[Flames]
[sirens]
[donging]
- Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
My name is Smith, welcome to flatland.
When I first met the general his name was Khan,
mine, St. Michael.
The war for the soul of mankindhas raged
for three thousand years, the battleground today,
is Shanghai.
I have forced three young Americans to work for me,
JT, a gang banger, Mr. Michel, a failed mob lawyer,
and Amy Lee, beautiful young woman,
they will ultimately discover the history,
when present and past collide,
and where one misstep on eitherside
of the fourth dimension is fatal.
In the world of flatland, where nothing is as it appears
to be, my name is Smith, welcome to flatland.
- Eight thousand years of history,
all I'm saying, there's aconcept I just don't understand.
Ever really wonder about the great sweep of time?
- No.
- Ah, I didn't think so.
Now.
I hate the whole haggling thing,
you go high, I go low, just tell me what I want to know
while you still got a chance.
- An American.
- Name.
- He never said
[moaning]
- Should of asked.
- He'll be back.
- So will I.
[modern rock music]
[chanting]
- It took a long time.
But I found you.
Shang Chi, you are now the Dragon King.
[modern music]
- You know every time I see thisplace,
it reminds me of home.
You ever get homesick?
- From what, for Chicago?
- Hmm hmm. Big shoulders and big buildings.
- Some bad memories.
What about you.
- Central park, Rockefeller center, Yankee Stadium?
Why should I get homesick.
No, all I need is a beautiful woman
like you to share it with.
- I bet you do.
- Clapped restaurants, I know every hot spot there is.
Even some that aren't on the map.
- Mitchel
- I know, I know you love me very much
but you have to go meet friendsso you'll catch me later.
It's okay, sometimes it's worth waiting for.
- Thanks for the ride.
[modern music]
[piano music]
Karen
- Amy Lee how you doin' girl?
- Fine, yourself?
- Oh I'm beet, jet lagged, stressed out,
but otherwise ready to party like there's no tomorrow.
- Well I can help you with thatlast part.
- Well let's do it but first I'mstarving,
so I want to get a bite to eat,
then I want check out, oh what's going on in your life,
you know, like the men, the money, the sex,
mostly the sex, you know.
[laughs ]
[futuristic music]
- Excuse me, oh.
Hey sweetie, my name is D Walker, and you are?
Hugh. Okay.
I uh, sold some merchandise here the other day,
the real stuff, almost as pretty as you are.
11th century gold medallions.
If you take a look in your book
[futuristic music]
- Now what I'm offering you Mr.Walker,
is literally a license to steal.
- Oh, is that right.
How can I get my hands on this license.
- Bring 'em to me.
The warrior who wore this.
- I knew there was some catch.
Alright come on, do me and you, right, we run the same
kind of business, yeah?
- I doubt it.
- I won't tell, I won't tell anybody,
but why this one, what makes them so special?
- It's a friend of mine.
[laughs]
- A friend of yours. It's prettyfunny.
What's it worth?
- A million dollars, half now, half when I see my friend.
- Pretty smooth man.
Got a lot of slick on you.
- Do we have a deal?
- You know what I think?
I think your nuts, but yeah we got a deal,
we definitely have a deal.
- Good.
Have a nice day.
[futuristic spinning sounds]
[horse]
[scream]
- So what king,
- Dragon, I don't mean puff themagic one.
- And this guy's dangerous?
- That's an understatement.
- So what's his deal?
- He's the fourth dragon king.
- What does that mean?
- It means everything.
- Most of the time I love it when you're obtuse,
but it would be nice, if every once in a while,
you would give me a few scraps of specific information.
- He's high voltage beef with invincible karma.
- Invincible, nothing's invincible.
- Yeah, right.
- He really his.
- Khans had four of them through the centuries,
they're his four horsemen of the apocalypse,
and when they get rolling it's sayonara check mate match
game set for Mr. Khan.
On the left, flesh and blood,
on the right dead meat.
- Which is he now?
- I thought he was Muenster.
- Can't you make him stay that way?
- Not of Khan finds him first.
- Maybe he won't.
- I've got all these movies in here, and
I don't want to see them again.
He stars in most of them.
- You're eyes have seen too much.
Will he have a target?
- A very beautiful one.
[drumming]
- Now this is the Shanghai I know,
tell me if you see any guys withum,
long arms and big feet if you know what I mean.
- You have not changed.
- Well, a girl can dream right?
[dance music]
- JT I'd like you to meet a friend of mine.
Karen this is JT
- Nice to meet you.
- Amy always has such beautifulfriends.
- What are you doing for the rest of my life.
- He's gothic.
- No joke.
Long arms big feet.
- JT
- Dan, you never heard of me
- Aw what about James Brown?
[singing]
- Well security just about letting anybody up in here.
Eddy Murphy, James Brown, is that D. Walker.
- JT Darling.
- What's up man?
- JT how you feeling?
- How you doing?
- Good good good.
Man I heard you were dead?
- Oh well you know, fools will talk, you know I'm sayin'
- Yeah I understand.
- Last time I saw you, you werebald.
- You frontin' man, hey check it out let me introduce you
I'm all alone.
[drumming]
[club music]
- What the hell are you doing here in Shanghai?
- Hey man, you know it's business man, you know,
same old same old, what about you man,
you checking out some of these hunnies from back home?
- Oh no, that's behind me now.
- What's up man, no more big pimping, come on man
- You know actually I heard you were diving
for buried treasure in the bahamas
- Man I ain't been wet in like ayear man,
they kicked me up to management.
I got my own salvage company now.
- You look like something, I'm figuring maybe a pirate,
not necessarily a suit though.
- Yo man, this is the new me man,
you got to check me out.
[club music]
- Well check it man, we got a lot to catch up on
let's kick back and relax.
- Well actually I was getting ready to bounce back
to my spot man, I'm partied out.
Just go with me.
- Whatever's cool man, I'll follow you out.
[club music]
- Whoever invented the martini should get a Nobel prize.
- Hold that thought, don't touchmine,
I'll be right back.
[club music]
[high pitched sounds]
[glass shatters]
[club music]
- Amy.
Amy, what's wrong.
- I have to leave.
- No problem.
- No, you don't have to.
- It's okay I don't mind, come on, let's go.
Feeling better?
- Yeah.
- This place is beautiful.
- And full of memories.
- Good or bad?
- Skip that question.
- You know, if you have anythingyou want
to talk to me about, that's what friends are for.
And if there's secrets, my lips are sealed.
- It's nothing
- Sure?
Okay.
- Do you listen to yourself man?
'Cuz I listen to you.
But you gotta tell me the truthman.
- Look I swear man.
- Okay six hundred thousand.
What's a hundred thousand hoursright.
It's not about the money.
- Well then what.
- It's about it being illegal.
If they catch your ass they gonna
throw you straight in jail.
- Man, most things worth doing cross the law.
- You forget what we come from?
- Of course I don't, that's why I'm reminding you.
- Look man, the guy said it's cool.
He said everything is legal.
I mean we got forms, we got permits, we got all that.
This is the chance to make serious cash bro.
Change your life forever.
- Let's review that.
Tomb raider, grave robbing, I don't even want to think
about what kind of karmic kickbacks gonna be
in my life 'cuz of that man.
- Listen to you man.
Karmic kickback, aw you know what I forgot man,
you livin' like a monk and everything now.
You all superstitious.
It goes so far beyond that it'snot funny.
- And I used to be scared scared of snakes.
- Seriously Dies, this not aboutthat.
- Well then what is it man.
- I mean I know it can't be 'cuz this is against the law.
Right?
That's it.
You're scared.
You lost your edge man.
- Actually I didn't.
And I had it way before you even dreamed of.
- Yeah but gotta keep the edge
sharp or the knife goes dull.
You taught me that.
Man, we used to tear it up back in the day.
- Back in the day ain't now.
- I know.
It's cool.
Do you need the money?
Then help me out for another reason,
that night in Liberty City, you remember that?
I lied to the cops.
I got locked up for 14 months in a Tallahassee prison,
and you walked man.
- What's that got to do with this?
- Nothing.
You don't think you owe me one.
I think you do.
- When?
- I do my best work in the morning.
- Why Michel?
- He doesn't know about his powers yet, he's expendable.
- That's pretty cold.
- It's a reality.
Nothing warm about it, where ishe?
- He's in the war room.
- War room, well that reminds me of the old days.
Not really the old days, youknow, the more recent old days.
- As in the pentagon.
- Yeah right.
- Pentagon, the white house, and Downey Street,
the kremlin, a war room here, a war room there,
everywhere a war room.
A lot of war rooms.
- Yes, because men like fights.
- Don't kid yourself, women didn't do so bad you know?
- John Dark now she cleaned somecloths
and Queen Victoria, wow, huh.
- I heard that's not all she cleaned.
- If there was only more time in this world.
- Ah.
- We have a problem.
- Morning, direct straight to the point,
that's what I like about you.
- I don't care what you like about me.
- Like I said.
- I want you to do me a favor.
- What, you don't care what I think,
but you want me to do you a favor?
- That's correct.
I want you to watch Amy 24 7.
- I like it.
- Done deal.
- If you had any brains you'd ask me why.
- If I had any brains, I wouldn't be here.
- Oh that's good.
That's two in a row.
- So why the favor.
- Because of somebody I have tofind.
I don't know whether he's here,
I don't know what name he'll beusing.
I don't even know what he lookslike.
- That's good, it's a lot to gowith.
It should be easy.
- It won't be.
- If you screw up, she'll be dead.
And if that happens you'll wishyou were.
- Who is this guy.
- Let's just say it's somebody from her past who want's
to hurt her real bad.
- And you want me to stop him.
- That would be asking way too much.
I want you to connect yourself to her like
an umbilical cord.
If you hear anything, see anything, smell anything
I want to know.
- Yeah.
Nice talking to you.
We really must have these intimate sessions more often.
Is he this warm and polite to you too?
- Always.
Mitchel, this is serious.
- Yeah, no kidding.
[chanting]
- Man, how did you find this place?
- I met an old Chinese guy namedCho,
he took me out here.
- What did he call it?
- I don't know what they call it,
but I call it Rocky Road, without the marshmallows.
- Man, do you know where we're going?
- Yeah, in there.
- That means you don't have a clue.
- You sure brought Mr. Surewooders huh?
- No man, she was here all the time.
What the hell is he, a hermit?
He's weird.
[ethereal music]
- Hey man, what the hell is thatsound?
- I think it was the wind,
they say it blows down from thesurface
that's how they found this place.
- Man, this looks like a tomb.
A tomb or a cave.
- It's both.
[eerie music]
- You coming?
- Blah!
- What's happening!
[laughing]
What's wrong with you man.
Idiot.
- Come on man we're almost there.
- It's not funny.
- Hey man nothing come to me inhere.
- What are those man?
- Man, the old guy, told me that these things
are clay replicas from some dude's army,
from like a thousand years ago.
And this one is worth a milliondollars.
- You said it was worth, six hundred thousand.
- But you also said money's notimportant,
just help me out.
- Hey man, that's the old man,
yo we got to get him out of hereman.
- We don't have to do anything.
- What?
- Man look, he's dead.
And we're in a tomb, can you think of a better place
for him to be dead?
Let's just get what we came for and get out of here.
[chanting music]
[metallic chiming]
[chanting music]
- He's here.
- Hey JT
Well hello, how you doing?
Okay we're men, we don't talk.
It's cool.
So I want to ask you what's on your mind.
- Good.
- You seen Amy today?
- I saw her last night at Argby's.
- How was she?
Acting funny?
Anything out of the ordinary?
- If you call dancing acting funny.
- Okay, well Smith seems tothink someone's looking for her.
- She was with a friend of hers, Karen something.
- Good enough.
You've been a real help.
[car engine]
- Amazing don't you think?
Over a thousand years old.
You've been here before the great fall.
- Yeah man it's amazing if you're into fat statues.
- I take it you don't appreciatehistory.
- What I appreciate is my money.
- Nothing wrong with that.
- Cool, 'cuz now that you got your fat toy soldier man,
you need to pay me my dough.
- Just one more thing.
- Why does it have to be one more thing
when I want my money?
- Do you know the story of Genghis Khan?
- Yeah, you know, I never met him.
- Well when he died, his burial place was a secret.
And all the men around him werekilled.
So that that secret would be kept.
Does anyone else know about this?
- Oh yeah right, yeah I called CNN.
What do you think I'm amateur?
You think this is my first time?
- I just got to be sure.
- Right, well why don't you justmake sure
that I get my money.
I think we can both appreciate that.
- Chow Men will take care of you.
- Man, okay cool.
Good luck with the fat man, huh.
[chanting music]
[string music]
- Check this out Chow Man,
I mean now that business is almost done,
maybe you and me can work out a little business
of our own.
I mean now here I am inShanghai with a million dollars
burning a hole in my pocket,
and nobody to help me spend it.
Hey, you speak English or what?
Uh ha, I believe you do.
[techno music]
Aww!
Baby likes it rough.
[dramatic music]
Okay baby, let's have some fun.
[electronic music]
[dramatic music]
[electronic music]
- Welcome back.
- Amy, well there she is.
Amy?
What's the matter?
What is it?
- Come here, tell me what happened.
- I have to talk to Smith. .
- Well he calls himself Smith now.
- Not very creative.
Then again he never was.
Remember Jerusalem?
Was it, making all that Christian madness.
He almost killed me.
These warriors they saved me.
Now they're here.
Looking for me.
- Let me take a look around,
You stay here okay?
In this room.
Everything's going to be fine, Ipromise.
- I know you love her Yun Shi,
but she dances close to the flame,
she likes the heat, she can't help herself.
Eternal woman.
In every garden of Eden, the first to the last,
she'll take your food every time.
[electronic music]
- Shaw!
[electronic music]
- I'll giver her to you any way you want, kill the others.
And we destroy Smith.
- JD man, come on, alright you know that if you get this,
Smith was right, there is something very wrong out here.
I just found Amy shakinglooking like she's seen a ghost.
And I think it'd be a very good idea if
you came out here.
I know you don't care about me,
which is cool man,
but just think about Amy
[motorcycle engine]
Look kid, it's just you and me now,
why don't you tell me what's going on?
- Believe me, you wouldn't understand.
- Listen, drugs, alcohol, crankymothers,
pissed off fathers, affairs with married men,
jealous boyfriends, honey, I'm an expert in all fields.
- It's nothing like that.
- Okay.
What is it then?
- There's something I have to do.
- Terrific but your very cute friend Mitchel
told us to wait right here.
- Well this can't wait.
- I didn't realize anyone was allowed in these
Alright, let's do this.
[techno music]
Ah!
- Ah, ah, there's something weird about
the guy who did this man.
- Yeah.
- He's not moving.
I would see him, wherever he just was.
- Save it for when we get to someplace safe.
Come on.
- Who is she?
A friend she has nothing to do with this,
you never know.
I've known her since I was six years old.
- You've known the Dragon King for over a thousand years
- Well why has he come back?
- Smith has a theory.
- Smith always has a theory.
- He thinks Khan somehow found the Dragon King.
- He's right.
I saw him.
But how?
- Good question, no answer.
- After all this time.
- There is no time in a Flatland,
A millennium is a heartbeat.
- And there are more angles on the tip of a needle
than you can count with a million computers
in a million years.
- You think Smith actually knows about this stuff?
Or is he just making it up?
- Both.
- He thinks Khan will send him after you.
And that will lead them to Smith.
- It would be so nice, just once,
to forget all about Smith and Khan, and Flatland
and all the Dragon Kings.
[party music]
- You have about six of these bad boys you'll forget
all about the clown.
- I just wish my ribs would forget.
- You'll be fine.
Time to go.
[train whistle]
- It was a screw up.
It can happen, it's like Bobby Kennedy
at the Bay of Pigs.
The Air Force didn't provide cover,
they didn't even show up,
end result there's no invasion.
Castro for another 30 years and no Cuban cigars.
It's a screw up, it happens allthe time.
Usually at the wrong time.
You screwed up.
- I know.
Big problem, I never should of listened to Walker.
Just when I saw that dude alive, I couldn't believe it.
- There's one thing that you must believe.
He's here to kill you.
Khan brought him.
- How do I fight him?
- You can't defeat him while he wears the medallion.
It renders him invincible.
- What the hell do I do then?
- You already the cause of the problem.
Make yourself the cause of the solution.
- Find an answer.
- Where?
- You finish it, from where it started.
Wherever you saw him the first time.
By the way, your friend Mr. Walker won't be coming back.
[techno music]
[swishing]
[groaning]
[chanting music]
[explosion]
[drumming music]
[club music]
- It's good to see that your smiling again.
Are you ever going to tell me what happened?
- Maybe next time.
- Next time, that could be a year from now.
And anyway, never did bother telling me
all about your sex life.
- I'm not going to.
[laughs]
- Secrets, you're always full of secrets Amy Lee.
And anyway, when are you going to visit me in London?
- I'd like that, someday.
- Yeah, well that's a deal.
And don't forget to bring that cute one with you.
Mitchel and the other one, what was his name?
JT or D, I think it was JT
- You are dangerous, and you have a one track mind.
Now what would you do if I did show up?
- Ah wouldn't you like to find out?
[horn music]
[dramatic music]