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The Accidental Spy

The Accidental Spy

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ALWAYS stay with original
Review: Why American production make HK movies look so cheap? First of all, they cut off so much scene, second of all ruin it by making look acting so dumb by English Dubb. For ANY of HK movies, ALWAYS stick with ORIGINAL LICENSED HK RELEASE. Be careful with cheap imports, boots though.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Jackie Chan's not old yet!
Review: With the few stunts sequences in Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon, many people were starting to wonder if Jackie Chan was getting too old to do them anymore. Accidental Spy proves them all wrong.

In this film he crashes through a building on a crane, fights in a turkish market naked (using whatever is availible to fight AND keep his dignity) and has an action paced car chase with a flaming fuel truck. If you like jackie chan, you'll love this film.

His stories are getting better too; while his older works were usually spoofs and obvious comedy's, his later have had less "double takes" and more emotion. Jackie really is a great ACTOR ontop of his martial arts skills (see "gorgeous")

if you want a mindless action packed Jackie Chan film, try this one out, though you may find it's not as "mindless" as you might think!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wow !!!!
Review: Wow !!!

You know Jackie is in his mid- 40's and I really thought , particularly after seeing Rush Hour 2 that he was not going quite as crazy with the stunts as he used to be and he was finally slowing down a little bit. I mean he sure doesn't have to prove
anything to anyone anymore. Besides he has enough charisma that he simply doesn't have defy serious injury with a wild stunt in every film he makes anymore.

Well about the time Rush Hour 2 wrapped, Jackie made this movie.
And it's another way over the top action packed film. The film feels closest to Supercop in that we have a big show-stopper of
an action finale. In this case that's a 20 minute action/chase scene that rips off the original SPEED but it hardly matters. Jackie does it better as usual.

The film takes a little while to get started and it sets up a pretty silly scenario that thrust everyman Jackie into the position of being a spy/hero when he really doesn't want to be.

We go from Hong Kong to Turkey and the locations we're treated to in Turkey are a lot of fun. One of the funniest action sequences in any Jackie film is in this film and involves Jackie winding up absolutely naked in the middle of the public market !!!!.

The film has a few continuity problems and a stunt doesn't quite turn out as spectacular as planned (the dock collapsing scene doesn't have the impact it should). It's subtitled but parts of the film are in Chinese, Turkish, and English.

The film was supposed to be released in a U.S dubbed version in December but I suppose the plot involving an Ebola like chemical substance made some get cold feet. It's a very silly fairly unbelievable plot like most of Jackie's films.

If you're a Jackie fan this is one of the best he's done in years. Don't miss it. !!!!!!


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