a5c7b9f00b Jimmy Tong is just a lowly chauffeur for millionaire Clark Devlin, until Devlin has an accident that puts him in the hospital. Tong is sent back to fetch some things for Devlin and unknowingly tries on Devlin&#39;s tuxedo and finds that it gives extraordinary powers to anyone that dons the suit. This discovery thrusts Tong into world of international intrigue and espionage and pairs him with an inexperienced partner. A hapless chauffeur must take a comatose secret agent&#39;s place using his special gadget-laden tuxedo. I love Jackie Chan. I even met him once in 2003, and I&#39;m currently living in Hong Kong studying some martial arts partly due to his inspiration.<br/><br/>In a TV interview with Chan, he explained how he didn&#39;t like dialogue parts because he was too nervous and unnatural to use English. Yethis age starts to hamper his acrobatic stunt flair (and he really has been at it for a LONG time), he seems to feel he now needs to be cast in these &#39;Johnny English&#39; roles, where he becomes a Chinese clown in all things cool USA, accompanied by the latest hot female star. This time it&#39;s Jennifer Love-Hewitt, who I still don&#39;t think has any particular talents. Just nicely groomed hair.<br/><br/>The use of a &#39;magic suit&#39; is really just an Inspector Gadget derivation, and doesn&#39;t really provide any originality to the plot. The other plot which runs alongside it is the threat of a water contamination scam (I&#39;m sure the FBI were on red alert already). Actually several of Chan&#39;s films start to concern themselves with the &#39;environmental baddies&#39; - an echo of Christopher Reeves intention in his last daysSuperman.<br/><br/>All I hope to see is Chan doing his infamous acrobatics, but unfortunately these are getting fewer and fewer. I hope he doesn&#39;t continue to make these simple disposable films of similar genres just for the sake of it. (But yep, the Medallion film came out not long after and was lamentably even another step down from Tuxedo).<br/><br/>Not one of Chan&#39;s finest. Jackie Chan is fabulous, I think he&#39;s really funny, can do incredible stunts and is always entertaining but this film is not his best. It&#39;s not anything to do with him, just the other actors are a bit cheesy (not Jennifer Love-Hewitt, she&#39;s fine) and the story is pretty stupid. I guess it is a children&#39;s film, sort of, but it&#39;s got a little bit more adult humour than one expects from Jackie Chan, but I liked that.<br/><br/>The SFX aren&#39;t very good, the wire work is obvious, and whilst it is clearly a fantasy sci-fi it&#39;s just too silly to be sensible and I couldn&#39;t get involved or care anything for the characters or the disaster they were trying to avert.<br/><br/>Watch it, but don&#39;t expect too much. The jokes arefreshrotten eggs and the direction stoops to the occasion.
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