![]() Aarif Rahman is reasonably good as a rival archaeologist and treasure hunter named Jones – no guesses for where that name originated – but in all honesty he feels like his character should be starring in his own film. Chan successfully manages a few laughs – literally nobody else in the cast does the same. The film generally has a disturbing tin ear for humour, which is a serious problem since it is supposed to be an action-comedy. ![]() Digitally created animals, including elephants, snakes, hyena and a vomiting lion proliferate, and never convince. A fully animated prologue scene looks like something from a PlayStation game. That CGI is one of the film’s biggest drawbacks, with Tong banking visual effects cheques his film cannot afford. There are a few moments where the inventiveness and cleverness of Chan’s action choreography jumps out, but in the main it is a fairly boring string of CGI-enhanced set pieces. The storyline is relatively nonsensical, and the action comes in fits and starts. Kung Fu Yoga is a film 25 years out of date. With a team of associates he travels from China to Dubai and finally to India, all the while plagued by Randall (Sonu Sood) the descendant of the Indian warlord who tried to steal the treasure in the first place. It killed his 2012 Armour of God revival Chinese Zodiac stone dead now it does the same to Kung Fu Yoga.Ĭhan plays Jack, a prominent Chinese archaeologist persuaded by a mysterious Indian woman named Ashmita (Amyra Dastur) to track down and recover the legendary Magadha treasure – believed lost somewhere along the Chinese-Indian border during the Tang dynasty. Where he seems almost guaranteed to fail is in those films that attempt to recapture the tone and style of his earlier hits. In recent years he has excelled in projects where he has found new avenues, whether that is performing a mentor role to an ensemble cast in Railroad Tigers or attempting straight drama in 2007’s Shinjuku Incident. As fans of Jackie Chan we didn’t care, as the outstanding and inventive stunt work more than compensated for shortfalls elsewhere in the film.Ĭhan is now 62, and his days as the world’s most talented stunt performer are behind him. The characters were wafer-thin and the acting fairly ripe. ![]() The storylines were simplistic and derivative. The thing that few people discuss about a lot of Chan’s earlier popular hits such as Armour of God and Rumble in the Bronx is that, script-wise, they were pretty terrible. It is being widely touted as the first-ever Chinese-Indian co-production, and is Chan’s big theatrical release for the Lunar New Year. ![]() Before 2017 is out he will be starring in Martin Campbell’s action thriller The Foreigner, but this week he also stars in Stanley Tong’s Kung Fu Yoga. It was only weeks ago that his period action comedy Railroad Tigers was in Australian cinemas, and that came a few short months after the release of the more contemporary Skiptrace. Jackie Chan seems to be everywhere at the moment. ![]()
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