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...Movies: Jet Li's Cradle...
...Movies: Jet Li's Cradle...
...million at the North American box office, and its 2001 sequel did even better: $226 million. Hollywood needed no further goading. It paired Jackie's pal Sammo Hung with Arsenio Hall for the TV drama Martial Law, which had a healthy two-year run. And it has put Jet Li, the little dynamo from Beijing, in the company of rappers: Aaliyah in the 2000 hit Romeo Must Die and now DMX in Cradle 2 the Grave...
...Often these teamings make more sense as marketing ploys. As movies, they tend to be a tired jumble of stereotyped humor and steroidal fight scenes. At least there's something tonic about the films Li has made in the West. His character is so solid, so stolid that cross-cultural jokes fizzle around him; producers have stopped trying to turn him into a smiling Jackie type. And since his mission is not to learn American ways but just to catch the damn villain, a Li movie can get down to basics: punch, kick, pummel, kill...
...Movies: Jet Li's Cradle...