The Myth (2005)
"Shen hua" (original title)

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... See full synopsis »

Director:

Stanley Tong

Writers:

Hai-shu Li, Stanley Tong,

Stars:

Jackie Chan, Hee-seon Kim, Tony Leung Ka Fai

5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Jackie Chan	...	General Meng Yi / Dr Jack Chan
Hee-seon Kim	...	Ok-soo
Tony Leung Ka Fai	...	William
Mallika Sherawat	...	Samantha
Ken Lo	...	Dragon
Rongguang Yu	...	Zhao Kuang
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ram Gopal Bajaj	...	The Guru
Min-su Choi	...	General Choi (as Choi Min Soo)
Jason Chong	...	Jack / General Meng-Yi (English Revoice)
Kumman Gopakumar	...	Dasar Policeman
Hiro Hayama	...	Tiger
Jun He	...	Phoenix
Leon Head	...	Dr. Smith
Sasidharan Nair Sajith Kumar	...	Dasar Guard A
Biju Kumman	...	Dasar Policeman

Storyline

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... See full synopsis »

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Plot Keywords:

elephant | dancing | beheading | dance | prince | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [hk]

Country:

Hong Kong China

Language:

Mandarin Cantonese English Korean

Release Date:

23 September 2005 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

The Myth

Filming Locations:

Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Box Office

Budget:

$15,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$801,793 (Hong Kong) (23 September 2005)

Gross:

$2,164,765 (Hong Kong) (14 October 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

JCE Entertainment Ltd., China Film Group, China Film Co-Production Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

122 min 118 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was the original choice to play the Indian princess but she was on tour at the time and her busy schedule didn't allow her to take the role.

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Goofs

During the first sword fight, Jackie's character accidentally impales his opponent, at an angle upward through his back. Upon the camera moving away and then back, the sword is suddenly through his opponent's stomach, completely level.

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Soundtracks

"The Myth"
Written by Han Hong

User Reviews

Worth it for the rat glue factory scene alone

It's worth seeing the movie just even for the rat glue factory scene. It's a wonderful Jackie Chan physical comedy combined with a really nice striptease from the super hot Indian actress. Sure to become a classic scene.

The rest of the movie constitutes of a historical "Hero" like war martial art action with some modern Jackie Chan slapstick. The plot is very tenuous and was probably written after someone wanted a story with Chinese history combined with a modern drive towards the nascent Chinese scientific and technological resurgence.

Jackie Chan plays an Indiana Jones like archaeologist which spirals into a Lara Croft style adventure of finding very strange but mindbogglingly powerful things. Meanwhile a very hazy parallel story runs of a concubine who falls for a general played by Jackie Chan a few hundreds years in the past. There is anti-gravity devices and immortality pills thrown in as well.

Though it does get really cheesy and maudlin at times, it's a really fun movie to watch.