{"id":17117,"date":"2024-12-26T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17117"},"modified":"2024-12-25T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T19:58:16","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-china-and-america-1997-sammo-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17117","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997, Sammo Hung)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheesy, stupid movie whenever anyone is talking, but it&#8217;s also the most handsome-looking one of these movies in a while, and Jet Li is back, and his and Clubfoot&#8217;s action scenes are hot.  The action is chopped up more than usual, but it works, until it doesn&#8217;t.  Music is hit or miss &#8211; playing the OUATIC theme on Western instruments is cool but sometimes the composer plays a choir on a sampling keyboard, which is less cool. Wong loses his memory on a trip to America, joins a native tribe and hooks up with Agent Tammy Preston (in her only acting role outside of <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>).  Sammo sure is trying some things to revive the series, sometimes successfully, but goes too broad and ends up with anti-racism for babies, nowhere near the heights of his <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14983\">Millionaire&#8217;s Express<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our guys are joined by Billy (stuntman Jeff Wolfe), far right:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ouaticaa1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ouaticaa2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheesy, stupid movie whenever anyone is talking, but it&#8217;s also the most handsome-looking one of these movies in a while, and Jet Li is back, and his and Clubfoot&#8217;s action scenes are hot. The action is chopped up more than usual, but it works, until it doesn&#8217;t. Music is hit or miss &#8211; playing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,639,1766,2940,1979,105,3193],"class_list":["post-17117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-jet-li","tag-kung-fu","tag-sammo-hung","tag-tsui-hark","tag-western","tag-wong-fei-hung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17131,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17117\/revisions\/17131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}