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Jet Li flies into action with Sony's `Rise to Honor'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Mike Antonucci
I've been helping the video-game version of Jet Li kick people. Fling them. Smack them senseless.
Thank you, Sony.
``Rise to Honor,'' released last week for PlayStation 2, is for pop-culture fans. For fans of Hong Kong movies. For fans of Li's balletic fierceness. For fans of action and interaction.
Anyone so disposed should be pleased. The character controlled by players is the physically exquisite Li _ the computer-animated distillation of his motion-captured athleticism and fight choreography, unencumbered by a serious acting burden. This is the same kind of violence, minus blood, that Muhammad Ali brought to ...
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