Jackie Chan Marathon: A Legend (2024)

This AI generated young Jackie Chan in A Legend (2024) looks bad or what? I get it that they wanted to de-age Jackie like the way he looked in the 70s (1976-1978). The eyes, eyebrows and mouth looks okay I guess, but the nose and the jaw line is messed up.

It looks weird and washed up. Some fine details are missing. Just look up a scene fron Drunken Master 1 and say if I am wrong. 

It's some kind of uncanny valley. I still cannot see any future in AI generated movie scenes. The audience can tell there is something off.

By the way... Did you realize that Jackie Chan turned 70 this year?

If Jackie Chan wants to make movies where half of the movie is AI generated, just fucking retire, man.

He should have retired after The Foreigner to end with a high note. Or he should make dramas, thrillers with just a little bit of action.

With The Foreigner and Crime Story he proved he can do that. He proved can act. But he shouldn't do lame action scenes with bad CGI. The audienc can tell what is real and what isn't when the CGI is bad.

Jackie Chan can make movies with as less action as possible. In Shinjuku Incident he made a gangster film and his character couldn't even fight but it was a good movie. Anything but bad CGI effects. I don't watch Jackie Chan films for the CGI effects.

I am so tired of movies like Bleeding Steel, Vanguard, Kung Fu Yoga and Hidden Strike. Jackie Chan can do better movies that that and he proved that with The Foreigner.

A Legend (2024) is just a weird tech demo experiment that gone wrong and looks barely convincing. You can tell there are CGI effects and AI generated imagery. It looks as artificial as a video game cut scene from a video game. The de-aged AI generated Jackie Chan has as much life as a chopped down wood or a dead parrot.

And nobody thought this face looks wrong. It has to be a heroic scene but it is just laughable. I cannot take this seriously. AI generated movie scenes look artificial and fake. It is easy to spot that it is fake. 

You know what? They should have got Jackie Chan's son, Jaycee Chan to play the young Jackie Chan's character because he looks almost exactly as him in his 30s. But I bet they didn't want to hire him for the film because he was busted possessing weed some years ago.

I've never thought there will be a Jackie Chan movie where I have to say I wasted about 90 minutes of my time. I wrote 90 minutes, because at least the last 25 minutes is a decent entertaining Jackie Chan movie. If they managed to make the whole film like that I wouldn't complain about it at all. Then that would be as good as Chinese Zodiac or even better.

 

Recently Jackie Chan's films reached such a low point. They are getting as bad as when Jackie Chan made movies for Lo Wei in the 1970s (from 1976 to 1978). I've never thought we will ever get back to such a low point of this kind.

 

Honestly the only one I really liked from his recent movies is The Foreigner. It had good acting, an exciting story and a little bit of action which was choreographed so well. Can't he just make films like that?