Tags: Jackie Chan
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This
Karate Kid may not be competing at the same level as the original, but it respects the tradition, and if it doesn’t really have anything new to say, it still says it in a reasonably engaging way.
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Rush Hour 3 is a half-hour of brilliance, preceded by an hour of dreck. That’s a roughly comparable dreck-to-brilliance ratio to the first two
Rush Hour movies, I guess, and par for the course for Jackie Chan’s Hollywood films (and a fair number of his Asian ones). It’s just that the earlier
Rush Hour movies are hit-and-miss throughout, whereas
Rush Hour 3 is basically non-stop missing for an hour, saving all its hits for the end.
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The fact is, Jackie’s appeal is hard to sum up in a single
sentence. Ask five different Jackie Chan fans what they like
about him, and you may get five different answers.
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Without a doubt, the best thing about Frank Coraci’s
Around the World in 80 Days is the fight scenes.
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Teens & Up*
Jackie’s current string of Hollywood buddy movies (the Rush
Hour and Shanghai flicks; The Tuxedo) have
brought him success in the U.S. — but at a price. For one thing,
he’s never been allowed to do the kind of really elaborate,
extended action-comedy sequences that were the heart and soul of
solo efforts like First Strike and Rumble in the
Bronx. For another, he’s had to share the spotlight with a
string of costars ranging from alternately funny and irritating
(Owen Wilson, funny in Shanghai Noon but irritating in
Shanghai Knights, and Chris Tucker, alternatingly funny and
irritating throughout both Rush Hour movies) to just plain
irritating and not funny (Jennifer Love Hewitt in The
Tuxedo).
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Teens & Up
After fifteen years of trying, Jackie Chan finally broke into the U.S. market with
Rumble in the Bronx and
Jackie Chan’s First Strike; but it wasn’t until
Rush Hour that he really connected with mainstream American audiences.
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Rush Hour 2 follows so closely in the footsteps of its hugely successful predecessor that an actual review is practically unnecessary.
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That includes this film’s predecessor, Shanghai Noon,
which, as its witty title suggests, was a clever
East-meets-Old-West tribute to the classic Hollywood Western.
This sequel, set in London, barely manages to be a tribute to
Shanghai Noon. Yet in his inventive, elaborate stunt
choreography Jackie pays wordlessly eloquent homage to the great
physical performers of the past: The Three Stooges, Gene Kelly,
Keystone Cops, Harold Lloyd. And two ladder-fu sequences recall
one of Jackie’s own memorable triumphs in Jackie Chan’s First
Strike.
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The suit is in fact the Tactical Uniform Experiment (TUX), a
high-tech weapons system that acts directly on the user’s nervous
system, instantly enabling Jimmy — who, unlike most of Jackie’s
characters, has no special skills of his own — to dance like Fred
Astaire, climb walls and ceilings like Spider-Man,
and, of course, fight like Jackie Chan.
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