"Vanguard" is probably one of the corniest action flicks I've seen this year but it has enough non stop action, to pull it off.
From start to end there's lot of martial arts and weapons play to keep the viewer happy. Jackie Chan's trade mark is everywhere to be seen with a large doses of the kind of semi comical, choreographed fight scenes, that made him famous.
On top of this is are large dollops of sugary, overly sentimental family and very tame romance scenes. I know from my time in China audiences there love this stuff. That said, it doesn't travel well and many Western viewers, like myself, will see it as downright corny.
If you can look past this and I think you should, there's enough excitement, fun and pure entertainment on offer here, to keep the majority of action fans more than satisfied.
6/10 from me.
From start to end there's lot of martial arts and weapons play to keep the viewer happy. Jackie Chan's trade mark is everywhere to be seen with a large doses of the kind of semi comical, choreographed fight scenes, that made him famous.
On top of this is are large dollops of sugary, overly sentimental family and very tame romance scenes. I know from my time in China audiences there love this stuff. That said, it doesn't travel well and many Western viewers, like myself, will see it as downright corny.
If you can look past this and I think you should, there's enough excitement, fun and pure entertainment on offer here, to keep the majority of action fans more than satisfied.
6/10 from me.