A nice surprise

Since I'm not a big fan of those 'Rush Hour' flicks, I wasn't expecting much from this. Indeed, by now, I have seen all the US movies starring Jackie Chan (I think I’m only missing ‘The Tuxedo but I’m not optimistic) and, honestly, most of them were pretty much garbage (on the other hand, I have started watching some of his Hong-Kong productions and they didn’t impress me either). Anyway, coming back to our main feature, I have to admit it, I was actually really positively surprised. Indeed, even though it must have sounded really silly on paper, the combination of Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan actually worked like a charm and, somehow, they surprisingly perfectly fit in the Western world. I mean, this genre is pretty much dead by now (the recent flops of ‘The Lone Ranger’ and ‘A Millions Ways to Die in the West’ won’t help either) so it was quite refreshing to see such a fun and unpretentious Western and since it was rather successful at the box-office, they even made a sequel. Obviously, the story was rather standard but it was entertaining enough and I was rather captivated until the end and I think it is actually worth a look.

6/10