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Director:
Writers:
Hai-shu Li (writer)
Stanley Tong (writer)
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Release Date:
23 September 2005 (Hong Kong) more
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4 nominations more
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Cast

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Jackie Chan ... General Meng Yi / Dr Jack Chan
Hee-seon Kim ... Ok-soo
Tony Leung Ka Fai ... William

Mallika Sherawat ... Samantha
Ken Lo ... Dragon
Rongguang Yu ... Zhao Kuang
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ram Gopal Bajaj ... The Guru
Min-su Choi ... General Choi (as Choi Min Soo)

Jason Chong ... Jack / General Meng-Yi (English Revoice)
Hayama Go ... Tiger
Kumman Gopakumar ... Dasar Policeman
Leon Head ... Dr. Smith
Sasidharan Nair Sajith Kumar ... Dasar Guard A
Biju Kumman ... Dasar Policeman
Sunil Kumar Kumman ... Dasar Guard B
Maggie Lau ... Maggie
Jing-kei Liang ... Governess (as Liang Jingke)
Xuetong Li ... Curator
Karimbil Nidheesh ... Dasar Policeman
Sudhanshu Pandey
Bing Shao ... Nangong Yan
Qiao Shun ... Eunuch
Zhou Sun ... Mr. Koo
Patrick Tam ... General Xu Gui
Ken Wong ... Rebel General Meng Jie
Wei Xing Yao ... General Shen
Tak Yuen ... Dasar Monk (as Richard Hung)
Jianzhong Zhang ... Official
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Also Known As:
Shen hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
The Myth (International: English title)
Time Breaker (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
Titanium Rain (Hong Kong: English title) (working title)
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Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality. (edited version; previously rated R for some violence)
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Philippines:117 min | Hong Kong:122 min | Canada:118 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Due to Mallika Sherawat's racy image in Bollywood, rumors circulated that she landed the role over many other Indian actresses (Aishwarya Rai, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra) because she was willing to do full frontal nudity in this film. When these rumors were spread, Stanley Tong and Jackie Chan held a special press conference in India to say that they picked Mallika over many others because of her great charm and genuine acting talent, and that the film didn't even have a kissing scene, let alone full frontal nudity. more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While playing with the elephant "Lakshmi", apparently a female elephant, Mallika Sherawat says to it "Good boy, Good boy". more
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12 out of 17 people found the following review useful.
Entertaining JC in new role, 25 September 2005
7/10
Author: Knight Palladin

Saw the movie today. Nice authenticity with the arms, armor and tactics of the Qin Dynasty (comtemprary of Republican Rome)and attention to detail. And a very beautiful Korean princess who looked every inch the role. Overall entertaining movie with signature JC fight scenes in the modern parts of the story. This new Indiana Jones type role for JC is certainly refreshing. The cop role is getting stale. The ending is also new for a JC movie, and perhaps indicates a certain coming of age - no more everyone happy, bad guys in jail, good guys get rewarded template anymore. The use of multiple languages by native speakers corresponding to authentic locations is refreshing (Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese, English, Hindi)- no more stilted "other" languages.

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