Synopsis
A Legend (传说, 2024) is a fantasy action-adventure with Jackie Chan that you can watch online on iFILM. Archaeology professor Fang leads his students to a glacier dig and pulls relics out of the ice that he has already seen — in a recurring dream where he himself is a general of the Han dynasty.
Dream and waking life start to braid together. In the visions a young commander guards a princess out in the desert at the edge of the empire, and a jade pendant from the past turns out to be the key to a mystery in the present. Director Stanley Tong and Jackie Chan reach back to the idea of their 2005 film The Myth: a digitally de-aged Chan carries the Han-era storyline, while he plays his real age in the modern scenes. Zhang Yixing and Gulnazar bring younger blood to the cast, and the horseback chases and desert fights are staged on the old grand scale.
This is pure Saturday-afternoon cinema — two eras, romance, jokes and big set-piece brawls of the kind people hire Tong for. Don't come looking for strict history; the film is playing at legend, not a textbook. It's for anyone missing the classic Jackie Chan adventures. Stream A Legend (2024) online on iFILM.
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