Change the Asian face of Jackie Chan with that of Owen Wilson and what do you have? Another Rush Hour. Oh, there are a few different gimmicks but the slick Black hip-hop speak and cockiness of the roles in which Eddie Murphy excels, give this film the same texture.
The dialogue is often funny but not really witty, the action is hyped and the circumstances are unreal. All in all, I found much of the script to be very predictable but laughed at some of the outrageous scenes anyway. The audience around me was whooping it up big-time and I often found myself laughing more at some of the people around me. Well, it's all grist for the mill. All in all, not a bad show albeit rather low on the cultural scale. The writing lacked much of the tension of Shanghai Noon, Wilson's earlier film with Jackie Chan, but Wilson's repeat of a low key inept character did provide some balance to Murphy's constant ego-driven upstaging.
My suggestion is catch this at a matinee where you can pay a reduced price for admission. You won't have to worry about being intellectually challenged.
The dialogue is often funny but not really witty, the action is hyped and the circumstances are unreal. All in all, I found much of the script to be very predictable but laughed at some of the outrageous scenes anyway. The audience around me was whooping it up big-time and I often found myself laughing more at some of the people around me. Well, it's all grist for the mill. All in all, not a bad show albeit rather low on the cultural scale. The writing lacked much of the tension of Shanghai Noon, Wilson's earlier film with Jackie Chan, but Wilson's repeat of a low key inept character did provide some balance to Murphy's constant ego-driven upstaging.
My suggestion is catch this at a matinee where you can pay a reduced price for admission. You won't have to worry about being intellectually challenged.