A bad movie

Honestly, I don’t really know why I keep wasting my time with Jackie Chan’s US productions. Ok, I have to admit it, the Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon flicks were quite enjoyable but the rest is just some serious garbage (I still have to see ‘The Tuxedo’ but I’m not really optimistic). I mean, at first you get a pretty neat montage including other Jackie Chan spy movies and you think for a few seconds that the whole thing might be actually pretty entertaining but, right away, you get a really pityful scene involving a mom, her 3 kids and a pig. From then on, it never became better and the whole thing was just a chore to watch. First of all, I find it rather surprising that even though Jackie Chan has been making movies in the US for about 15 years and before that, for 20 years in Hong Kong, his English is still really weak. Of course, you don’t watch his movies for the dialogs but even the action scenes were rather underwhelming. Concerning the plot, it reminded me of ‘The Pacifier’, another inane comedy starring Vin Diesel about a Navy Seal office who has to protect some kids. To conclude, I thought it was pretty bad and you should definitely avoid it.

4/10