Chinese Zodiac will be Jackie Chan's last action movie

PizDoff · 5/19/2012 9:14pm

Cannes 2012: Jackie Chan says Chinese Zodiac will be his last action movie

CANNES, FRANCE — Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career.

Joel Ryan/AP

The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his latest film Chinese Zodiac will be his last action movie.

Chan, launching the movie at the Cannes Film Festival with co-stars Kwone Sang Woo, Yao Xingtong and Liao Fan, said that people don’t believe him when he says he is going to retire.

“They say ‘no, you’re still young, you can still do it,’ but I have to stop one day.”

The 58-year-old says he is bowing out with Chinese Zodiac — in which he plays a fortune hunter, travelling the world trying to track down missing astrological antiques — because it is one of the “most important” films in his career.

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I will have to see it then!

**Hiro Protagonist** · Posted On: 5/20/2012 6:53am

Isn't that a semantic issue only? - I think "action movie" in China can mean costumed epics a la Hero, and more modern takes. I remember Jet Li proclaimed something similar after Fearless, and then went on to star in a couple of Western action flicks.

**lordbd** · Posted On: 5/20/2012 7:36am

Jackie Chan is retiring, or will only continue doing "non-action" movies?

***Tranquil Suit*** · Posted On: 5/20/2012 3:56pm

The end of an era.

Looks like the 2012 apocalypse prediction was right all along.

**taijidude** · Posted On: 5/20/2012 7:56pm

Originally Posted by Hiro Protagonist

Isn't that a semantic issue only? - I think "action movie" in China can mean costumed epics a la Hero, and more modern takes. I remember Jet Li proclaimed something similar after Fearless, and then went on to star in a couple of Western action flicks.

I think Jet said it would be his last "epic" film, whatever that means.

**lordbd** · Posted On: 5/20/2012 8:17pm

I can't imagine what Jet Li meant by "epic." He's been in like ten movies since then and they've all been pretty epic in my opinion.

**Hive** · Posted On: 5/21/2012 2:32pm

Grew up seeing his crazy films. To think he is only just retiring now is amazing. What a legend.

**Permalost** · Posted On: 5/21/2012 2:43pm

Originally Posted by Hiro Protagonist

Isn't that a semantic issue only? - I think "action movie" in China can mean costumed epics a la Hero, and more modern takes. I remember Jet Li proclaimed something similar after Fearless, and then went on to star in a couple of Western action flicks.

I thought Unchained showed that fight scenes aside (there were plenty), Jet Li can actually be a very convincing actor (but that was in a movie where he had almost no dialogue).

**taijidude** · Posted On: 5/22/2012 8:06pm

Originally Posted by Permalost

I thought Unchained showed that fight scenes aside (there were plenty), Jet Li can actually be a very convincing actor (but that was in a movie where he had almost no dialogue).

You mean "Unleashed"?

He had a hell of a cast behind him, but yeah, one of my favorites of his.

Anyone see Jackie Chan's "Accidental Tourist"? I actually liked that one a lot.

**X_plosion** · Posted On: 5/23/2012 8:45am

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. That being said, Jackie Chan has had a great run in his action movie career. All the best to him in the new direction he's taking.