This movie is so bad, we stopped watching after 20 minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Jackie Chan in his slapstick/kung fu movies, such as Rush Hour or Shanghai Noon.
But to me, he needs a sidekick like Owen Wilson.
As a German, I have watched dubbed movies all my life. This one, though, was extremely strange to watch, as it is an obviously Chinese movie, but all characters had the fattest American accents, except Jackie Chan’s. He dubbed himself, accent and all. This works where he plays a Chinese in America, but not when everybody is of the same origin. He should either have had himself dubbed by an American, or all the other actors should have had Chinese accents, too. This was confusing and distracted completely from the movie.
The story was jumping from location to location, the characters’ behaviour was unbelieveable and sometimes just plain dumb, so I couldn’t find one to identify with and care about.
The princess was way too young to be Chan’s love interest (I just can’t buy that anymore), if that’s what she turned out to be.
Not even the admittedly amazing fight scenes kept me going, as, after the third, it was a bit like “more of the same” Jackie Chan fight magic. Yawn.
Sorry, Jackie. Try again.