| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

No matter how you slice it, Fearless is Li in his prime.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 30, 2006

I think this is a terrific film.

Full Review | Sep 25, 2006

Every so often there is a hand-to-hand fight scene to cut the boredom -- the best is set atop a precipitously high wooden tower in a village square -- but even these don't set themselves apart from anything we've seen before.

| Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2006

It takes time for the film to bounce back to the heights of its opening scene, but about midway it does.

| Original Score: B | Sep 23, 2006

Jet Li movies are still pretty cool, but they appear to be heading in an unfortunate direction.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2006

It boils down to a simple but elegantly told morality tale with beautiful sets and scenery and plenty of bracing action.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

A movie that condemns the tendency of global culture to intrude everywhere while embracing the very things that kick multiplex doors down around the world.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2006

Though always charismatic, Li's most expressive when he lets fists fly.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 22, 2006

A lavish biopic that gives Li one of his juiciest roles but is relatively light on the action his fans have come to expect.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2006

In Ronny Yu's sweeping film based on the life of wu shu master Huo Yuanjia, the retiring action star manages to tug a few heartstrings while breaking plenty of bones.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

The action scenes are disappointingly conventional, constrained for the most part to one-on-one ring matches with inferior opponents.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2006

Too often it seems to be just another action fantasy that teaches pacifism while indulging in brutality.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2006

Perhaps predictably, the final work in Li's on-screen martial-arts career won't be the film to remember him by.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2006

The 43-year-old actor claims that this will be his last martial arts epic. That's too bad when movies like this and 2002's Hero find him just hitting his stride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

A subplot involving his attachment to a blind village girl doesn't go anywhere, nor is it necessary; the real love affair here is Li's passion for the sport.

| Sep 22, 2006

While showing his 43 years, Li is still capable of ripping his way through an ornate restaurant or clearing out 15 challengers in as many seconds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

It's an intoxicating blend of spiritualism and action, an invigorating movie that makes you want to stand up and cheer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

Even though Fearless is laced with stunning fight sequences, none of them have lingered in my memory as vividly as Li's face has: His body may begin the story told in Fearless, but his face completes it.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2006

The protagonist's message rings true and its battle sequences prove gripping, but Jet Li's Fearless is both slightly ham-fisted in its efforts to have its individual and political narratives mirror one another.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2006