The Story
We all remember Rush Hour, it was a good, funny, action movie, Skiptrace is no different, with only a few things that you will need to overlook.
Following an up stick cop Bennie Chan (Jakie Chan) obsessed over doing his work and bringing down the notorious crime boss Matador, after his late partner's death, Bennie was asked to protect his daughter Samantha (Fan Bingbing).
Samantha gets into trouble and is blamed, that she was helping a man steal from the casino and the only way they will let her go is if she finds him, informing her uncle over the mess Bennie sets out to find this man before they harm Samantha.
Connor Watts (Jhonny Knoxville) an American Conman that cheats casinos in Cina after he was banned from American Casinos, as he was doing what he does best the Russian Kingpin tracks him down for cheating his daughter and has to marry her.
Bennie rescues Connor from the Rusian Kingpin, where Connor burns his passport rendering them to travel all the way back on foot as well by car.
The journey was action packed with some comedy in the scenes of the movie, but do not expect this to be nearly as good as Rush Hour, very similar yes it is, and not to get me wrong the movie is good, Skiptrace has a good solid story, but the comedy is just not there like it was in a few other movies starring Jackie Chan or Jhonny Knoxville.
At the end of this long journey, they split up and like many other movies end up reuniting again to take down Matador, where Samantha will meet someone that meant a lot to her once, to avoid spoilers I will leave it at that.
My rating and opinions
The movie feels like it takes ages to start, and frankly, the comedy will make you laugh if you find things funny easily, other then that there might be a few giggles.
Some better music could have been added, it's very dull and slow and with good music, that alone could have made a big difference in this movie.
The movie starts slow and maintains a sluggish speed throughout the entire movie run time, the action is also filmed most of the times at bad angles.
I found the movie filled with action, though I am unable to rate it very high, due to all the drawbacks, at least all stunts were performed in the flesh on Chan's side so don't expect much cheap CGI effects, which is a major plus.
Movie run time:107 min
Director: Renny Harlin
Language: Mandarin and English
My Rating: 4/10
IMDb Rating: 5.9 / 10
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