Jackie has announced long ago that he would stop filming kung fu style movies. After all he is already 62 as of writing of this message. The man has given us 4 long decades of high flying, high profile, death defying self stunt magnificence. But audience just can't let go... let the man be... he is old... injured many times over. Let him enjoy the other genres.
This movie was not about fighting, most certainly not. This movie was about showing magnificence of mongolia and china alike through cinematic and cultural traditions. This movie literally gave everything it had to give. Sure sure... this could have been a remake of rush hour... but that time has passed and Johnny is the new kid on the block. Their on screen chemistry is pretty good and while premise of the movie was silly some of the times... well most of the time... and while acting was cheesy and characters were unbelievable... it was not about that. It was about 2 men going on a cross country trip by plane, train, automobile, on foot on a raft, in a weird looking car, on top of a donkey, by mule, clinging to a pig float and generally giving us sides of mongolia and china that we normally do not see.
I give this movie a well deserving 6. It could have gotten a 10, have they stripped all the irrelevant mumbo jumbo from beginning and the end. This movie would have been a success just showing a road trip.
This movie was not about fighting, most certainly not. This movie was about showing magnificence of mongolia and china alike through cinematic and cultural traditions. This movie literally gave everything it had to give. Sure sure... this could have been a remake of rush hour... but that time has passed and Johnny is the new kid on the block. Their on screen chemistry is pretty good and while premise of the movie was silly some of the times... well most of the time... and while acting was cheesy and characters were unbelievable... it was not about that. It was about 2 men going on a cross country trip by plane, train, automobile, on foot on a raft, in a weird looking car, on top of a donkey, by mule, clinging to a pig float and generally giving us sides of mongolia and china that we normally do not see.
I give this movie a well deserving 6. It could have gotten a 10, have they stripped all the irrelevant mumbo jumbo from beginning and the end. This movie would have been a success just showing a road trip.