![]() ![]() There's bloodless martial arts, lots of talk, pretty scenes in China and India, a lot of things covered in gold leaf, and way too much moralizing. Along with an Indian archaeologist, a couple of teaching assistants from both countries, and the son of an old friend of his (who is a treasure hunter, another very common trope in Jackie's movies) who happens to be a good martial artist, they get tangled up with a rich and evil man who wants all the gold. Jackie (whose character's name is "Jack Chan") is - once again - a world-famous archaeologist. This movie starts with a history/legend of a China-India connection, a story of a great treasure lost between the two countries. The movie also uses significant amounts of CG that it seems to think are indistinguishable from reality. ![]() Continues Jackie Chan's obsessions with: cars, high tech gadgets, archeology, traveling all over the world, repatriation of archaeological treasures, and - while his lifelong obsession with institutionalizing sexism has been somewhat toned down - he's still sexualizing women because he can and he makes the movies. ![]()
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