Not to be confused with old-skool martial-arts flick KUNG FU VS. YOGA this one is a newer Jackie Chan movie. The first 5 minutes are complete CGI/video-game-looking nonsense. Then the rest of the movie is filled with CGI animals(cartoon lions and hyenas and wolves, oh my!) and other enhanced fx to make things looks as terrible and unrealistic as possible. I understand Mr. Jackie was around 65 years old when this was made but maybe leaving the kung fu to the younger folks would have been preferable to enhancing everything to the point of ridiculousness. Also this is supposed to be a sorta mix of a kung fu flick and a Bollywood film so everything ends really stupidly with a big dance number. I would recommend sticking with sticking with way earlier Chan for better action unless you don't mind a movie that doesn't really look like a movie very much.
There's some conjecture that this is maybe a sequel to Jackie's 2005 film THE MYTH since the character he plays in both films is an archaeologist named Jack but not having seen that one, and since it doesn't exactly look like prime Chan to me I'm in no hurry to, I can't say.
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