The Lost Empire
2007-01-21
The Lost Empire
2001 by Hallmark Entertainment
| Cast |
Thomas Gibson - Nick Orton
Bai Ling - Kwan Ying
Russell Wong - Monkey King
Eddie Marsan - Pigsy
Henry O - Wu
Kabir Bedi - Friar Sand
Randall Duk Kim - Shu
Ric Young - Confucius
| production credits |
| Peter MacDonald - Director David Allday - Art Director John Altman - Composer (Music Score) Chang-En Wu - Book Author Steve Harding - Producer Kate Higham - Editor Robert Halmi, Jr. - Executive Producer David Henry Hwang - Screenwriter, Producer Colin Green - Editor Iris Ng - Electrician Martin Grosup - Cinematographer Matt Johnson - Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Halmi, Sr. - Executive Producer David Connell - Cinematographer Martin Hitchcock - Production Designer Barbara Lane - Costume Designer |
The Lost Empire is a story about a Chinese scholar named Nicholas Orton (Thomas Gibson) who meets the Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin (Bai Ling), who he believes is a business client. Kuan Yin lure Nick into a mythical dimension, where the story Journey to the West is real. There, he learns that he is the only one who can save this world. His mission is to retrieve a revolutionary manuscript stolen centuries before by the evil emperor, Shu (Duk Kim), who wanted to stop time so that China could keep to the values of its past. On his journey he also meet the Monkey King (Russell Wong), Pigsy, and Friar Sand. Together they fight demons and monsters created by Shu to stop them. Nick and Kuan Yin eventually fall in love. Because Kuan Yin is a goddess, she is not allow to love a mortal, so she is force to end the relationship or else she would lose all her power. In the end, Nick retrieve the Journey to the West original script and the world is save ^__^.
I watch this movie when it aired on NBC in 2001. I am a huge Journey to the West fan. I didn't know that they are going to show this movie. I was sitting on the sofa flipping the channels and I caught a glimpse of what look like Monkey King, so I watched it. To tell you the truth, this movie sucks. The thing I don't like about this movie is the portrayal of Kuan Yin. Kuan Yin is suppose to be a pure innocent goddess. And in this movie they make her fall in love with a mortal man. That shouldn't happen under any circumstances. And the way she dresses, she looks like some sort of genie. That's not the Kuan Yin I know and worship.
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