Kung Fu Yoga (2017)

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Best movie of this year hands down!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ever have a movie that you were just getting to the point of turning it off because of the complete lack of intrigue, or credible plot? This is that kind of movie, until the main character "borrows" an SUV from a rich arab in Dubai for a high speed chase and finds a lion is sitting the back seat.As Jackie Chan gets older, he tends to be embracing more projects that are family friendly, and are about preservation of culture. Aimed squarely at the Indo-Chinese family and early teen market, Kung Fu Yoga spends more time lecturing on preserving cultural history than telling a good story. There is a story there, not much of one, but it is there, loosely tied together by very simple connecting conversations as memorable as, "Hey we need to do X... Ok, go". Maybe it's lost in translation, but this is hard to believe when half of the movie is in english, while the other random half of the dialogue is in chinese.The plot follows that an ancient grudge over treasure ended in a mystery, and so a chinese archaeologist is hired to find it with his wonder skill - technology. They literally throw every cool camera gadget at you, drones, gopros, steady cams, wireless cameras etc... It's the youtube generation. Soon the cast is swept up in a 160 million dollar conspiracy to reclaim artifacts with a disputed ownership and a bad guy who's, kinda bad... but kinda nice... I mean, he's kinda a hunk.The production value isn't setting a very high bar, with poor acting, terrible script writing but there are the elaborate sets which are for stunted action performances that are more about showcasing cultural styles of fighting than actually following any reasonable progression. Curiously, the highest production value is found in a decent music video at the end of the film - which I actually recommend.Conclusion: With a poorly conceived plot, terrible writing and only a few jokes that didn't fall flat, this movie isn't going to make any memories for brilliant film making. Where it does work, is in its family-friendly, silly humour for young minds, and for its nod, albeit goofy nod, to the religious traditions of India.

This film is quite possibly one of the worst ever created. The story is non-sensical and often seems written last-minute to fit around whatever nonsense or unnecessary stunt the producer and 'star' Jackie Chan wanted to include at that moment. Some reviews seem to praise the cinematography, however I saw no discernible skill either behind or in front of the camera. The acting is dreadful, even below amateur level for the most part, and the editing is just as atrocious, hindered even further by cheap gags and untidy special effects and cgi that often sticks out like a sore thumb even in this catastrophic attempt. The film may see various exotic locations over the course of its painful 107 minute run-time, however even that potential positive only serves to make the actual film and everything else about it seem even worse in comparison. One particular scene involving a car chase sums up this film; overly long, choppily edited, terribly acted (Chan's constant indistinctive wailing especially) and awful special effects (numerous virtually cartoon-level animation cars flip unnecessarily, as well as an unexplained and unneeded clearly and poorly animated lion). Save yourself the time and don't watch.

Jackie Chan has been on a roll of late, churning out film after film in a short space of time. This one's part of an unconnected trilogy that includes RAILROAD TIGERS and SKIPTRACE. Of the three, SKIPTRACE is the only one I can say that I truly enjoyed; the rest have been middling or, in the case of KUNG FU YOGA, pretty bad. Jackie plays his reliable self here and there's an extended cameo from old buddy Eric Tsang, but those are the only good things about it.The plot heavily copies INDIANA JONES (a character is even called Jones) and involves the hunt for some ancient treasure in India. It's a bit like THE MYTH, but not as good. The only bit I liked was the photorealistic CGI historical back story at the opening of the movie. The rest is a mish mash of really bad attempted comedy scenes involving the young cast members, who are all completely dreadful actors delivering stilted lines throughout. I thought the Chinese actors were bad, but they're nothing compared to the woodenness of the Indian actors. The action is CGI dominated and Jackie's fights are always sped up, which is disappointing, and the predominance of CGI animals is more annoying than anything else.

I love Jackie Chan and cannot believe he is still doing this sort of movie at his age. He is a living legend, an often used term that actually applies where he is concerned.Now for this movie .. what can I say? Well to be positive there are lots of good Jackie moments, mainly his amazing Kung Fu mixed with his excellent comedy timing. The scenery is great and some of the cast were not too bad.I think where this movie missed the mark was that it appeared rushed and disjointed. The story, right out of Indiana Jones, which Jackie alludes to for comedic effect, was OK but the ending was incredibly silly. I would have preferred if the Bollywood dance was an extra rather than the actual ending.Disha Patani,Amyra Dastur and Miya Muqi are all gorgeous and made parts more watchable. Sonu Sood was not convincing at all.The fight scenes and car chases were also overly long and too much reliance on CGI which Jackie really doesn't need.