Jet Li of The Expendables

The Expendables promises to be a kick ass movie as it stars some of the biggest names in the action flicks of the past, where they were huge explosions, a lot of hand to hand combat, and the heroes look like they could smash your face with just one blow. It pays homage to that long-forgotten era after high tech CGI effects took over that genre.

The all star cast includes Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Randy Couture, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Terry Crews, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. But of all the action heroes seen on the film, compared to the others, Jet Li has the smallest frame. But he is a skilled martial artist. He retired after he won several gold and silver medals for the Beijing Wushu Team to pursue a career in acting. His debut movie was the Shaolin Temple in 1982. The movie was successful that two sequels followed. He scored another hit with the Once Upon a Time in China series, that he starred in four out of the six films in the franchise as Chinese folk hero Wong Fei Hung. He went to Hollywood and played his first villain role in Lethal Weapon 4 opposite Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. His first starring film was the 2000 hit Romeo Must Die with the late Aaliyah. He then appeared in movies like The One and Kiss of the Dragon. In 2002, he was cast in the lead role of Zhang Yimou’s epic movie Hero, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars. Jet Li and another martial arts legend Jackie Chan appeared for the first in the film The Forbidden Kingdom and proved to become a hit. He was next seen as the main villain in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

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