Tag: Jackie Chan

Chan and Son Despite a busy and choppy pace, Railroad Tigers pops with comedic enthusiasm. It’s a nationalist story, set during the Japanese occupation of China. The bumbling, often …

Drink Up It’s 90 minutes until Drunken Master shows signs of a plot. A local wants to dig up a graveyard to unearth the coal waiting below. That story …

Overshadowed Masterfully twisting Sleeping Beauty into an Eastern martial arts comedy farce, Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow designates Jackie Chan as beauty, fighting his way through bullies. It’s not …

Skip… Just Skip The undercurrent of Skiptrace holds a farewell tone. A police chief looks at Jackie Chan and states, “Time to think about retirement.” Later, to co-star Johnny …

Po-faced Kung Fu Panda 3’s important lesson buries itself under 80 or so minutes of frantic action. Po (Jack Black) learns the value of failure and how it makes …

Jackie Chan can’t fight against pitiful performances Jackie Chan highlights this Chinese historical drama which is rapidly sabotaged by American co-stars Adrien Brody and John Cusack. They’re insufferable. Not …

More Like Rumble in Post-Apocalyptic New York New York to Rumble in the Bronx is a surreal wasteland where graffiti soaks into every surface, biker groups smash car windows …

Jackie Chan Tag Teams with a Shark and Brawls with a Ladder Jackie Chan’s weaponization in First Strike extends to sharks, stilts, and snowboards. Chan even concocted the idea …

Jackie Chan’s Police Story series moves into the thriller genre Jackie Chan returns to a series which made him famous, if without the stunts that made IT famous. Age …

Knights is bound and determined to entertain, and in the end, plays it ridiculously safe.

Chan flips kicks the piece to success, towering over the hackneyed familiarity of the cliche-riddled script with wildly kooky fight scenes.

Aficionados of Chan's earlier works may find Dragon Lord more tolerable than those brought up on the likes of Rush Hour