I found it hard to believe the movie made it past the first draft.
The story was very thin, there were few twists or turns. Chan’s partner in the PD was overacting, IMHO.
The kidnapping scene was poorly done, the kidnappers had the whole stupid (and unorigional) Biff and Buff attitude.
There were a few Matrix style fights (with a shakey camera to avoid making it EXACTLY like the Matrix).
The homosexual jokes (where the two are discussing who will be “on top”) were unrelated to the story, not even amusing, and were probably insulting to a few.
The music was just the most popular music from the past several months, nothing that really fit the scenes at all.
Overall, IMHO, it was terrible.
It was awful and nearly incomprehensible. My part was the terrible dubbing in the scenes in Hong Kong. But to be fair to the film, it seems that a whopping 27 minutes were edited out late in the game (notice that some things you saw in the commercials weren’t in the movie?), which will destroy almost any movie. It wrecked what plot there was. Not that it would’ve been anything special anyway.
apparently, the americans brought in some video game director or something to add new scenes later. this was a Hong Kong produced movie, which makes me sad that it wasn’t very good Both Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung have done much better work in their sleep. There were a few good fight scenes, but they are buried beneath miles of garbage. as much fun as the Golden Child was, we don’t need a pseudo-sequal.
but the knife scene was hilarious!
Yes the movie was extremely terrible, considering some of the other movies Chan has put out in the past. Only two things really save this movie from a trip to hell:
1)The chick from Mall Rats is in it. YUM!
2)The bloopers at the end of the movie. Seeing Jackie Chan and his cohorts mess up is always pretty funny
IMO, the problem is that Jackie Chan movies in America tend to have quick cuts all over the place, which breaks up the beauty of the choreographed fight scenes.
They should stop making Jackie Chan movies and just make a 90-minute reel of Jackie’s bloopers. That guy could break a rib pouring himself a bowl of cereal.
The movie overall was not that great, but I really, really liked two of the action scenes, both of which were in the first act. The first was the scene where they try to rescue the kid in… Hong Kong, was it? It was at night, and they were all in black. The second was the chase scene in Dublin, before they go to the docks. The part where he steps on the bicycle seats alone was perfect enough to keep me from being totally disappointed with the film.
And I hope that Mallrats is not all you know of Claire Forlani. She’s not the best actress, but she wasn’t exactly in top form in that film.
