Michael Ledo The first 30 minutes of this two hour film builds up the character of Huo An (Jackie Chan) the leader of the protection squad of the Silk Road in ancient times. About 30 minutes later we get introduced to our second major character, General Lucius (John Cusack) and for the next 30 minutes they unite to fortify a city and practice their fighting skills, because all the fighting in the first thirty minutes was just Asians. Then after an hour we have the Battle for Mordor against Tiberius (Adrien Brody) an ominous figure.The film is a "could of" happened type pseudo-history. I found the plot to be bogged down and the fight sequences ridiculously long and plentiful. Now I will admit they spent money on sets and costumes but kept the dialogue exceeding dry. The Romans native tongue was Latin, and the Chinese spoke Chinese and everyone spoke English, with Huo An speaking broken English...why?The film is a fight film for tweens and teens, particularly those who like martial arts and war films.Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity.

sandi-kirby-983-969578 I'm sure the story line was good, and based on other reviews it's about a time in the history of the Silk Road. I would actually enjoy a historical drama and usually love anything Jackie Chan does... but the script was so forced and bad, just can think of better word. Both Jackie Chan and John Cusack are good actors but this was a horrible train wreck and I could not continue watching... I even tried a 2nd time when it was on again. I hope Jackie makes more historical movies but hope he gets better writers.

Niko Sierra This film is terrible, from the painfully fake wigs to the creepy yet hilarious blind child,I cannot see what they spent the budget on! (Probably on the three main actors and 2304k cameras so we can see every single pore in Cousaks face).The story starts off with a cheesy fight between some odd looking Mongol barbarian types and some Hindu looking people. Jackie Chan jumps into the mix but fails to deliver his usually hilarious performance.Later on he gets arrested and sent to work as slave labour and a few seconds later he's back in control of the city and the man who apparently hated him is now cheering.A Roman legion (With advanced building skills) some how thinks it's clever to charge a fortified city while on horseback! Jackie Chan who's no longer a laborer greets him and lets in the army that was seconds ago trying to invade.They become friends and fix a wall by using tons and tons of metal which would probably have taken a lot longer to collect, melt hammer and bolt into place. Anyways we find out there's a creepy blind kid who is obviously Chinese but some how got cast as a Roman emperor wearing a blonde wig, he can sing Latin even though everyone speaks English. oh by the way he sings what sounds like medieval Latin, not Roman Latin.Anyways I digress, the bad guy (Tiberius, a roman consul or something) arrives and simply walks in through the fortifications that the entire start of the film centered around! not even a single arrow was shot, they just waltz in! Cousak is captured and tortured and the Wigged up emperor child jumps off a cliff while he bawls his eyes out. We find out Adrian Brody (Tiberius) is just butt-hurt because Cousak fell in love with the child and not him. He proceeds to breathe vigorously for the rest of the scene. Somewhere in there we have a flashback of Jackie Strangling his sister and killing her, then flash back to the present.....At this point I quit and turned it off.

nadshi But it's mostly the Huns and the good side of the Roman legion. This is good if you are a fan of Taekwando/Karate formations and dance movies in general... As a Jackie Chan fan I was expecting more goofy "White man can't jump" humor Shanghai Noon/Nights , Around the World in Eighty Days. . . . But there's a lot of blood and gore, with John Cusack playing a rather serious Roman. I think fans of Adrian Brody's other work will like the lack of goofiness, I don't really like his other work. Those who appreciate realism would probably be hyped by ISILevant referencing ruthless decapitation, personally I liked the lack of sexual content, Gladiator without the incest. A little bit Lawrence of Arabia, Jane Fonda's fitness videos and IP-man too. Love the pagoda building, the back story and songs in Latin and Chinese... very clean movie, with a solemn reminder of the barbarism of war, proxy war, drone wars and crucifixion. As well as the elegant discipline of self defense, military training, pagoda building and choreographing dance, A little Asterix there too. I would have preferred more humor or women(Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) but a nice family friendly movie that made me want to practice martial arts formations, work out and lift old skate weights.