@vance_astro: Chocolate is as epic as The Protector but not as good as Ong Bak 1, Raging Phoenix has the problem of being to over the top and silly for his own good and The Kick had the problem is to be about Tea Kwon Do champions, the concept of fights were great, but there was something missing in the last 2.
Jackie Chan has changed the industry several times, many of his movies had concepts no one think about using before him, not only that the stunts were bigger that anything else and done in real locations.
Donnie Yen introduce elements to the movies from "MMA", Wing Chun is popular agains thanks to him, several of moves that werent used or were going out of style were saved by Yen, besides he take several of Bruce Lee moves and concept in his movies.
Jet Li did several great movie in a road, franchises and faced several of the best in many times.
Jaa has the problem that Adkins and Iko Uwais came out, he was the only one during a time, he was the king of the hill, until Adkins came and did several things like him, but also put moves from other martial arts, Undisputed show him using Jujitsu, Judo and others, Iko Uwais came and show everybody Silat, an style not so many knew and was never filmed right, Uwais show an special style that look like nothing other people could do, then he did The Raid that became maybe the biggest Martial Arts hit since, well Ong Bak, but it also show that Uwais had abigger potential that Jaa, Jaa biggest problem is that he cant get out of Muay Boran or mix it with other styles, he can go from style to other style, but he dont mix it.
Jaa is great, but Adkis and Uwais are in the same level, they just arent as famous as him and for the same dont get the same recognition.
Also Uwais did Man of Tai Chi with Keanu as the director, he has less movies that Jaa and call attention of many people in less time.
If you ask me, as much as i love Adkins and Jaa, Uwais is the king of this generation and he is getting bigger faster that Jaa, take the fact his first movie came out in 2009, in 4 years he got into Hollywood made movies and in 3 he did a movie that is seen like it changed the game.
Log in to comment