Product Details

• Actors: Jackie Chan, Hee-seon Kim, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Mallika Sherawat, Ken Lo
• Directors: Stanley Tong
• Writers: Stanley Tong, Hai-shu Li, Hui-Ling Wang
• Producers: Albert Yeung, Barbie Tung, Bobby Bedi, Bud Robertson
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: October 30, 2007
• Run Time: 122 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000UNYK3U
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,280 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description
AN ARCHEOLOGIST IS SEEKING TO DISCOVER THE LOCATION OF THE GREATEST ARTIFACT IN CHINESE HISTORY - AS WELL AS HIS OWN DESTINY.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One my favorite Jackie Chen films, December 21, 2007

By	N. Mirakov - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really enjoyed this film and so did my kids. I heard about this film through a friend of mine and I must say that I was pleasantly suprised. The acting was pretty good and so were the action scenes. I would love to have seen this movie at the theaters.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Indi-"Chan"-a Jones style martial arts film, May 6, 2008

By	R. Kyle (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

How could I resist the baaad pun? "Myth" is actually a renamed Chinese film from 2005 called "San Wa."

Briefly, Jack (Chan) is an archaeologist who dreams of a past life as a General (Meng Yi) in Ancient China.

When he's asked by a colleague, William (Tony Leung Ka Fai) to help find a scientfic discovery relating to defying gravity, Jack returns to China and faces his dream princess Ok-soo (Hee-seon Kim) and his own past failure as the General to protect her.

The story's a bit of Indiana Jones and a bit of the fallen Samurai myth. I very rarely watch subtitled films, but "Myth" was easy enough to follow and provided enough amusement to make the rental worthwhile.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One of Jackie Chan's better recent efforts, December 28, 2007

By	Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

The Myth initially feels like Jackie Chan is reinventing his Armour of God movies just as he reinvented the Police Story series, with a slightly darker tone. The two plot strands aren't always as complimentary as they could be, with the historical backstory of Chan's general falling in love with the Emperor's latest concubine far more interesting than the modern-day Chan's efforts to uncover their secret. It's not always successful, not least because of some poorly time CGI, but it does offer an enjoyable fight on a glue factory assembly line that plays out like a demented version of twister and a spectacular battle scene (Stanley Tong is clearly a fan of Anthony Mann, copying several set-ups from The Fall of the Roman Empire) en route to the finale. And the last half hour is impressive stuff, be it a surprisingly bloody (for Chan) one-against-all battle that sees him fighting atop a mountain of corpses or the scenes in a giant weightless mausoleum that make imaginative use of superior wire work and which do carry a sense of wonder to them.

Surprisingly, the extras on the Asian 2-disc set are all subtitled in English, including the audio commentary, so for fans that might be a better bet than Sony's US release.