What a blast this movie is! It's Pod People meets Swordsman with an Umbrella meets Meatballs 2 meets Undefeatable meets Indiana Jones.
Fight sequences are served in generous portions, with exceptional stunts from all the performers, particularly the reliably exhilarating Cynthia Rothrock. I wish I'd seen this with an audience, because some of her work here would be sure to get applause. Her sequence with Wong Mei-mei is the highlight of the film.
Wong Jing plays the stock (and stocky) comic relief, earning a few chuckles with his antics. The movie includes some other jolly sequences that are genuinely funny.
The last fifteen minutes borrow liberally from Raiders of the Lost Ark, but we can call it even since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has the same outcome of returning an artifact to a stranded alien in suspended animation.
Fight sequences are served in generous portions, with exceptional stunts from all the performers, particularly the reliably exhilarating Cynthia Rothrock. I wish I'd seen this with an audience, because some of her work here would be sure to get applause. Her sequence with Wong Mei-mei is the highlight of the film.
Wong Jing plays the stock (and stocky) comic relief, earning a few chuckles with his antics. The movie includes some other jolly sequences that are genuinely funny.
The last fifteen minutes borrow liberally from Raiders of the Lost Ark, but we can call it even since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has the same outcome of returning an artifact to a stranded alien in suspended animation.