Pokemon Detective Pikachu

Tonight I checkout out “Pokémon Detective Pikachu,” released in 2019, and I will let everyone know what I thought about it.

If you are a child of the 90s or the parent of one then you absolutely know what Pokemon are. These animal-like creatures live in the Pokemon Universe (obviously) and have human trainers who catch them and prepare them to battle each other as a contest. Each one has special powers that they can use when fighting. Allison Skornick-Rose said in her review, “This concept with these adorable creatures captured hearts and imaginations making the franchise is one of the highest grossing media franchises of all time with over $90 billion in revenue.” There are video games, trading cards, television shows, books and now, thanks to Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures, a feature film.

Tim Goodman, played by Justice Smith, is a simple boy – so simple actually that he is an insurance salesman. As a child, he was a Pokemon trainer though but decided to leave that in the past. That is until one day he gets a call from the Rhyme City Police department informing him his distant father was killed in a car accident. Tim goes to Rhyme City to pack up his father’s things and leave the past finally forever. However, when cleaning up his dad’s apartment he meets up with Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, his father’s Pokemon partner, who he can actually understand.

Pikachu has amnesia and needs Tim’s help to remember everything that happened to him and Harry. Unwillingly Tim agrees and the two start their mission using clues found in Harry’s apartment including a vial full of gas that brainwashes the Pokemon to become violently aggressive. They soon find out that Harry was on a lead and was probably killed for what he discovered. They follow the clues to a hidden lab only to find Pokemon that were experimented on and brainwashed…buy by whom?

Skornick-Rose mentioned, “When I saw the trailer for this film, it seemed as if Deadpool had been eaten by a small, furry, yellow creature since the voice was obviously the same and the dialogue seemed similar.” However, that is not what you get here and after a few minutes, you forget you are listening to Reynolds voice Pikachu and just hear the words making this probably one of Reynold’s famous performances. Skornick-Rose credited, “Smith does a pretty good job considering he was probably speaking to a stuffed toy for most of the filming.” Kathryn Newton gives a funny performance as the media intern who helps Tim look into his dad’s disappearance and Bill Nighy is good as the founder of Rhyme City.

Skornick-Rose criticized, “Probably the biggest downfall of Pokemon Detective Pikachu is that for me at least, it was very predictable.  The surprises were not a surprise to me and seemed fairly obvious.  However, the graphics are terrific, especially on the Pokemon.  Pikachu is absolutely adorable and I can see stuffed versions becoming one of the hot toys buys for the summer.” The graphic artists did a great job creating every little piece of fur on Pikachu’s yellow coat and explosions and fire are thumbs up as well.

If you are a fan and know the Pokemon world and every animal then you will love this movie. Skornick-Rose said, “If you are not, you will still enjoy it but you won't necessarily understand some of the inside jokes and Easter eggs are hidden in the film.” The nostalgia factor for those in the 90s in itself will attract people to watch this film but obviously this movie did not make enough money to make it anywhere close to the current highest grossing film of all time…“Avengers Endgame.”

I wasn’t surprised that Ryan Reynolds brought his usual funny, quirky self into the role of Pikachu. If he could pull of Deadpool, this wouldn’t be a problem for him. This was, surprisingly, a really funny movie with some real emotional moments that you felt. I saw the first two Pokemon movies in theaters and looking back, they weren’t good. This is hands down the best movie theatrically released in the franchise. See it if you haven’t, you’ll enjoy it whether you’re a fan or not.

Thank you for joining in on tonight’s review. Stay tuned next month to see what I will review next.

Police Story: Lockdown

For an actor like Jackie Chan, whose skills are almost completely physical, age is his enemy that will eventually kill even the weakest of fighters. For fans of Chan (example, every human being able to experience pleasure and joy) his rarely skillful combination of martial arts, crazy stunts, and slapstick comedy has long been the reason why people love him. However, the Jackie Chan in “Police Story: Lockdown,” released in 2013, a harsh action thriller in the “Die Hard” level, is in his late 50s, and even though he’s incredibly active for someone his age, his movement is way more limited and he doesn’t have the acting ability to balance. It doesn’t help that this movie has the same title of one of Chan’s most popular franchises, even though there’s zero overlap when it comes to character and mythology, to say nothing of tone. The “Police Story” franchise was at the height in 1992 with “Supercop,” which had him act alongside Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh for so many memorable setpieces, but two decades in the life of an action actor have really caught up to him.

Scott Tobias said in his review, “The second attempt to reboot the franchise after New Police Story in 2004, Lockdown is mostly a humorless bore until the obligatory bloopers and outtakes in the end credits—and even those are drawing from a flat vein, since there’s so little play in the movie. Though it was a big hit in China, the film boasts production values with a direct-to-video quality that’s reinforced by a story grounded in stock villainy and tacky sentimentality.” Chan plays Zhong, a Beijing police captain who goes to a nightclub by his separated adult daughter Miaomiao, played by Jian Tian, who blames him for her mother’s death. Hoping to resolution, Zhong instead finds Miaomiao dressed up like a rockstar (colorful wig, neck tattoo, etc.) and being in love with the club’s owner, Wu Jiang, played by Liu Ye. When Wu takes Miaomiao and several other prisoners, Zhong has to fight him and his henchmen while seeing a flashback that explains why the kidnapping took place.

Tobias mentioned, “The single-setting “Die Hard in a...” premise eventually combines with a Rashomon-esque series of flashbacks from multiple perspectives to produce an actioner bogged down by an exceedingly talky third act. Writer-director Ding Sheng, who previously worked with Chan on 2010’s Little Big Soldier, tries to goose up the tension with gimmicks (like having the hostages in explodable neck collars) and fake-out fantasy sequences, but the film only really comes to life when Chan and Wu’s burliest bodyguard have it out in a cage match. Though neither comic nor balletic, the scene does showcase Chan’s still-impressive compactness and speed, and adds a bone-crunching violence that goes along with the seriousness of the rest of the film. This is a grittier Jackie Chan largely because it has to be, but a depressing sign that there simply aren’t many tools left in the box.”

I’m sorry to say guys, but the franchise really wore thin with this latest installment. After this one, they never made another reboot or sequel, and you can see why. This one just looked really tired for trying to make it updated with the current times. It just doesn’t work when they tried it in this sort of way. If you liked the franchise, it’s best to stay away from the two reboots because they were just bad. You don’t want to see Jackie Chan in a bad movie, and these reboots are a couple of bad movies that you should avoid.

Alright everyone, we have reached the end of “Police Story Month.” Now that I have done three months of Jackie Chan movies, it’s time to move on and look at other franchises or actors that were in films. Sorry if everyone started to get tired of the constant reviews of Jackie Chan movies, but now I won’t do that since I have done enough Jackie Chan movies for the year. Stay tuned next month to see what I will review next.

New Police Story

Back in the 1980s Jackie Chan was the reigning king of martial arts movie. Matt McAllister said in his review, “Films such as Project A, The Armour of God and Wheels on Meals may have been scrappy around the edges, but they were infused with a joyful combination of slapstick comedy and breath-stealing stunts (usually choreographed and performed by Chan himself, and often resulting in a broken bone or two).”

The Police Story movies were one of his largest franchises, and like many Hong Kong actors and directors who have been not well-liked when transitioning to Hollywood (Chow Yun-Fat, Jet Li, Ringo Lam) Chan has now returned to his franchise for another sequel in the series (however now playing what looks to be a completely different character).

The problem with “New Police Story,” released in 2004, isn’t that Jackie Chan is too old for these movies. He may be over 50, but just like showing his successful swift-fast scenes he’s still more than able of performing every hand-to-hand fight. McAllister said, “Though to be fair the movie isn’t quite so confident of Chan’s abilities, writer Alan Yeun seeing fit to pair the flash-fisted legend with a young upstart (played by Gen-X Cops’ Nicholas Tse) for much of the on-screen action.”

McAllister continued, “No, the main downfall of New Police Story is that audiences are a lot less tolerant of witnessing an irony-free succession of cop movie clichés than they were in the 80s.” It is part of the reason that we still greatly remember the original “Lethal Weapon” and “Beverly Hills Cop” movies, and their later sequels were wearing thin. McAllister noted, “And make no mistake – New Police Story leaves no cop movie cliché unearthered.” You want the no nonsense boss? He’s in here. You want a “red wire or green wire” scene? That’s in here. You want footage of the good cop getting drunk out of depression of a mission gone wrong? I think everyone can figure it out.

McAllister noted, “To be fair New Police Story does try and bring itself up to date with a cartoonish plot involving a bunch of extreme sport fans who stage huge robberies and then off coppers like it’s one of their favourite computer games. But the scenes of skateboarding dudes or computer gaming are just embarrassing, like your dad dressing up in baggy jeans and boogieing on down at your local nightclub.”

This is also a surprisingly bad film, with minor characters (especially cops) killed in so many stupidly violent ways that looks really odd with the warm nature of the comedy scenes.  The press notes say that the film has the number of the “highest (fictional) police officers injured and sacrificed during its course.” If that’s a number that impresses you, then “New Police Story” could be the film for you.

Unavoidably the movie does have some great stunts, despite not many that you’d expect from a Jackie Chan movie. McAllister mentioned, “Hong Kong, with its shimmering neon, skyscrapers and complex escalator system, is still the perfect backdrop for these kind of movies, and some fantastic rooftop action scenes show off the city in all its glory.” Part of the liking of martial arts movies is seeing what new and inventive ways for the fight scenes to happen and for the movie people put in to get a fun driving double-decker bus scene and a nicely put together fight in a child’s playground.

However, despite the huge budget, “New Police Story” mostly turns out as ten years outdated. McAllister said, “Clichéd and often ludicrously sentimental, this still isn’t anywhere near as bad as some of Chan’s Hollywood endeavours (The Tuxedo anyone?).” However, it does show that this insistently friendly actor may really need a few new ideas if he wants to continue making movies.

If you liked the last movies in the franchise, don’t see this remake. It’s completely ludicrous as to why they would even think of making a remake, especially after the last one was bad. The plot in this movie does seem to look good for the times, but it doesn’t fit in this franchise. Just head my advice and never see this.

Stay tuned this Friday for the conclusion to “Police Story Month” where we’ll talk about the last remake that was even worse.

Scoob!

Tonight I saw the new “Scoob!” movie, which came out nine days ago On Demand. Now, I was a fan of the “Scooby-Doo” cartoon growing up and watched it a lot. It taught kids deductive reasoning when solving the cases. However, I wasn’t fond of the spin-offs, like “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.” I don’t like it when they took famous characters and decided to spin-off the cartoon by showing them in their childhood or teenage years. For me, it just didn’t work. However, the other spin-off, “The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show/The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries,” I remember seeing a little bit of. I especially remember that catchy theme from “The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries” which never left me. However, I do agree with everyone that Scooby’s nephew, Scrappy-Doo, was pointless and annoying. He didn’t really do anything to help the characters out. I think it may or may not be surprising to see that a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that started in 1969-1970 has so much popularity that their still making cartoons and spin-off movies for it to this day.

Seeing how popular the franchise had begun, it was inevitable that they decided to make movies to cash in on their popularity. I only saw little bits of the first two live-action movies that came out in the early 2000s, but I never sat down and saw the whole movie. I did see the Nostalgia Critic’s review of the three movies and I’m glad I never saw them. However, enough of all that; let’s talk about how this new CGI movie is and if it’s good for families to rent.

Rich Cline started his review by saying, “Corporate fingerprints are all over this colourful, energetic animated feature, which was clearly designed to establish a franchise of Hanna-Barbera characters while referencing Warner Media properties from Harry Potter to Wonder Woman. There are moments when the movie captures the inane glee of the original Scooby-Doo cartoons, complete with some terrific character gags. But the expanded blockbuster scale is uninteresting, complete with pointlessly bloated action sequences.”

After solving so many cases, the Mystery Inc team is thinking what the next step will be, getting assistance from America’s Got Talent judge, Simon Cowell himself. He likes strong Fred (Zac Efron), intelligent Velma (Gina Rodruiguez) and friendly Daphne (Amanda Seyfried), but doesn’t understand clumsy Shaggy (Will Forte) or his funny dog Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker). When Dick Dastardly (Jason Isaacs) sends killer robots after Shaggy and Scooby, they’re saved by the heroic Blue Falcon (Mark Wahlberg), his pilot Dee Dee (Kiersey Clemons) and robot dog Dynomutt (Ken Jeong). Now everyone has to join forces to stop Dastardly from collecting three skulls before flying to Athens to release Cerberus from Hades’ palace.

A cute beginning shows the kid Shaggy meeting the stray pup Scooby, introducing Blue Falcon as a toy and showcasing the young kids’ first mystery. Cline said, “Almost immediately after this, everything turns spacey, with Falcon's gleaming futuristic jet pursued by Dastardly's steampunk airship. This bigger-is-better approach never pays off, mainly because the frankenscript fails to construct a coherent narrative to hold each plot element together.” Instead, the story just jumps from one set-piece to another, with the best parts being throwaway comedy tricks in between.

The animators and voice cast work together to create amazingly hilarious characters. The Mystery Inc gang is perfectly recognized, with added personality quirks and enjoyable equivalents between three men and their dog partners. Cline noted, “But the filmmakers forgot that what made their nuttiness so enduring was the way they always debunked the magic. In addition, Scooby's distinctively silly speech-patterns have been blandly modified. And some side figures feel oddly shoehorned in, such as a random encounter with Captain Caveman (Tracy Morgan).”

Little kids will love the general insanity, but adults might get bored with the highly messy silliness, because the rambunctious story doesn’t try to make sense. Cline ended his review by saying, “The film is fast and frantic, but the story feels made up as it goes along, with pointless melodrama and overwrought action that feel like a distraction from the more endearing character comedy. The studio clearly thinks escalating spectacle is what makes a franchise, but it's the zany slapstick that will bring audiences back.”

Personally, I felt that this movie was a nice, fun movie for families to watch together. Just to see that they, possibly, added other famous Hanna-Barbera characters that I have never heard of must have been nice. Scooby-Doo was famous for doing a lot of crossovers, especially in the specials with guest stars of cultural icons that were famous at the time. I would say it wouldn’t hurt to see it, so check it out if you’re an old-school Scooby-Doo fan.

Thank you for joining in on tonight’s review. Check in the morning for my next review on “Police Story Month.”

First Strike

We have now come to the 1996 underwhelming “Police Story 4: First Strike” or “Jackie Chan’s First Strike.” TV Guide’s Maitland McDonagh started their review by saying, “Hong Kong's clown prince of knockabout action movies goes through his usual paces in this lean entry (trimmed from 110 minutes to 88) in the POLICE STORY series, a good-natured tale of rogue CIA agents, international arms sales and gleefully improbable martial-arts mayhem.”

Chan plays Jackie, a member of the Hong Kong police force who’s assigned to a CIA mission in Ukraine, where double-agent Tsui, played by Jackson Lou, is looking around for a nuclear mission. After a lot of trouble, Jackie finds himself in Australia, where Tsui’s family lives: His beautiful sister (Chen Chen Wu) swims with the sharks at a local aquarium/water park and her sick dad, Uncle Seven (Terry Woo), is in charge of the local Chinatown gangs.

Even in this trimmed edition, the movie still takes a while to move along: The first large action scene – involving Jackie, Tsui’s very livid family and a ladder – is almost an hour into the movie. McDonagh ended the review by saying, “Fans will be happy to stick it out for the shenanigans at Uncle Seven's funeral, including Chan's stunts on stilts.”

After the first three movies, this one really showed a downhill slope. The franchise was doing so well, what happened? Where was the excitement that we had before? This one was a huge disappointment. If you liked the first three movies, don’t see this one, it’s not worth the watch. You will be underwhelmed when watching it.

Believe it or not, they tried to reboot the franchise twice. How did they do? Check in next week when we look at them in “Police Story Month.”

Police Story 3: Supercop

With martial arts actor Jackie Chan, older may be better. “Police Story 3: Supercop,” released in 1996, was shot in 1992. This film, as described by Rita Kempley, “is superior to last year's "Rumble in the Bronx," also directed by veteran Chan-champion Stanley Tong.”

Chan has typecast himself, so it doesn’t matter what the story or setting is. He’s the pleasant fighter, always ready to flirt or fight while (almost always) performing the right task the wrong way.

In this film, he’s Detective Kevin Chan, sent to China to penetrate a drug cartel that’s ruled by the evil Chaibat (Ken Tsang) and his equally evil, shortly imprisoned brother Panther (Yuen Wah). After breaking out, Chan finds himself teaming up with strict Inspector Yang, played by Michelle Yeoh.

After that, the story is filled with trust and betrayal. Kempley said, “There are more explosions and gunfights than in most Chan features, but the best moments are the hand-to-hand-to-neck-to-groin combat scenes. Usually, Chan starts out in a defensive posture -- he loves to make opponents miss -- before moving into his trademark super-speedy attack mode.”

Chan looks like he has fallen in love with Yeoh, Asia’s top female action star. Like Chan, Yeoh does her own fighting and stunts. Different from Hollywood’s action subject, Chan and Yeoh don’t rely on cinematic effects. Theirs are not special effects, just amazing ones. Kempley said, “Connoisseurs will find Chan's helicopter-train chase far riskier, more exciting and more believable than its mates in "Mission Impossible" and "The Living Daylights."”

Both stars take off the comic relief as hectic fun, mainly after Chan’s girlfriend, reprised by Maggie Cheung, shows up in Kuala Lumpur and threatens to blow his cover. It’s in the Malaysian capital that the action increases into public scene both on the ground and in the air (Kempley said, “No trapeze artist ever worked so high without a net”). It may not be great filmmaking, but it’s great fun.

Kempley said, “"Supercop" is dubbed wonderfully badly. While Chan is given a voice that is so thickly accented you wonder why the filmmakers bothered, other Chinese characters speak like Oxford dons. Still, the most recurrent phrases are "Are you okay?" and "Uh?" More incongruous is the soundtrack, which wisely keeps the volume down on cuts from Tha Dogg Pound, Tupac Shakur, Black Grape, No Doubt and Tom Jones (on a bleated update of Carl Douglas's "Kung Fu Fighting"). Unlike Chan and Yeoh, it packs no punch whatsoever.”

In my honest opinion, this is probably the best of the franchise. Mainly because of the camaraderie between Chan and Yeoh because these two are the best parts of the movie and their action scenes are top notch, as always. They really are a joy to see in action when they are fighting the villains and I sincerely think that anyone who liked the first two movies will thoroughly find themselves enjoying this one a lot. For those who have seen the first two movies should absolutely see this one because they will love it a lot. Take my word for it, this is one worth seeing.

Now that we have talked about this film, stay tuned next week to see if the franchise keeps getting better or will go downhill in “Police Story Month.”

Police Story 2

This sequel may be a little weak on story, but it doesn’t matter when Jackie Chan is doing his best stunts.

Because of the trouble he got into in the first movie, Hong Kong police officer Kevin Chan has been demoted to traffic duty. While working, he is noticed by the villain, Tom Ku, played by Cho Yuen, out of jail after only a few months. Ku makes indirect but obvious threats against Kevin and his girlfriend, May. After Ku’s men begin to harass May and her mother, Kevin starts a public fight with them. When he is lectured by his boss, Bill Wong (Bill Tung), and by-the-books Superintendent Lee (Kwok Hung Lam), he puts in his resignation.

Relieved at this choice, May takes Kevin to a shopping mall to buy tickets for a trip to Bali. The mall gets a bomb threat, and Kevin takes over from the hesitant officers at the location, evacuating the mall just before the bomb explodes. This enrages May, and Wong and Lee force Kevin into investigating the bombing, the first in a series by a group who want $10 million in “protection” money.

When Kevin’s investigation threatens to put an end to their plans, the criminals kidnap May. Kevin goes to look for her, and they also kidnap him. TV Guide mentioned in their review, “Torturing him with explosive squibs and threatening to torture May as well, they force Kevin to agree to pick up the ransom money--and attach a timebomb to him just to make sure.” Kevin gets the ransom, but on the way back to the warehouse ends up disarming the bomb. He frees May and fights the criminals in a fight that finishes in the amazing explosion of the warehouse.

If “Police Story II,” released in 1986, is a step below the first one, it is because it does not have as much of a story where you are on the edge of your seat (changing villains halfway through was a bad idea) and because that conclusion is a little less amazing. However, in some ways, this is a better film. TV Guide noted, “The pace is much smoother, and if there are fewer moments that make you sit up and go "Wow!," the overall level of action is higher: Chan seems to be in motion from beginning to end.”

TV Guide continued, “At this stage in his career, Chan had decided to start downplaying his martial arts skills to concentrate on stunts and less personal violence. So it's a bit disappointing that his final fight scene with high-kicking Benny Lai, which evokes similar climactic scenes from WHEELS AND MEALS and DRUNKEN MASTER II, ends with Chan turning his opponent's main weapon--explosive squibs--against him.” Still, the film moves at a nice pace, and is one of Chan’s best. Chan is also singing the song at the end credits, which (as does all of his post-1970s films) has outtakes of the stunts that didn’t work. There is also one where Maggie Cheung cracked her skull in a stunt from the film’s climax. Even though she was able to attempt a retake before being taken to the hospital, she was replaced by an obvious double for the end scenes.

For those who have seen the first movie, I would recommend seeing the sequel. You may not like it as much as the first one, but you should still see it. It’s a good sequel to a good movie that I think everyone who likes Jackie Chan will get into.

What can be said about the third movie? Stay tuned next week to find out in the continuation of “Police Story Month.”

Police Story

For the month of May, let’s take a look at a famous Jackie Chan franchise, the “Police Story” movies. Let’s get started with the first “Police Story,” released in 1985, one of the great and one of the most action films of the 80s. Matt Zoller Seitz said in his review, “It’s a bundle of cop-on-the-edge clichés that climaxes with Chan’s Hong Kong policeman hero at war with both his by-the-book superior officers and the crime lord villain who remains stubbornly beyond the law’s reach. The synthesized score is music to mousse one’s hair by.” Like many of Chan’s films from around this time in his career, it ends with a freeze-frame, followed with bloopers of Chan and his co-actors messing up on set and getting injured, with a pop song sung by Chan himself in the background.

However, as is the case with a lot of famous comedies, along with most memorable thrillers, the excellence of “Police Story” has nothing to do with what kind of movie it is, and everything to do with how it’s done. Seitz said, “Like most of Chan’s signature films, this one is driven by his ingenuity as an athlete, stunt choreographer, and director.”

The story is about Chan’s character, Kevin Chan, trying to protect state’s witness Selina Fong (Bridgett Lin), girlfriend of gangster Chu Tao (Chor Yuen), from being kidnapped and killed before she can testify at a trial. Seitz said, “There are a lot of twists in the script, but it’s ultimately less of a fully developed story than a narrative through-line upon which Chan can hang a series of self-contained set-pieces that showcase varieties of physical acting, from stage-fighting and death-defying stunt work to pratfalls and corny bits of shtick.”

“Police Story” starts and ends with long, highly choreographed, remarkably violent scenes where, respectively, a mountainside village and a department store are demolished. Seitz noted, “The rest is a series of equally ludicrous but smaller-scaled encounters, some modeled on screwball comedies, others on shenanigans churned out during the first half of the 20th century by screen comics like Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, and Chan’s personal god, actor/director/stunt performer Buster Keaton. Like most Hong Kong action stars of his generation, Chan was trained by the Peking Opera Company as an all-purpose, variety show-type of performer who can do pretty much anything with his body and is eager to prove it.” The entire film has the thinking of a great showman who wants to impress in every moment, large or small. Seitz mentioned, “During the long, farce-dominated middle section of “Police Story,” Chan will occasionally throw in a brief, small-scale action scene, like the one where his character fights a bunch of guys in a parking lot, as if to reassure moviegoers who are only here for the punch-outs, car crashes, and wild stunt work that he hasn’t forgotten about them. But they’re just one flavor in the smorgasbord.”

Seitz continued, “The crime lord’s attorney makes like a Marx brother in court, twisting language and logic into pretzels to make his obviously guilty client seem innocent.” Kevin’s girlfriend May, played by Maggie Cheung, who thinks Kevin’s cheating on her with Selina, argues with him on a suddenly angled street while Kevin leans into the open passenger-side window of his car, being the brakes because he accidentally left the car in neutral. Seitz noted, “In an especially weird and abrasive slapstick scene, Kevin asks a colleague to pretend to be a home-invading assassin to make Selina accept him as her protector; it plays like something out of a horror spoof like "Scary Movie."” There’s one small scene where Kevin tries to keep three phone conversations going while sliding throughout the squad office in a desk chair and getting stuck in the cords. (Seitz ended his review by saying, “Fred Astaire and Charlie Chaplin used to allow themselves these sorts of intimate showcases, turning ordinary objects such as coat racks or dinner rolls into scene partners.”)

Once again, this is another classic Jackie Chan movie that everyone should check out, if you haven’t. It’s a great start to an amazing and memorable franchise that everyone will love. Especially seeing the scenes where Chan looks like he really put himself at a near death experience. Like the final fight sequence in the mall where it looked like Chan electrocuted himself by sliding through all the wires and breaking through glass. See the film to know for yourself.

Check in next week when we look at the sequel to this film in “Police Story Month.”