The movie begins more than 2,000 years ago at the end of the Warring States period in China, when the King of Qin unifies the world and seeks immortality, and the sorceress Zi Yuan casts a spell on the King and his army, sealing them into the Terracotta Warriors.
In 1946, Rick and Evelyn’s son, Alex, who is already in college, skips school to excavate the Qin King’s tomb in Ningxia. In 1947, Rick and Evelyn are invited to send the “Eye of Shangri-La,” a legendary gemstone that can bring about immortality, to Shanghai, where a warlord and a museum curator collude to awaken the Qin King, the Emperor of China, and a fierce battle is waged. However, the warlord and the museum director collude to awaken the Dragon King, triggering a fierce battle that ends with the family successfully killing the King.
The movie’s abandonment of Egyptian culture, which had been followed in the first two episodes, in favor of a story about ancient China caused great controversy, as she was not very happy with the script, Rachel Weisz said she would not continue to play the role of Evelyn, and then Maria Bello took her place, and the movie was released with the worst word-of-mouth of the trilogy.
2008 / USA Germany / Action Thriller Fantasy Adventure / Rob Cohen / Brendan Fischer Jet Li
Plot Synopsis:
1947, Ningxia, China.
The tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the first emperor of China 2,000 years ago, is unearthed here.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the great explorer O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) are invited to send the “Eye of Shangri-La”, a gemstone that is said to bring immortality, to China as a symbol of the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.
Unexpectedly, a Kuomintang officer (Wong Chau-sang) colludes with the museum curator and snatches the Eye of Shangri-La on the spot, which then awakens the Dragon Emperor (Jet Li), an evil force from 2,000 years ago, who can not only use the power of the Five Elements to commit violence, but also transforms into all kinds of monsters and harms the world’s living beings.
The O’Connell family fights against the Dragon Emperor and his huge army of terracotta warriors, and the thousand-year-old Virgin Ziyuan (Michelle Yeoh) and her daughter Linna (Rosamund Leung) also join the sacred team to destroy the Dragon Emperor and return peace to the world.
