A millennia-spanning martial arts epic, fusing folk legends from China and (of all places) Finland, "Jade Warrior" certainly has a curiosity factor going for it as it steps into the swordplay-and-wire-fu arena. The hybrid is less exotic on screen than on paper, though, unspooling in an overserious muddle that won't have broad appeal in the U.S. market, though one can imagine it appealing to Finnish audiences hungry for their own genre blockbuster. Bouncing between 2000 B.C. and the present day, the story involves three eternally reincarnated characters and the magic box they seek to control.

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