• Aug 15
• Jackie Chan’s SHINJUKU INCIDENT: Review
• Posted by Deljhp - 15/08/09 at 09:27 AM

Director: Derek Yee. Review Adam Wing.

Jackie Chan. He’s a bit of a legend really. Not many actors can claim to have a successful singing career and animated TV show to their name (David Hasselhoff’s appearance in SpongeBob doesn’t count), but Jackie has found success at pretty much every turn, and even his uneven Hollywood career has produced the occasional glimmering gem. You know what you’re getting with a Jackie Chan picture, and fans of his work wouldn’t have it any other way. But let’s face it, Jackie isn’t getting any younger and some day soon he’ll hang up his high kicking heels and put on a new pair of shoes. So the kung fu king of comedy has mastered the art of action, the art of animation and the art of music (kind of), but now he faces his biggest challenge yet. Can Jackie master the art of serious drama? Derek Yee’s Shinjuku Incident attempts to answer that question, not since Crime Story has Jackie appeared so restrained, and even then he couldn’t resist the occasional bout of frolicsome fisticuffs. What we have here is a new side to the Jackie Chan coin, all shiny and stuff, but is this what the fans are looking for? Or can it be compared to David Hasselhoff’s American comeback concert, where a certain O.J. Simpson stole the limelight, not to mention all the viewing figures in a low speed pursuit across California...Continue reading here.

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