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...belief that because they are effective for us, they would be welcome everywhere else. These ideals were never--and may never be--universal. We are naive to believe that people with completely different cultures would be quick to embrace a change in government. Why haven't we learned? JUSTIN LI Ottawa...
...other words, Hollywood thinks Jet Li is the new Bruce Lee. In the Jetster's major-studio debut, Lethal Weapon 4, Mel Gibson glanced at Li's designer tunic and cracked, "Nice pajamas, Bruce." In Cradle, Li still has to fend off references to Hong Kong's seminal martial artist, who died 30 years ago. An angry dwarf threatens to have his henchmen "kick your ass, Bruce." Li's response may be directed as much to his bosses as to the dwarf: "I'm not Bruce," he says wearily...
...Cradle is Li's best Western film. In part this is because producer Joel Silver and director Andrzej Bartkowiak have fun ornamenting the action formula; the climax has four burly fights occurring simultaneously. It's also because Li doesn't have to do the heavy plot lifting. His co-star gets that task...
...Li, with his pocked skin and petite size, still commands awe with his stunts. On an apartment-house roof, he declines to take the elevator to the ground floor; he drops down the side of the building, one floor at a time, by grabbing onto successive balcony ledges. Later, he disarms an opponent with the fancy footwork he's displayed since his days as a People's Republic teen idol; it's the look-Mao-no-hands routine, in which he does a soft-shoe number on a bad guy's belly. Finally, Li has a face-off against another...
...Though not yet 40, Li has been making action films for 24 years?longer, for example, than Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the U.S., he's a reliable earner in medium-budget action movies. But as he showed last year, Li may need a Chinese director to bring out his own regal steeliness. In the Zhang Yimou hit Hero, he was more than a solemn killer. Radiating grit and elegance, he fully embodied the film's title. And nobody called him Bruce...