After Rumble in the Bronx came out in U.S, a lot of people were interested in Jackie Chan and Supercop, in my general impression, is it's not bad, but not great.
Action:
The action is all there. We all know Jackie does his own stunts so that's amazing. The fighting from Jackie is awesome and entertaining and surprisingly, Michelle ye-oh was also very entertaining and refreshing.
The only action sequence i say that is over the top is the one versus the drug lords. The drug lords vs. Military vs. themselves was good but a little dis believable. I mean 3 guys with rocket launchers can take down the entire militia like that? Makes no sense. Especially since one of the guys merely had a grenade launcher which for some odd reason exploded grenades like they were rockets but whatever.
Characeters: Jackie Chan is always great. His over the top comedy plus nice friendly attitude are what make Jackie enjoyable. If you don't like Jackie Chan then why are you even watching his movie?
The only character i have a problem with is Jackie's girlfriend. I'm not sure why every Chinese movie has to have some air head, annoying, irritating Chinese woman in it but it does. It was very foolish for her to spill out Jackies character to a co worker in a crowded elevator. Every time she hit Jackie you wanted him to sidekick her ass out the door. In my opinion, Jackie could have just stuck with Michelle and cut her out her part entirely.
Storyline:
First the storyline seemed strait forward. Jackie is a cop, is hired by Chinese government to infiltrate a criminal gang learn there secret bring him down. No problems there.
From that point is gets tricky and bad. It seems like the movie was written literally on spot, or as the movie went along. The transitions were not smooth towards the middle and to be honest, the movie started to get semi boring.
It all started with the police that wanted to take down the criminals in the restaurant. It made no sense that the officer would not recognize Michelle as she is a top notch high brass officer. Second, wouldn't Chinese interpol or what not let all the police in on what is going on?
It's the same on the boat ride. Why again? It just isn't realistic to have the police force always after the criminal when they know or should know they have two officers undercover. At first i thought it was apart of the plan but when they started firing guns at them on the boat, it obviously wasn't.
Another point is the fact that such high profile criminals wouldn't know high profile good guys. Most American movies already know this so they capitalize by having the criminals get close to finding the truth and are from day one suspicious. This movie didn't go that direction but what another direction which was not great or expected. It left a lot of grounds it should have covered, not traveled at all.
Further, another weird storyline is with Panther's older brother. The movie throws a wild card by bringing in his brother who simply wants to take over the drugs by killing all other drug lords then he tells the general to fly to wherever to meet with the main people but instead we never see the general again and next thing we know, there trying to free the wife? Why?
The hotel resort sequences were bad also. How many times does Jackie have to tell his Girlfriend IM UNDERCOVER. He told her before he left, he told her there, he told her after she was pushed in the pool, but she played the dumb blonde part and opened her mouth in the elevator. Whoops. I can't stress enough how she makes this movie semi enjoyable to irritating in no time.
The final part which made NO SENSE is when they finally tell Panther there undercover, he captures them but next thing we know there not captured anymore and are trying to use the wife as bait to get back Jackies girlfriend. Why have the whole drug-lord thing of going to meet with the main guys? Wasn't Chibot supposed to be for the drugs? If there cover was blown why not just call in everyone? Michelle even said they've had no contact from Hong Kong. Why? See how confusing it is? Why drop the girlfriend off before they even have the wife? Did panther really go through all that trouble to get out of prison just to help his brother get his wife out of prison? What happened to that money Panther had promised Jackie? What about that shipment of heroine?
See the problem is there's just too much going on. Drugs, escaping wife from Prison, Military, Older brother etc. It just becomes a convoluted mess.
Overall the movie was good in action, good in most characters but the storyline got weak and confusing. Certain scenes should not have been written in and generally this film should have been put in the editing table, tested and redone but probably due to a low budget, it probably wasn't possible.
In conclusion, -1 1/2 for the girlfriend, - 3 1/2 for storyline = 5/10
Action:
The action is all there. We all know Jackie does his own stunts so that's amazing. The fighting from Jackie is awesome and entertaining and surprisingly, Michelle ye-oh was also very entertaining and refreshing.
The only action sequence i say that is over the top is the one versus the drug lords. The drug lords vs. Military vs. themselves was good but a little dis believable. I mean 3 guys with rocket launchers can take down the entire militia like that? Makes no sense. Especially since one of the guys merely had a grenade launcher which for some odd reason exploded grenades like they were rockets but whatever.
Characeters: Jackie Chan is always great. His over the top comedy plus nice friendly attitude are what make Jackie enjoyable. If you don't like Jackie Chan then why are you even watching his movie?
The only character i have a problem with is Jackie's girlfriend. I'm not sure why every Chinese movie has to have some air head, annoying, irritating Chinese woman in it but it does. It was very foolish for her to spill out Jackies character to a co worker in a crowded elevator. Every time she hit Jackie you wanted him to sidekick her ass out the door. In my opinion, Jackie could have just stuck with Michelle and cut her out her part entirely.
Storyline:
First the storyline seemed strait forward. Jackie is a cop, is hired by Chinese government to infiltrate a criminal gang learn there secret bring him down. No problems there.
From that point is gets tricky and bad. It seems like the movie was written literally on spot, or as the movie went along. The transitions were not smooth towards the middle and to be honest, the movie started to get semi boring.
It all started with the police that wanted to take down the criminals in the restaurant. It made no sense that the officer would not recognize Michelle as she is a top notch high brass officer. Second, wouldn't Chinese interpol or what not let all the police in on what is going on?
It's the same on the boat ride. Why again? It just isn't realistic to have the police force always after the criminal when they know or should know they have two officers undercover. At first i thought it was apart of the plan but when they started firing guns at them on the boat, it obviously wasn't.
Another point is the fact that such high profile criminals wouldn't know high profile good guys. Most American movies already know this so they capitalize by having the criminals get close to finding the truth and are from day one suspicious. This movie didn't go that direction but what another direction which was not great or expected. It left a lot of grounds it should have covered, not traveled at all.
Further, another weird storyline is with Panther's older brother. The movie throws a wild card by bringing in his brother who simply wants to take over the drugs by killing all other drug lords then he tells the general to fly to wherever to meet with the main people but instead we never see the general again and next thing we know, there trying to free the wife? Why?
The hotel resort sequences were bad also. How many times does Jackie have to tell his Girlfriend IM UNDERCOVER. He told her before he left, he told her there, he told her after she was pushed in the pool, but she played the dumb blonde part and opened her mouth in the elevator. Whoops. I can't stress enough how she makes this movie semi enjoyable to irritating in no time.
The final part which made NO SENSE is when they finally tell Panther there undercover, he captures them but next thing we know there not captured anymore and are trying to use the wife as bait to get back Jackies girlfriend. Why have the whole drug-lord thing of going to meet with the main guys? Wasn't Chibot supposed to be for the drugs? If there cover was blown why not just call in everyone? Michelle even said they've had no contact from Hong Kong. Why? See how confusing it is? Why drop the girlfriend off before they even have the wife? Did panther really go through all that trouble to get out of prison just to help his brother get his wife out of prison? What happened to that money Panther had promised Jackie? What about that shipment of heroine?
See the problem is there's just too much going on. Drugs, escaping wife from Prison, Military, Older brother etc. It just becomes a convoluted mess.
Overall the movie was good in action, good in most characters but the storyline got weak and confusing. Certain scenes should not have been written in and generally this film should have been put in the editing table, tested and redone but probably due to a low budget, it probably wasn't possible.
In conclusion, -1 1/2 for the girlfriend, - 3 1/2 for storyline = 5/10