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Certificate 12A

Cast Jet Li Jackie Chan Michael Angarano Collin Chou Yifei Liu

Directors Rob Minkoff

Screenwriters John Fusco

Running Time 104 minutes

The Forbidden Kingdom
Closer to The Forbidden City than the Forbidden Planet

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Plot
Kung fu-obsessed Jason Tripitikas (Angarano) falls off a roof while holding a Chinese fighting staff, and is somehow transported to ancient China. There, he is tasked with freeing the powerful Monkey King with the help of drunk immortal Lu Yan (Chan) and Silent Monk (Jet Li).

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