His bullied backstory and single parent upbringing alludes to Kamen’s 1984 script for The Karate Kid, but that idea is also abandoned when a magical urn arrives and out jumps our ancient Chinese characters – played by Mark Chao and Ni Ni. The boy is a keen gamer, and you’re half-expecting him to be sucked into his computer screen, but that theme is never quite realised. ![]() The boy has to rescue a kidnapped princess and defeat an evil tyrant – played by another American, Dave Bautista. The story follows an American teenager from a single parent household who gets transported to ancient China via a giant mystical urn. ![]() The tone is generally light and played for younger audiences, but the mix of fantasy and realism doesn’t quite work together. It’s a film of quite contrasting visions. ![]() An English-language Chinese-French co-production filmed in Canada and China from Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.
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