Kevin Chu's The Treasure Hunter is, in essence, a twelve-year-old boy's imagination dropped into a tumble dryer, a mish-mash of pre-adolescent wish-fulfilment, influences pulled out of a hat and an conveyor belt of token genre trappings - the fast car, the gadgets, the girl - the filmmakers don't seem to know what to do with.
It can be fun, in the same way it can be genuinely entertaining listening to a child describe how given half a chance they could make the greatest film ever, but Jay Chou's latest big-screen adventure doesn't so much jump the shark as ride it whooping into orbit, over and over until for all the goodwill its sense of fun engenders, the whole thing still starts to drag.
The mainland superstar takes the lead as Qiao Fei, a laconic Indiana Jones stand-in who's made it his life's work to foil grave-robbers looking to...
It can be fun, in the same way it can be genuinely entertaining listening to a child describe how given half a chance they could make the greatest film ever, but Jay Chou's latest big-screen adventure doesn't so much jump the shark as ride it whooping into orbit, over and over until for all the goodwill its sense of fun engenders, the whole thing still starts to drag.
The mainland superstar takes the lead as Qiao Fei, a laconic Indiana Jones stand-in who's made it his life's work to foil grave-robbers looking to...
- 3/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Hong Kong -- On his just-completed swing through some of the Confucian parts of Asia -- China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea -- President Obama faced issues with which the film industry in this part of the world already is familiar.
These include issues of market access, a China that is pushing ahead as a regional superpower but already wants to play on a global stage and a string of Asian economies that largely have pulled out of recession and are out of step with a lumbering U.S.
Precisely how Asia's film industries deal with the rise of China and the new local balance of power isn't clear. It won't be without its bumps, but the biggest surprise might be how easily the rest of Asia falls in line.
"We could be entering an era of interdependence within Asian cinema," says Lee Joo-ick, a Korean producer who recently completed "The Warrior's Way,...
These include issues of market access, a China that is pushing ahead as a regional superpower but already wants to play on a global stage and a string of Asian economies that largely have pulled out of recession and are out of step with a lumbering U.S.
Precisely how Asia's film industries deal with the rise of China and the new local balance of power isn't clear. It won't be without its bumps, but the biggest surprise might be how easily the rest of Asia falls in line.
"We could be entering an era of interdependence within Asian cinema," says Lee Joo-ick, a Korean producer who recently completed "The Warrior's Way,...
- 11/23/2009
- by By Patrick Frater
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
First trailer for Yen-ping Chu’s big budget adventure The Treasure Hunter that looks like a strange mixture between Indiana Jones, The Mummy, Good/Bad/Weird and something else with a ridiculously looking villain. Maybe this won’t be as bad as it looks in the trailer, Yen-ping Chu directed the exploitation classic Golden Queens Commando after all…
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In the northwest desert where countless prosperous dynasties have flourish and fallen, there is rumour of a buried treasure of unbelievable riches. A group of mysterious guardians have kept the map to the location of the treasure safe, until a fierce rivalry erupts. A notorious international crime group, The Company hunt down the map keepers and before they manage to secure it, the keeper passes the map to a young chivalrous man Ciao Fei (Jay Chou). Ciao Fei is forced to give up the map to save the...
[See post to watch Flash video] Synopsis via 24Framesperseconds.net
In the northwest desert where countless prosperous dynasties have flourish and fallen, there is rumour of a buried treasure of unbelievable riches. A group of mysterious guardians have kept the map to the location of the treasure safe, until a fierce rivalry erupts. A notorious international crime group, The Company hunt down the map keepers and before they manage to secure it, the keeper passes the map to a young chivalrous man Ciao Fei (Jay Chou). Ciao Fei is forced to give up the map to save the...
- 9/17/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
Director: Kevin Chu. Review: Adam Wing. Replacing football (well it’s just not soccer is it) with basketball, Kung Fu Dunk is the latest cinematic showpiece from director Kevin Chu. You probably haven’t heard of him and there’s a really good reason for that, his movies are rubbish. Kung Fu Dunk comes complete with action choreography from the team that brought us Shaolin Soccer, Curse Of The Golden Flower and House Of Flying Daggers. The cast is pretty damn impressive too, not only do we have Eric Tsang and Jay Chou competing for our attention, the ever-adorable Charlene Choi makes an appearance in pigtails and glasses. Which is always a good thing in my book, and believe me, she has never looked better than she does here. Fang Shi-Jie spends most of his time perfecting his ancient skills in the local martial arts school, that is until he...
- 9/13/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
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