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This is an asian high-fantasy movie rather than a martial arts flick. So adrenaline junkies looking to get their fix on this are going to be disappointed.

This does have a relatively good premise and story. The characters are well-thought out and enjoyable. Unfortunately the English text translation is so extremely bad it is sometimes difficult to follow the story. Typical confusion between he / she / it, extreme mistranslation (in one spot the English is actually written out on-screen and the translation renders it otherwise).

But the romantic sub-plot is quite good, and it has a very Asian ending (avoiding spoilers). It does get to a point at near the end where the on-screen CGI is so over the top it feels more like a Transformers movie than fitting in with the rest of the film. That along with the very bad translating gives this a mere 5-star "mediocre" rating from me.

Those who rated this 1 star... seriously, you're putting this equal to the worst movies ever made? If you can't write better reviews than that don't bother. I'm not sure it warrants the 8 stars some give it, but given a chance and tolerating the butchered translations, it's a mildly interesting 2 hours.

I really liked the mind-altering pixie character. Cute as a button and used well throughout the film, both as plot device and emotional prodding.

Jackie Chan is a poor scribe who can't sell copies of his books for five cents each. He's also a great and mystical demon hunter armed with the magical Yin-Yang pen, which lets him fight and trap the bad demons and make the good ones serve him. Now he's after mirror demon Elaine Zhong. His newer apprentice, Ethan Juan, won't let him exile her into his book because.... well, that's the story, isn't it.

And a pretty well-told story it is, with some fine sequences of on-screen magic. There's lots of movie flying and, for fans of Jackie Chan, a nice humorous fight sequence about two-thirds of the way through. It's not as extreme and hilarious as the sort he ran through in the mid- and late 1990s, but, hey, he's older than I am, and it's nice to watch him being funny without anyone breaking any bones in the out-take reel.

First off, The Knight Of Shadows is not your typical Jackie Chan, kung fu stunt filled action film! In fact, this is Jackie Chan enjoying himself, dangling on wires and dodging CGI monsters and demons - even throwing in a bit of singing between comedy routines just for fun...

I liked this little flick. While I surely missed the master in action, I knew what to expect upon viewing so wasn't disappointed by the end of it. Think A Chinese Ghost Story meets Monster Hunt and you'll be on the right track!

The Knight Of Shadows is a big, colourful, character filled fantasy that plays like a tamer version of Takeshi Miike's Great Yokai War but with a much lighter tone.

There is some wire-fu and swordplay action of course, but for the most of it Jackie flies around writing spells with his magic brush and scaring kids.

It's great to see Jackie in something so different also. It's a genre you never see him venture into, and makes a change from the usual cop role and modern day setting... It would be nice to see hime return to that although with a lot more kung fu fighting!!

The Knight Of Shadows will never go down as a classic, but it does entertain somewhat and passes the time positively.

This movie is a half traditional Chinese stories and half video game (CGI that sometimes looks great and sometimes doesn't). It's sort of traditional with lots of spiritual stuff. The production value is pretty high in some set-pieces, and the art direction in general is great. There are also animated cutscenes that are worth the watch (in a style similar to Yoshitaka Amano's art from Final Fantasy).

Sadly, the movie is too silly at times, or too slow and boring in it's development for my taste. It has a very simplistic plot, but I imagine this would have been worth it if done correctly, which is a shame. Some minor parts I really enjoyed (almost everything with the "demon ladies"). A very poor execution drags it down to the floor.

As a Jackie Chan movie it has several action scenes.. that aren't memorable. He isn't as nimble or fun to watch anymore. Overuse of CGI (and I can't stress that enough) and noticeable cables being used in the choreography take you out of it. Also.. farts.

All in all, I'll remember the short animated sequence, the lovely tragedy in it, and forget the rest.

I watch this because of Jackie Chan. But even with him I can sit through this lousy film. Unwatchable plot, what was the director thinking? Thank you for destroying my childhood idol with your so call amateur film. This is not a career for you.

I really cannot see any positive aspect of this fantasy movie. The dialog is too cliche and shallow, the plot is linear and cheesy, and the whole story is boring. You can get better fantasy movie like this without the big name of Jacky Chan.

This is in the magical realm of Jackie-land. Cgi could be better, same for the dialogues. But all in all a funny and good Jacky/love-story. Without the over the top(as in great) fightscenes.

Jackie Chan is always funny, but the story of this whole story are boring.

But the animation is awesome anyway..

This movie is still good to watch, the comedy parts is quite funny, though nothing special with the story. At the beginning the story seems to be an interesting story, but getting to the end the movie the story solely focus on the mystical snake and the women he love. The mystical snake and the women finally exchange position, she refused to exchange position and she want him to be a good man.

What kind of pretentiousness causes someone to use only one word as their professional/public name? Madonna and Prince come to mind as early adopters of this sort of trend. At least they had the talent to match the hubris. Vash? Hardly.

Has anyone even seen his previous film Bugs? Somehow that film was a step upward to a Jackie Chan FX blowout. Maybe the mysterious Vash comes from a lot of family money and all of this is just vanity?

No, as someone else here said, it's not Chan's worst (there's a lot to choose from there!), but it's not even mildly watchable. Ridiculous, boring, silly and immeasurably bad.

If young Jackie saw this film, he'd beat up old Jackie on the spot. Meanwhile, Michelle Yeoh is in an Oscar winning film! Jackie needs a new agent.

Avoid this at all costs and return to watching Operation Condor for the 50th time.

This really is an underrated movie. If it were in English it would likely have a 6 to 7 rating I'm certain. Classic Chan with a variant on some Classic Chinese literature, "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio". It is similar to some of the modern versions of "Journey to the West".

Jackie Chan is doing at least 5 movies every year the last 10 years, and unfortunately quantity is over quality in most of them, especially when he is doing favours to new young actors to support them, but this one is highy underrated and I think it is because of wrong expectations. This is a fantasy-ghost-movie for family and not an action movie full of fights or mafia or policestories. So please vote it for what it is, and it is a nice fantasymovie, well acted, funny, with some romance and chinese literature. The ending a bit to long and for me personally to much computer graphic, but a good movie that you can watch with kids and family. Liked it!

I been a Jackie Chan fans since young. And this is the most lousy movie I have ever seen. Dragging storyline, lousy CGI, lame jokes . Keep cruching my fist, feel like puching sandbags.feel now swearing now. No one laugh in the theatre, some just keep observing their watch when it's time to end. Most funny part is in the end, they use the cgi technology that I last time play ff8 in PS1 era. Hope Jackie Chan will choose a better script and director next time.,Give my money back.

I have never left a review before but this movie is so incredibly horrible that I must. It is beyond belief how awful it is and it so bad that I can't believe it got released. The cgi is terrible, the plot is confused and messy, the acting is laughable. It is a rip-off of other movies, namely "The Chinese Ghost Story/Qian nu you hun", except it's done so badly, it's an insult. It's not even funnily bad, it's just pathetic and boring and nonsensical. Can't believe it's a Jackie Chan movie. I went with my parents who are big fans of his movies and we all left the movie wanting to puke. People left halfway, we should have followed but we thought this is Jackie Chan - bah! So what! How can nobody tell Jackie that the movie sucks big time? Is he only surrounded by yes-men and people who feed him with lies? Whatever it is, it is a HUGE BLACK MARK on his movie career.

WTF was Jackie Chan thinking when they were making this trash ????? His Yen was wrapped so tight around his yang his eyeball were bulging. I've seen stupid Jackie Chan movies. before, this one is by far and wide, the dumbest piece of garbage he could have come up with. Let me save you a lot of time if you read reviews before watching movies, you'd be better entertained watch your dog chase his own tail. THIS REALLY SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The most lousy Jackie Chan movie, boring story, lousy CGI. Make me sleeping through out from starting, leave seeing the show half way.

If you're expecting a typical action movie like Marvel this isn't. The movie is based on the chinese culture, about the demons of their mithology. Could be better if the CGI was more developed but the kids will enjoy.

This movie is definitely not one of Jackie Chan's better movies. The story line is good but many of the characters are just a bit too childish. The cgi is often mediocre. Despite its shortcomings the movie is still entertaining and is good family fun.

If you are a fan of Jackie Chan you won't need me to tell you if you should watch this or not. His charme is enough to do the job. And it is obvious still how good he is - not just in his stunt work, but also in his comedic timing and acting. Something I remember not fully appreciating as much many years (decades) ago.

But he's not alone here and his stunt work is not the main attraction ... well it is not supposed to be. I can see how some may feel it is in the end. A lot of wirework and a lot of CGI involved in this. Oh and quite a few masks can be seen in the outtakes/behind the scenes footage at the end of the movie - which is played during the credits and I can only recommend so much! Really worth seeing! Might also sway you to give this an extra point in your rating (not saying if that was the case with me too ...)

Hopefully, Jackie did this for the money, because, for me, a big disappointment. There was a glimmer of his former self in the club fight scene, using chairs to defend himself, but otherwise he just looked old (yes, his character was old, but where were the moves?) 2 years since "The Foreigner" and "Kung Fu Yoga"... Please, Jackie, say it ain't so...

Storyline OK, liked Handsie, hated Pixie... some attractive females...

If you do not know this type of movie and expect to see a Chan movie or a typical fantasy movie, then move on. This is a nice movie of it's kind, not for your every day viewer. Nothing unexpected in storyline, but a classical love story.

Dec 2022

Jackie Chan still going strong and this litttle Chinese film is pretty decent.

Great title "Knight of Shadows" and he plays a sort of monster hunter and is further helped by some monsters. It plays very similar to that other recent Chinese film "monster hunter" i think it was called.

Some decent effects and some comedy but ultimately becomes a love story.

Its certainly worth a watch or 2 but if you are expecting the kind of films Jackie was making in the 80s then you will be disappointed.

Its fun and i liked it a lot more than some of Jackies other recent films such as Forbidden Kingdom.

Check it out 7ish out of 10.

Just want to ask where the "detective"? Empty has the name of detective, do not take a side with crack a case film completely, under the guise of detective but the film does not have the appearance of detective, directly call a female ghost is not over bai, with pu songling what relationship?

The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang (2019) is a Jackie Chan demon picture that I recently watched on Prime. The storyline follows a demon hunter, and his little monster friends, who capture bad demons that come to Earth and offset the balance between good and evil. As he takes on a new young apprentice, an evil like no other threatens to end the human existence and rule the world. Can the demon hunter and his apprentice stop it?

This movie is directed by Vash (Sniper: Vengeance) and stars Jackie Chan (Rush Hour), Elane Zhong (August Never Ends), Ethan Juan (The Assassin), Peng Lin (Dragon Blade) and Po-Hung Lin (Transformers: Age of Extinction).

This movie had so much potential in a Percy Jackson/Hellboy kind of way. The CGI and little monsters were awesome and Jackie Chan was a perfect demon hunter. He was his usual funny mixed with charming character that was also a mentor and fatherly. Unfortunately, this relied too much on CGI and it was way overdone. The setup and first half of the movie was actually pretty good in establishing the universe, characters and circumstances. The conclusion felt like a video game and over the top to the point Chan looked like a cartoon in many scenes.

Overall, this had the potential to be a worthwhile addition to the fantasy genre but falls short of its potential due to overuse of CGI. I would score this a 3.5/10 and recommend skipping it.

Not sure what some of the reviewers expected. This is a kids film, and it is one made from a collection of Chinese folklore - kind of like Hansel & Gretel. Start with that precept, understand that folklore/fairy tales have a very specific set of precepts and there won't be any surprises.

It's fun. It's entertaining. It's a kid's story.