Chinese Jet Li Movies?

I have to confess… I’m a fan of Jet Li movies. This has come about mostly because of Hero, but as of last Saturday I also liked Once upon a time in China. I watched part I and the first half of part II while I was babysitting for my buddy Stricky-Strick.

I think it’s not so much because of Jet Li, although I think he plays his parts convincingly, speaking in a language I don’t understand at all. I just like the nationalist undertones in those two movies. I imagine what it would be like if we put out movies like that, in my mind it would not be quite the same. I guess to me I always have a soft spot for underdog tales, and to me America is no underdog, whereas the setting of these movies places the cast in underdog-type roles.

So maybe it’s not so much I like Jet Li movies, but rather movies where the underdog works hard and topples the de facto alpha dog/faction just because they want it bad enough.

Hmm… story of my life, really.