Jet Li’s Wonderful Adventure in Hollywood, Leaving These Amazing Action Blockbusters

The film ‘Unleashed’ was directed by Louis leterrier and written by Luc Besson, the film was starred by the famous Kung Fu star Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob hoskins. The film tells a story that the killer Danny getting rid of non-human life and restored lost Dignities after meeting the Black blind Fiddler Sam and his adopted daughter Victoria.  

The film ‘War’ is a 2007 American action crime thriller film directed by Philip G. Atwell in his directorial debut, The film stars Jet Li and Jason Statham, it is also the best of Jet Li’s movies in Hollywood, the film ‘War’ features a collaboration between Jet Li and Jason Statham, reuniting them for the first time since 2001's The One. Jason Statham plays an FBI agent determined to take down a mysterious assassin known as Rogue (played by Jet Li), after his partner is murdered.

The Hollywood film ‘Kiss of the Dragon’ is a 2001 English-language French action thriller film directed by Chris Nahon and starring an international cast of Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, and Tchéky Karyo. The film was made to satisfy Li's fans, who requested more realistic fight scenes. It is notable as most of the action sequences did not use CGI or wire work; only two scenes required CGI enhancement and only one scene involved wire work.

The film ’Cradle 2 the Grave’ is a 2003 American action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, and starring Jet Li and DMX. The film was released in the United States on February 28, 2003. The film tells a story about the hero rescuing the hostages while he accidentally caught with conspiracy of the proliferation of the new weapon war,

The film ‘Romeo Must Die’ is a 2000 American action-crime thriller directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak in his directorial debut, the film starring Jet Li and Aaliyah. In the film, a Chinese former police officer is arriving to the US in order to avenge his brother's death, while he also falls in love with a rival mobster's beautiful daughter and struggling together against both the Chinese and both the American mobs. It is considered Jet Li's breakout role in the English speaking American film industry.

The One is a 2001 American science fiction action-martial arts film written and directed by James Wong. The film stars Jet Li, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham and Carla Gugino. The film was released in the United States on November 2, 2001.

The Film ‘Shaolin Temple’, is Jet Li’s debut, Also His Most Classic Work

As we know, 1982’s film ‘Shaolin Temple’ was unarguably one of the most classic kung fu movies in Chinese film history. As the debut showing of Jet Li, who is now one of the most famous Chinese kung fu stars internationally alongside Jackie Chan, It tells a traditional Chinese heroic story: A talented young man’s family gets slaughtered, forcing him to escape to the Shaolin Temple, seeking revenge by studying martial arts. After a series of tests and difficulties, he grows to be a national hero by saving the life of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Actually, to many people’s surprise, this was actually based on a true story. This film broke several records at that time. It was the first Hong Kong-produced film that entered the mainland market and whirled away more than 100 million RMB.

19-year-old Jet Lin in 1982's Shaolin Temple

As Jet Li’s film, the very first film, Shaolin Temple is a moviewith a lot of pretty solid martial arts action! This film is definitely somewhat of a stake in the sand for Jet Li as it has a quality story backed up with some good action.  The fights really show some fancy moves and high flying kicks that make up a good acrobatic performance. The young Jet Li’s first onscreen performance was surprised and he did it well, along with the rest of the cast.

Actually, this film was an effort to help a struggling Shaoloin Temple back in 1980.  By bringing a great story to the big screen they hoped to market Shaolin somewhat and revive it’s dwindling membership. Thanks to the quality of the film, it seems to have worked!

The Classics of Kung Fu Film: Hero, Starred by Jet Li

The famous director Zhang Yi-mou had directed many well-received motion pictures such as the film ‘Red Sorghum’, ‘Ju Dou, ‘Raise the Red Lantern’, but actually, the Chinese film director didn’t attract mainstream attention in the West until he tried his hand at the Kung Fu films, then in 2002, he made the film ‘Hero’ , which starred by Jet Li and Donnie Yen.

Very fortunately, Jet Li also persuaded Zhang to resurrect the Hero project and finish the film. As we know, Jet Li’sfilms are mostly Kung Fu films, so her was also invited to star this movie, In the movie, which boasted a $17-million budget, Donnie Yen plays Lone Sky Iron Shield, part of a trio of assassins trying to kill Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di, the infamous dynastic figure who fought to unify China during the third century B.C. Jet Li plays Qin’s bodyguard.

Jet Li told the reporter before heading to China to film that he loved the script so much that when he finished reading it, he cried twice because his character Nameless has strong feelings about what’s going on, Jet Li also expressed that in his career, it’s the first script that made him cry. It’s an incredible story where drama is first and action is there to help the story.

The unique aspect of the Jet Li in Hero is certainly the way they fight without fighting. According to kung fu folklore, martial artists with powerful chi could sit in front of each other, send their spirits out of their bodies and have the spirits fight. A fighter died if his spirit died during the fight. This is the first time most Americans had seen this on-screen.

In some ways, the success of these two different approaches was measured at the box office. Hero became the first foreign-language film to open at No. 1 in the United States. It went on to gross $53 million.