Wolff rating: NOT BAD
Plot summary: Um, something about a warhead sold to terrorists and a CIA double-agent, but we don't know and neither does our hero, Chan.
Biased, pithy comments: Jackie Chan is awesome. I can watch his fight scenes for hours, and certainly one of the scenes, the one with the ladder, is worth watching twice if you rent this show. However, the narrative (I won't dignify the sequence of this movie as a full-fledged plot) is pretty badly edited and the dialog is so abbreviated that you can't keep it all straight. Then again, you don't really care, but it's too bad to saddle such a graceful actor with such a slow, baffling exposition. Watch for the stunts, the amusing outtakes, and the Bond parodies. The Bond parallels in is film are wonderful---Chan is cold, afraid, and underinformed compared to his tuxedo-clad counterpart, and even when Chan has the beautiful hotel room, snazzy clothes, and an attractive female lead, it all falls to pieces and he doesn't get the girl. What fun!
Other Notes: Golly, Chan sure dries off quickly when he gets out of the aquarium.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Jackie Chan, Nonna Grishaeva, Jackson Lou, Yuri Petrov, Bill Tung, Annie Wu.
Directed by: Stanley Tong