Every time there is a martial artist that is Asian and makes it big in America everyone keeps on trying to compare them to Bruce Lee. The problem is that you cant compare him to someone like this weeks Bad Ass Mofo because he is too damned awesome to describe. Of course I am talking about Jet Li!
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Li started doing shit that would make me pass out from exhaustion when he was 8 years old and has continued since. Now, I started off watching his American films like Romeo Must Die which if you've seen recently makes you kinda cringe because he was like in his 30's and hooking up with this teenager. If I were her dad I would have wanted his ass killed too! Sure, I would have been beaten so bad that they wouldn't have been able to identify me except by fingerprinting but still. He was way too old for Aaliyah.
One day while flipping through cable I came upon another one of his movies which has one of the best fight scenes ever called Fist Of Legend. In this movie he is in love with a Japanese woman and everyone is like “No, that is bad!” and people who cant tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese people were like “What's the big deal?” In this film he punches a man in the armpit. That may seem like it wouldn't hurt but there's a shit ton of nerves there. Just like the asshole. No, not that guy at work that sneezes on your keyboard when you leave your desk. If Jet Li is in a movie and has a tiny crew cut or a shaved head with a ponytail, watch it.
Li began to appear in many more US films of his foreign ones that got a big release where a lot of times his fighting was the best part. Black Mask, Lethal Weapon 4, Cradle 2 The Grave, Unleashed, and Kiss Of The Dragon which is one of my favorite films, The Expendables, and of course The One with previous BAM Jason Statham. It got to the point where Jet Li was kicking so much ass that the only other person that could challenge him was himself. Now that's bad ass.
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