Jet Li (Actor)

Reviews of Jet Li Movies

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Movies starring Jet Li have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

Hero - released in 2002 - is Jet Li's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 660 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Jet Li is The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - released in 2008 - with a score of 41% based on 884 reviews.

Actor Biography

Li Lian Jie (born April 26, 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was born in Beijing, China, and who has currently taken up Singapore citizenship.

After three years of intensive training with Wu Bin, Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. After retiring from wushu at age 17, he went on to win great acclaim in China as an actor making his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982). He went on to star in many critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably the Once Upon A Time In China series, in which he portrayed folk hero Wong Fei-hung.

Li's first role in a Hollywood film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), but his first Hollywood film leading role was in Romeo Must Die (2000). He has gone on to star in many Hollywood action films, most recently starring beside Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), and as the title character villain in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) opposite Brendan Fraser. Recently, he appeared in the 2010 film The Expendables.

Jet Li has acted in films with Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Jet Li has worked with these film directors: Wong Jing, Andrzej Bartkowiak, Sylvester Stallone and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo.