Jackie Chan Movies

(left) Jackie Chan, and (right) Jackie Chan and Kim Hee-Sun in The Myth.

Cast

• Jackie Chan – Jack/General Meng Yi
• Kim Hee-seon – Princess Ok-Soo
• Tony Leung Ka Fai – William
• Mallika Sherawat – Indian Princess (Samantha)
• Patrick Tam Yiu-Man – General Xu Gui
• Shao Bing – Nangong Yan

Story of Meng Yi

General Meng Yi is tasked to escort the Korean Princess Ok-Soo from her homeland of Korea to China, where she will become a concubine of the Qin Emperor. On their journey from Korea, she falls into constant dangers. Especially from a Korean general, who wants both to save her from being a concubine and to marry her. Each time she was rescued from the general by Meng Yi. Eventually, the princess had fallen in love with Meng Yi, and had no problem displaying her feelings to him. However, Meng Yi honors his duty to the Qin Emperor, and successfully completed his mission.

Later, the Qin Emperor becomes very ill, but succeeds in finding the immortality elixir. But the guards escorting the elixir are ambushed by rebels. Meng Yi pursues the rebels with his troops and wages a fierce battle. He doesn’t know that a conspiracy has already been hatched by the prince and prime minister, followed by a coup d’état burying the emperor alive. Although slain in battle, Meng Yi manages to hand over the elixir to his deputy, Nangong Yan. Sadly, Nangong Yan and Ok-Soo are accused as rebels by the conspirators. As punishment, they are forced to drink the immortality elixir and are then thrown into the great mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, to live imprisoned forever. The Emperor who wanted to live could not live, and Ok-Soo who wanted to die could never die.

Story of Jack

Jack is the reincarnation of Meng Yi and works as a modern day archeologist. He often dreams himself as a general, rescuing a far-away princess from danger. One day, William (Tony Leung Ka Fai), a friend of his who works for a secret foundation, asks him to find a rare material as a favor. This rare material has the ability to make a field of zero gravity. His travels take him to the floating tomb of a Dassar King in India, where he finds a sword related to his past life. Apparently, in the past life, Jack as Meng Yi fought a Dassar King over the emperor’s concubine Ok-Soo. To honor this fight, the two warriors agree to exchange their swords. The sword Jack finds floating beside the floating coffin of the Dassar King is indeed that of Meng Yi. Jack’s friend, William causes some trouble in the tomb by removing a piece of rare material from a statue. This action causes the zero gravity field inside the tomb to collapse, bringing down the floating coffin and sword. When the coffin smashes to the ground, its lid opens and a painting of Ok-Soo is revealed, attached to the lid of the coffin.

Jack is then chased by the sect members and the police. After being left by William, who flees in a helicopter, Jack jumps over a high cliff into a river. He loses consciousness and drifts along the stream until an Indian princess, Samantha (Mallika Sherawat) rescues him.

Samantha takes him to her uncle, a teacher of Indian martial arts (Kalaripayattu), who enlightens him about his past and future. During a sword match with a local warrior, Jack has a vision of the past match between Meng Yi and the Dassar King.

After saving Jack from the police, Samantha helps him escape back to his home. At home, Jack delivers the sword to China National Museum, as a National Treasure. This angers the leader of secret organization that has been funding Jack and William’s adventure in search of the anti-gravitational material.

Conclusion

After extensive research, it is determined that the anti-gravitational material is actually fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth in the time of the Qin Dynasty. Jack and William also discover the exact location of the legendary emperor’s tomb, which is hidden behind a great waterfall. This massive tomb is believed to contain the largest fragment of the meteorite, the power of which is great enough to enable the ancient Chinese to build a floating palace, intended to be the imperial palace for the Qin emperor in his afterlife.

Using state-of-the-art equipment, Jack is able to reach the location of the emperor’s tomb, where he meets Ok-Soo and Nangong Yan. The two immortals believe that Jack is Meng Yi and greet him.

At the same time, the party of intruders led by the leader of the secret organization — who, years ago, had been Jack’s professor and is now his main rival — enters the tomb. He insists that Ok-Soo relinquish the immortality pill. Yan refuses the demand by stating that nothing will be taken away from the emperor’s tomb. A large aerial fight begins, raging between the two parties.

William, trying to collect a sample of the meteorite, pulls out a piece from a statue. His actions break the balance of the zero-gravity field and the emperor’s tomb collapses in on itself.

Just as the villain approaches the fortress to retrieve the pill, Nangong grabs the leader from under the steps as the staircase collapsed. In the end, they both perish.

William, who was trapped under a statue hurled at him during the fight, begins to drown in the flooding hole of mercury. Jack promises that their friendship is forever before William drowns within the mercury, paying the ultimate price for his previous habits in graverobbing.

As he heads for the exit of the main chamber, Jack asks Ok-Soo to come with him. Ok-Soo refuses his offer since, having heard William call his true name, she now knows that Jack is not Meng Yi. She then flies back to the crumbling castle, where she holds her promise to await the return of the real Meng Yi. She does not know that Jack is actually the reincarnation of Meng Yi.

At the last moment, Jack escapes through the closing gate, forever leaving his past life. Back at his houseboat, it is revealed that Jack wrote a book out of his experience, which he dedicates to William.