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Tai Chi Master

	Our Price: $13.99 List Price: $14.93 Your Save: $ 0.94 ( 6% ) Sales Rank: #3832 (lower is better) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company Starring: Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chin Siu Ho Directed By: Yuen Woo Ping Avg. Customer Rating:
Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Brand: Wellspring Media INC EAN: 0796019813440 Format: Color Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company Release Date: 2008-07-29 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Tai Chi Master Description Superstar Jet Li shows off his legendary speed, power, and agility at the peak of his martial arts prowess in this sweeping action epic. In an age of swordsmen and rebellion, two best friends and fellow martial arts students are expelled from the storied temple of Shaolin, only to meet again on the battlefield one a power-hungry general, the other a freedom-fighting rebel, both mortal enemies. Featuring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon s Michelle Yeoh and directed by the celebrated Yuen Woo-Ping (action choreographer of The Matrix films), Tai Chi Master is a quintessential martial arts classic.
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Tai Chi Master customer reviews: One of all time great Kung Fu films As a fan of the genre, I have seen most of the great Kung Fu films dating back to the 1970s. This movie, until Jet Li's Hero came out, was my favorite Kung Fu film of all time. As with most good Kung Fu films, this movie focuses not on the action. Instead, the movie focuses on human relationships between two lifelong friends who grow up together. One chooses power, wealth, and pleasure. The other chooses to maintain his chosen path as a monk. Their paths inevitably collide, leading to climatic Kung Fu fights between two of the best Shaolin pupils. Although Jet Li's action sequences were great, it was his acting that made his performance stand out. Jet Li plays the role of a betrayed friend brilliantly. Jet Li looked genuinely sad when his friend joins the Army by making fool of himself to impress the Army leader. When his character becomes enlightened with the principles and forces of Tai Chi, Jet Li's facial expressions and movements also change. When this movie was released in 1993, the action sequences were extraordinary. Now, they seem rather ordinary by today's standards. But there is plenty to enjoy. The Shaolin monk fight sequences in the temple still ranks as one of the best Kung Fu fight sequences of all time. The dual between Jet Li and his nemesis friend is also very cool. Their fight scene is made more interesting by the fact the one is slightly better than the other and the better one uses a dynamic power style that the other can't counter. Both pleads to the other to join forces with them, leading to even more drama than otherwise seen in a Kung Fu action. Please do yourself a favor and watch ONLY the Chinese dubbed version with English subtitles. The English dubbed version of this version called "Twin Dragons" massacred the movie by using of terrible English dubbing and by removing most of the wonderful Chinese background music. If you want to watch a Kung Fu film, you are far better off watching it in its original form with English subtitles. I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to watch a good Kung Fu film that has compelling characters and story. twin warriors review My husband and I first saw this movie on T.V., placed orders with several video stores, always on back order, after one year of this, with several different stores; I finally tried amazon.com, OMG! we were watching it by weeks end. :) Excellent quality! same movie different name this movie i found out i allready had but it named something else, so i watched it again because im a jet li fan :) taichi master a good martial arts movie about a rarely seen in the movies form of martial arts. "I don't want to learn kung fu. I don't want to fight. I just want a red bean bun." How awesome is TAI CHI MASTER? Answer: pretty damn awesome. Years ago, this was the first Jet Li movie I've ever seen and, from then on, Jet Li could do no wrong. Not even lesser stuff like MELTDOWN and UNLEASHED could diminish him in my eyes. You gaze at all those old folks practicing their boring tai chi at the park and it all seems far removed from the exhilarating brand of tai chi you see in this film. Jun Bao's tai chi absolutely takes liberties with practical cause and effect, but it's these over-the-top visual effects that popped my eyeballs out of their sockets. Jun Bao (Jet Li) would eventually found the tai chi discipline, but before that he and his best friend Chin Bao were youths who grew up as Shaolin monks. Jun Bao and Chin Bao were inseparable, which meant that the troublemaking Chin Bao time and again got the well-behaved Jun Bao into all sorts of scrapes (most of them pretty funny). But one particularly nasty misadventure led to the two young martial artists being tossed out of the Shaolin temple. In the outside world, Chin Bao's ruthless ambition and Jun Bao's easygoing nature force them on separate paths. When they meet again, it's set in the backdrop of a rebellion rising up against a tyrannical government. They find themselves on opposing sides, Jun Bao now an underground rebel, Chin Bao a merciless warlord. Something's gotta give. There are several elements which make this such a good viewing experience. Start with the acting, with all the principals turning in very good performances. Jet Li isn't as self-contained as he normally is in other films. He allows himself some chances to goof off and show more personality, with some really amusing results. I really enjoyed the extended sequence in which Jun Bao loses his mind. At one point, he even thinks a wooden post is his old master. Big things were planned for Chin Siu Ho, but I guess things never did pan out for him and he never did make it as a leading action star. Still, as Jet Li's foil, Chin Bao, there is a ferociousness and a dark intensity to him that raised anticipation for that big showdown between him and Jet. The story does a terrific job, though, of laying out the friendship between the two, so it does mean something when they become estranged and then, ultimately, the most bitter of enemies. Even when Chin Bao, in his craving for power, had passed the point of redemption, I still couldn't help but feel for the guy. The showdown between Chin Siu Ho and Jet Li is worth the wait. Michelle Yeoh is spectacular and, as always, her kung fu is a match for the guys. Acting-wise, her best moment comes during her introduction as she hesitantly approaches the husband who'd abandoned her. Then comes her skirmish with her husband's new wife, in which you have got to see Michelle spin tables with her legs and feet. I am in awe of Michelle Yeoh, and she may be the most effortlessly convincing female kung fu fighter I've ever seen in cinema. Even Fennie Yuen, who isn't a martial arts practitioner, learns her moves enough that she's able to sell her fight scenes. But a stunt double does all her flips and tumbles and more hazardous stuff. Plenty of rousing fights in this one, even if, here and there, you can just... sort of... maybe... see that intrusive wire supporting this or that fighter. It's a treat seeing Jet Li and Chin Siu Ho undergo the harsh Shaolin training regimen and then apply it in their scuffles, and then see Jet Li's conversion to the more fluid, more internal tai chi style. And this being Jet Li, I could almost believe he can actually create a whirlpool of leaves just by moving his hands a certain way. I look at those old folks in the park with their tai chi routines and I shake my head. Sometimes reality punches you in the face. I also like the bit, during the fight in the Shaolin temple, in which Jet indulges in impromptu monk surfing. This Dragon Dynasty DVD release presents the movie in its Cantonese language with optional English sub-titles. The bonus stuff includes: the always informative audio commentary by the ever lurking Hong Kong Film Expert Bey Logan (probably the most fun bit of trivia he discloses is that Michelle Yeoh can drink anyone under the table; he claims that she has a hollow leg); an interview with actor Chin Siu Ho as he talks about his background and reminisces about his experiences in TAI CHI MASTER (00:20:14 minutes, with English sub-titles); a documentary exploring the art and roots of Tai Chi, shot on location in Chen Village, the birthplace of Tai Chi (00:14:55); Director Brett Ratner and Film Critic Elvis Mitchell offer their thoughts on Director Yuen Wo-ping; Director Brett Ratner and Film Critic Elvis Mitchell rave about Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh (00:14:32); and the original home video trailer.
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