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Bhoot (2003)
Waste of time
I found this movie totally boring. The first half was OK. But the second.........was not quite done well.
If you expect some thing like The Others, Usual Suspects or Primal Fear, you will be very much disappointed.
Rating : A flat 4/10
Shanghai Knights (2003)
Jackie's Best movie in the last 4 years
I saw Shanghai Knights today and I must tell you that I really liked it. To start off, I am a big fan of Jackie's HK movies and basically I didn't like most of the movies released after 1998.
But finally I was satisfied. SK is really great; the best I have seen in the last 4 years. There is a fight sequence in the market. And Jackie returned to his (g)olden days where anything was a weapon. He used vegetables, umbrellas, ropes, ladders, weight loads and what not. He also performed his trademark "one second" climb up.
Overall there are about 4-5 action sequences. Although Jackie used some of his tricks from his previous movies, you won't feel bored as you haven't seen them for a long time.
You might have already noticed that in his new movies, he doesn't show his close-up while performing some exciting stunts. Here also I doubt if he was doubled. But in the outtakes, he revealed it was he himself on the reel at least for a couple of difficult stunts.
And Owen Wilson is here to make you laugh. In SK, he proves that he is a better partner to Jackie than the over-acting Chris Tucker. His silent comic scenes are much better than Tucker's screams. Altogether a nice blend of action and comedy.
After watching the whole movie, I felt proud that I am a Jackie Chan Fan. At the age of 48, he did things which his American counterparts don't do themselves.