Judging by the sum of its parts, this ought to be the greatest movie of the 21st century. In reality, it's not quite so. 2 tremendously entertaining hours, yes, but not a perfect movie.What are the reasons? I'd like to name three. First, I always see Jackie Chan with a helmet, desperately trying to keep a straight face, when I am supposed to see the general. He just isn't that type of guy. The dreams or historical flashbacks are therefore less convincing than the scenes from the present day. Second, the whole anti-gravity stone thing has much too much Spielberg in it. The myth could have remained a myth, in other words: the audience doesn't always want a scientific explanation why things happen, especially if it's as unlikely as this one. Third, I think what neither worked well in this movie is the villain. From the moment he appears and does the usual "I'll steal the big Blah to rule the world" villain routine, the rest becomes predictable. If the screenplay had dared to move along a different path, it would have evoked less of the "seen it before" feeling. I enjoyed it, but regrettably it's not without the little flaws mentioned.

elshikh4 Well, that's the most polite and objective way to express my feeling about this movie. I think they called it (the Myth) whether because they found no title fair enough to describe the incompatible elements they chose concerning history, legends, transmigration of souls, BLA BLA BLA, or maybe they named it (The Myth) unconsciously as the closest word to (The Mess) ! It's common at our slang to characterize anything badly mishmash as (salad) ! So taste this "one" with me. There are a lot of good sequences (I liked the glue's factory the most). In fact those very detached sequences were the best thing here at all but as long as they remained that detached, you'll never get the joy or even the taste of a whole movie after. You watch a good chase to save the princess, a good stealing for a flying sword, a tough sword duel, a nice romance (yet in detached scenes also !), ..to the end of what needed better plot which would've created solider, more convincing, more gratifying movie. Even James Bond's movies got plots more connected than this one !I remember that I had vertigo while watching; for instance at the war sequence ! Basically why I would bother myself to be worry over (Jackie) in the time that I know so well that he would be totally fine in the future ?! So whatever happened in this war (especially the horses' kicking !) Jackie will survive eventually ! How they were so determined as well as enthusiastic to make that whole sequence while knowing that the audience would never tense ??! Originally, look at the 2 parallel dramatic lines of the movie; they didn't attune the sense of thrill between them both as the story of one was holding up the other all along ! Moreover : why did they show us India like it's in the middle ages ?! Why didn't they make it all a time travel in the first place ? How a history professor is living in that luxury ? How Jackie -who's too short- could manage to be a general ?, and why I fell asleep while watching what's supposed to be An Action Adventure movie ??The answer of all of that : They couldn't mix it nicely.Yet it wasn't that awful. Because it had (Jackie Chan) anyway, a real great music score, and (Mallika Sherawat); although it was for some moments but watching her in that white outfit, or with the elephant.. WAW that specifically was wickedly enjoyable and symbolically creative to say the least !Generally...It's the case of having some right vegetables in one tasteless salad !

siungsen A while back, Jackie wanted to be in a drama movie. What a missed opportunity this was! He could have had that in the second half of this movie (in the modern time). Skip all the fantasy stuffs (meteorite, immortality pill, horse kicking, celestial palace etc.), and just focus on the love story that restart in modern time --- this could be a good movie. He had a good opportunity with Kim Hee Soon. Not the best chemistry, but if allowed to developed further, it is so possible. Wonderful song, too, he sang with Kim Hee Soon --- if you know the meaning of every single word in the lyric. Perhaps wrong director and vision… But then, Stanley was the one who wrote the story. His main weakness is focusing on too much action (and CGI!) and lack of substance (drama). The action part was not even that good other than the time when Jackie fights. A horse that kicks on command… I had to chuckle on that one. Not because it's not possible; just the fact that the CGI looks so bloody awful!