Jet Li is an undercover cop living in shocking poverty as he must infiltrate the underworld to capture a tic-ridden villain who appears to wear the same wardrobe as Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. He accomplishes his mission by leaving his young son in charge of his sick mother. You really must love your job very much to leave your wife who is obviously going to die. What happens now is an entrance to a drama that gives you respite. The boy, assuming an enviable attitude, studies and saves coin after coin to give ant´s soup to his mother. Meanwhile Jet Li escapes from jail along with his contact to thereby join the robber mafia. Meanwhile, her son receives school bullying and the police, who pursue Jet Li, arrive where the dying mother who selflessly hands over her son to the complete stranger. At this point one wonders if there are more surprises left. The first thing the agent does is take the boy to Hong Kong to locate Jet Li. Problems arise and everything gets complicated. The boy ends up in the hands of the evildoers and at a certain point Jet Li must strangle his son to save his life. It is almost impossible to avoid crying. The son is dumped in a garbage bag but we all know that there is a secret technique that Li and his son practiced to prevent strangulation situations. But the bad guys anticipate and terrible things keep happening and we begin to question the level of evil of the scriptwriter. Finally the villain gets what he deserves from him in a spectacular martial arts sequence that is almost insurmountable. The ending gives room for a dramatic blow so low that it ends up breaking you. There's no point, the Chinese can be devilish when it comes to plot twists. As a dramatic film it is very good, as an action film it is spectacular.
Review of My Father is a Hero
