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  Review by comrade_yui ½ 3

  de-aged CGI jackie chan is a crime against every artistic sensibility imaginable

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  Review by nick atkinson ★

  It seems China hasn’t quite mastered the art of CGI yet.

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  Review by Jay D 's Watching ★★½

  Reteaming Jackie Chan with director Stanley Tong (Rumble in the Bronx, etc) in an international coproduction adventure-comedy meant to play to both the Indian and Chinese markets, and....well, it's goofy and watchable and has terrible CGI in places and I can't help but admit I was entertained. It starts with a REALLY cringeworthy CGI-flashback sequence, but it does climb up from there, and while it's willing to discard subplots and character development at a moment's notice, it's also pretty shameless about its clear willingness to keep you watching and to make the entire film a fun little travelogue for Chan and co (and by extension, the viewers, up to that final Dance Sequence finale). Worth checking out the car chase and the ice cave sequence, if nothing else.

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  Review by PUNQ ★★ 1

  Kung Fu Yoga (2017) doesn't match the fun of last years Skiptrace (2016), but as long as you love Jackie Chan you'll get something out of this. It's main failure is that it tries to be too international mixing Chinese and Indian culture in a lame way. What it does bring is Jackie Chan dancing as if he was in a Bollywood movie!!! Not sold, huh? Well, I enjoyed that.

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  Review by Wood ★★

  A very colorful addition to the Jackie Chan comeback tour, Stanley Tong tries to recapture the fun of silly mystical adventure Jackie era. In Kung Fu Yoga we have Chan playing a character called "Jack Chen", just call him Jackie Chan. I like Chan as a wise Indian Jones type treasure hunter, it's a fun role.

  The big problem with this is China hasn't figured out how to do CGI yet, and there's a lot of it. All the fight scenes, fantastic, but as soon as a CGI lion shows up it loses all the magic. Because this is half the cast is Chinese, and the other half Indian they end up having to talk to each other in English pretty often, and boy, nobody on the cast is convincing at that.

  Never forget the Jackie Chan Bollywood dance sequence.

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  Review by Matty Whitmore ★

  Some people call it destiny, some people call it "meant to be" I call it the worst film I've watched in a long, long time.

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  Review by Noah Thompson ½

  Show force!

  It turns out Bleeding Steel has a more colorful but somehow more boring and worse sibling. Akin to how that film felt like a blatant attempt to try to rebrand Chan into a grey superhero soup action guy, this puts him into the globe-trotting shoes of Mission: Impossible and The Fast and the Furious while mixing in Bollywood actors and general sensibilities. I have to say, that as a premise actually does sound really cool, especially thinking about the possibility of mixing together the frenetic, well-choreographed action of China with the gloss and extravaganza of India. It's then such a shame that from the start, with an extended CGI introduction that feels like a PS3 cutscene to a…

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  Review by Will Sloan ★★

  1) Any scene where two characters have to talk to each other is a problem.

  2) Jackie's English is not improving.

  3) This has some of the better Jackie Chan fight scenes of recent years, which is not saying much.

  4) Like a lot of late-period Jackie films, it seems to have been written in collaboration with various government bodies.

  5) The (*SPOILER*) closing Bollywood dance number is cute.

  6) The tone and visual style are very much in line with CHINESE ZODIAC (Chan, 2012)

  7) Chan scholars should note that this is director Stanley Tong's first film since THE MYTH (2005) - and in fact, it is a stealth reboot/sequel to that film.

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  Review by Martin Kostenzer 🎞️ ★★½ 1

  Jackie Chan meets Indiana Jones and goes Bollywood!

  Die Story ist mindestens genauso abstrus wie bei "Bleeding Steel", viele Momente wirken absolut lächerlich, die Inszenierung so over the top, dass man den Film eigentlich nie wirklich ernst nehmen kann und von den Effekten an manchen Stellen will ich gar nicht erst anfangen.

  Aber besonders im Vergleich zu eben "Bleeding Steel" fand ich Kung Fu Yoga vor allem eins: sympathisch.

  Ja, wie gesagt, die Story ist absoluter Quatsch und bei vielen Szenen fragte ich mich wirklich, wieso diese jetzt im Film sind. Und bin mir sicher, dass mir nicht sonderlich viele Momente länger hängen bleiben werden, außer vielleicht die Bollywood-Tanzeinlage am Ende.
  Aber irgendwie mochte ich den Indiana Jones-Aspekt des Filmes und auch die Sets fand ich ganz cool!

  Natürlich ist Kung Fu Yoga kein besonders guter Film, aber immerhin für den Moment kann er ganz gut unterhalten und macht an einigen Stellenordentlich Spaß!

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★½ 3

  Probably the worst archeology-related film since The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

  Only the car chase is even watchable.

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  Review by Bowl ★

  Please! Respect History!

  Pursuing knowledge
  A dangerous profession
  Not for weaker minds

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  Review by Chris One ★★ 2

  Jackie Chan starring as, and I'm not making this up, Dr Jack Chan. He always gets so creative with the names. This is a dumpster fire of a movie with foxy females, light Indiana Jones adventures, CG hyenas getting kicked in the face and an ending that Bollywood would be proud of. If I'm making this sound cool, then you clearly missed the CG hyena getting kicked in the face part.