I love Jackie Chan. I even met him once in 2003, and I'm currently living in Hong Kong studying some martial arts partly due to his inspiration.
In a TV interview with Chan, he explained how he didn't like dialogue parts because he was too nervous and unnatural to use English. Yet as his age starts to hamper his acrobatic stunt flair (and he really has been at it for a LONG time), he seems to feel he now needs to be cast in these 'Johnny English' roles, where he becomes a Chinese clown in all things cool USA, accompanied by the latest hot female star. This time it's Jennifer Love-Hewitt, who I still don't think has any particular talents. Just nicely groomed hair.
The use of a 'magic suit' is really just an Inspector Gadget derivation, and doesn't really provide any originality to the plot. The other plot which runs alongside it is the threat of a water contamination scam (I'm sure the FBI were on red alert already). Actually several of Chan's films start to concern themselves with the 'environmental baddies' - an echo of Christopher Reeves intention in his last days as Superman.
All I hope to see is Chan doing his infamous acrobatics, but unfortunately these are getting fewer and fewer. I hope he doesn't continue to make these simple disposable films of similar genres just for the sake of it. (But yep, the Medallion film came out not long after and was lamentably even another step down from Tuxedo).
Not one of Chan's finest.
In a TV interview with Chan, he explained how he didn't like dialogue parts because he was too nervous and unnatural to use English. Yet as his age starts to hamper his acrobatic stunt flair (and he really has been at it for a LONG time), he seems to feel he now needs to be cast in these 'Johnny English' roles, where he becomes a Chinese clown in all things cool USA, accompanied by the latest hot female star. This time it's Jennifer Love-Hewitt, who I still don't think has any particular talents. Just nicely groomed hair.
The use of a 'magic suit' is really just an Inspector Gadget derivation, and doesn't really provide any originality to the plot. The other plot which runs alongside it is the threat of a water contamination scam (I'm sure the FBI were on red alert already). Actually several of Chan's films start to concern themselves with the 'environmental baddies' - an echo of Christopher Reeves intention in his last days as Superman.
All I hope to see is Chan doing his infamous acrobatics, but unfortunately these are getting fewer and fewer. I hope he doesn't continue to make these simple disposable films of similar genres just for the sake of it. (But yep, the Medallion film came out not long after and was lamentably even another step down from Tuxedo).
Not one of Chan's finest.