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1 year 7 months ago

The Defender, AKA The Bodyguard from Beijing, is a Jet Li vehicle directed by Corey Yuen, who can't help but shoot it in a vivacious way. But it's definitely in the shadow of Jackie Chan's police stories, with comedy performances, fights at the mall, and Jet playing a cop from the mainland in Hong Kong. He's there to protect a valuable witness, one that invariably falls in love with him. Bully for her, he's playing his traditional chaste monk persona (in a blazer). There's also an annoying kid, if that's an issue for you, and the music and sound design are pretty cheesy. Considering the strange editing, I would tend to blame the American "revised" edit for at least some of the problems. Question is: Is it a good action movie? Well, it's entertaining enough, but gun fu isn't Jet Li's greatest strength. He uses a lot of nice movement in those sequences, so it's not too bad, but you might get impatient for some hand-to-hand fighting, which finally happens in the climax. It's a very good fight too, tense, ferocious and imaginative. Too bad what precedes it is only okay.

6 years 1 month ago

Armoreska

Hokey crap, apart from the final fight, which is only good when there's actual fighting going on

8 years 2 months ago