Skiptrace remains lively, diverting, and essentially good-natured even when it’s cheerfully dumb, exploiting its diverse locations for every last drop of local color.
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Village VoiceSimon Abrams
Village VoiceSimon Abrams
Skiptrace proves that nothing can stop Jackie Chan, not even poor judgment.
Chan’s English-language dialogue occasionally comes across a bit muffled, but his body language rarely fails to connect. Knoxville thrashes about in a fairly undisciplined manner, but succeeds in providing a sizeable share of the comic relief.
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Slant MagazineKeith Watson
Slant MagazineKeith Watson
The film's bloated action-comedy machinery prevents any real chemistry from forming between Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville.
Knoxville isn’t as starry a Hollywood foil to his co-star’s iconic stoicism as either Chris Tucker or Owen Wilson, but playing a jackass is right in his wheelhouse and in one action set piece, he’s very funny as a kind of tightly bound human prop.
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The PlaylistJordan Ruimy
The PlaylistJordan Ruimy
[Chan] brings energy to a film that desperately needs any kind of life, but there is only so much Chan can do.