You'd have thought Hollywood could have taken Jackie Chan's brilliant understanding of performance martial arts, action and comedic timing into terrific films. But it never seemed to get him and it shows in this film.
It's the pitifully weak central idea, ludicrous plot and weak dialogue that take a great cast of actors (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Isaacs, Peter Stormare) and wastes them in idiotic plotlines. JLH's characters is put through a series of tired old knob-joke style lines that show the writers had run out of ideas. Which is a tragedy with all the skills they had on offer and the cast can't be blamed for that, apart from for signing up maybe. They should have just run instead of taking the money first.
Jackie Chan seems to get pushed into the second support role, presumably because Hollywood doesn't think he's leading man material. They just don't seem to know what to put him in there.
It's the pitifully weak central idea, ludicrous plot and weak dialogue that take a great cast of actors (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Isaacs, Peter Stormare) and wastes them in idiotic plotlines. JLH's characters is put through a series of tired old knob-joke style lines that show the writers had run out of ideas. Which is a tragedy with all the skills they had on offer and the cast can't be blamed for that, apart from for signing up maybe. They should have just run instead of taking the money first.
Jackie Chan seems to get pushed into the second support role, presumably because Hollywood doesn't think he's leading man material. They just don't seem to know what to put him in there.