The script is just one huge convoluted backstory being endlessly exposed via terrible clunky dialogue. There's so much of it that the film is covered in jarring ADR.
The fight scenes are technically impressive but overly choreographed and sterile with the actors doing a lot of the melee work but at the cost of seeming to have most of their focus on counting through the beats, barely making eye contact never mind actual facial expressions. There's no emotion or impact to it, so the viewer is left counting the beats too - a few melee moves, cut to stunt performer for wirework, cut to actor for ill-matched reaction close-up, Jackie Chan comedy moment, repeat.
I have a lot of goodwill for Ke Huy Quan, and maybe with a good script he would have shone, but he shows limited range here and this dud may well mark an end to his recent career blow-up. To be fair, no one gives a particular good performance, so it's likely not his fault.
Rating: terrible
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