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... View MoreThis is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
... View MoreIt is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
... View MoreReview: This film was awful! The acting was terrible, along with the badly written script and the storyline was ridiculous. Its about 3 small-time robbers who take on one last job after losing all of there hard earned loot. Jackie Chan plays Thongs, whose the compulsive gambler out of the group and Louis Koo plays Octopus who likes living the lavish life but soon runs out of cash. The last member of the group Michael Hui (Landlord), saves his loot but it all gets stolen from his house so he convinces his partners in crime to take on a big job, to steal a baby for a big time crime boss. The baby turns out to be his grandson and after losing his son at the beginning of the movie, he wants the only connection to his son that is left. Whilst kidnapping the baby, Landlord gets captured by the police so the other members of the gang decide to wait for him to be released before they go ahead with the deal. The crime boss starts to get impatient and he sends out his thugs to retrieve the baby and kill the kidnappers. While all this is going on, the police is hot on the robbers tail because of there bad reputation as small time criminals. Anyway, Thongs and Octopus become close to the cute little baby and they decide that the babies safety is worth more than the hefty payday. As usual, the action scenes were impressive but the comedic storyline and weak acting was pretty poor. You can tell that it was made for the Western market because of its funky soundtrack and modern look but I found it to be more silly than entertaining. The baby is extremely cute and I can completely understand why these small time crooks got close to him but the far fetched action scenes contributed to this lengthy, poor movie. Anyway, I didn't enjoy the movie that much but the action scenes weren't too bad. Disappointing!Round-Up: This movie was directed by Benny Chan who brought you the great Shaolin, in 2011. He also directed Who Am I, which also starred Jackie Chan and Big Bullet, Gen-X Cops, New Police Story, Divergence, Invisible Target, Connected, City Under Siege and the White Storm. I'm not familiar with a lot of his other projects but he does have a high reputation in the Oriental market. I didn't find the comedy in this movie that funny and it did seem to drag after a while but the director did introduce other elements which made it barely watchable. At the end of the day, it's just another comedy based action movie from Jackie Chan but on the plus side, it did make back it's money at the box office so there's obviously an audience for these type of movies.Budget: $17million Worldwide Gross: $20.5millionI recommend this movie to people who are into their action/comedy/drama movies with there usual Jackie Chan epic stunts and a Three Men and a baby type concept. 3/10
... View MoreEschewing his sparkling-clean good guy image, Jackie Chan teams up with Louis Koo (THROW DOWN) in ROBIN B HOOD to kidnap a child. There are, of course, the requisite action scenes involving some bone-crushing full contact martial arts and at least one clearly death-defying stunt by Chan: he descends the outside of a towering apartment building by dropping from one air conditioner to the next, all the way to the ground. It's a breath-taking descent and is reason enough to see this one, but the real surprise are the characters. There's an elderly woman whose child was stillborn who walks around cuddling a lifesize baby doll. It's a genuinely sad thing to see. The kid, too, steals his share of scenes. And let's not forget the horrors of diaper-changing: you'll never see this kind of thing, done this way, in a Hollywood movie- I guarantee it.
... View MoreI have to say that this movie was lots of fun ^^ I laughed so much at it :) It definitely is one of Jackie Chan's movies , and though some people say that Jackie's movies have decreased a lot recently (regarding the content of the movie ...plot bla bla) in my opinion it hasn't because I think a movie it's not all about the complexity of the action and the plot's originality and the way in which it makes you uncertain of what's going to happen next. In my opinion a good movie must be able to capture the viewer's interest and make him concentrate on the action so much that he doesn't start to wander "oh what's going to happen next?" or to say "ah yes and now's another happy ending" . I mean when I watched the movie I was so busy laughing and paying attention to what's happening that I didn't care about the plot like "yea baby is kidnapped by bad men who eventually turn into good men and bla bla save the day" So what I'm trying to say is that the movie is worth viewing as long as you don't really care about the story and only care about laughing and paying attention to all the funny fighting scenes that Jackie always makes . I love those the most in his movies ^^
... View MoreI saw this movie yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.Traditionally, Jackie's movie is all about the action and nobody cares about the story line.So imaging my pleasant surprise to see this movie. It has a nice blend of action, comedy and a heart warming storyline. This movie tells the story of how caring for a baby turned a pair of bad crooks into good. Action = 9/10 Comedy = 10/10 story = 9/10Overall, I am giving it 9/10. It's almost perfect.Bottom line: Even if you don't care about the storyline and/or don't like it, the movie is still enjoyable.
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