It starts with a laughable, “uncanny
valley”-esque CGI war sequence between 7th century Chinese and
Indian armies; has a high-octane Dubai car chase, highlighted by a lion in the backseat, at the middle part; and then ends with a corny Bollywood production number. This is how weird Kung-Fu Yoga is.
In this film, Jackie Chan plays
another archaeologist character for the nth time (seriously, he often plays
either a cop-type or an archaeologist-type character). And the name of the character? Drum roll.
“Jack.” Very ingenious. Anyway, the plot is about Jack using his
proficiency with kung-fu and history to protect an ancient, culturally-significant
treasure from a man named Randall (Sonu Sood) and his band of mercenaries. There’s more to the story than that, as well
as a bunch of other characters, but whatever.
Honestly, Kung-Fu Yoga is pretty awful – worse
than the previous Jackie
Chan fare I’ve seen, Skiptrace. The slapstick and
action scenes are fairly entertaining (especially that Dubai chase scene), as this has Jackie Chan after all. But the only real way to derive enjoyment
from this movie is to allow yourself be mesmerized by how terribly bonkers and garish it
is. Which I did for myself.
There’s a part of me that likes to indulge in
bad movies, and that part of me had a ball with Kung-Fu Yoga.
If nothing else, we got these
wonderful GIF-worthy scenes from the movie…
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