Because without a doubt, Jet Li has been one of the most exciting martial arts performers in the business. Age and health issues prevent him from going full-out these days, but he's not the worst actor and has actual on-screen charisma, meaning we haven't seen the last of him yet.
Therefore, once again I'm going to use twelve pictures of one of my favourite thespians to make a quiz. Click through the images, and guess which movies they're from. No competition, no prizes, just for fun, try to see how far you get without using IMDb!
And I'll post the answers next Thursday, or earlier if someone gets all of them right...
And here he is, in a publicity picture from around the time the first Expendables film was released.
This one doesn't count yet for the quiz, but all others do, so please browse through the gallery: click on the edge of the picture to get the next one, and see how many of them all you can identify!
And we begin, with quiz picture number one:
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And, finally: quiz picture number twelve!