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The tremendous charisma of Chow Yun-Fat anchors this entertaining comic-book romp. Bulletproof Monk centres around a monk with no name (Chow) dedicated to protecting a sacred scroll that can give world-manipulating power to anyone who reads it. A hidden Nazi has been pursuing the scroll for 60 years and has finally caught up with the monk in present-day New York City; meanwhile, the monk suspects he may have found a disciple in a petty thief (Seann William Scott) who's learned kung fu from watching double-feature chopsocky flicks. Don't let the presence of Chow Yun-Fat lead you to expect much substance--this doesn't have the emotional scope of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or the visual panache of Hard-Boiled. But Bulletproof Monk is a cheerful, tightly edited, unpretentious action flick with flashes of humour, good for a mindless evening's entertainment. --Bret Fetzer
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He has no name. He protects a powerful secret. Now, to fulfil an ancient prophecy, he has found the one who’s supposed to take his place – and it’s the most unlikely candidate of all.
In this non-stop action adventure, the Monk (Chow Yun-Fat) is a Zen-calm martial arts master whose duty has been to protect a powerful ancient scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now, faced with finding the scroll’s next guardian, the Monk’s quest brings him to America. It seems according to an ancient prophecy – and to his disbelief – the Monk’s successor is a charming, street-tough wild card named Kar (Seann William Scott). As the Monk instructs Kar in the ways of a protector, the unlikely duo become partners in shielding the scroll from the evil power-hungry armies who try to take it. Amidst a flurry of high-flying acrobatics, martial arts action and quick-witted humour, this comic odd couple have to work together to keep the scroll safe.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
sean william scott is gr8!,
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This review is from: Bulletproof Monk [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
i bought this dvd as a gift for my son, having not seen it before i did not know what to expect when he put it on! but i sat and watched it with him and he thoroughy enjoyed it and so did I, and to be honest im one of the sad people that when i find a film i like, i watch a couple of times over and usually see bits of the film i had previously missed! it is a very good film and the extras on how they made the film has helped me understand other films as well as this film!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Incoherent nonsense,
By Inspector Gadget "Go Go Gadget Reviews" (On the trail of Doctor Claw) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Bulletproof Monk [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
It's a shame that Chow Yun-Fat's American movie career has been mainly made-up of underwhelming actioners such as this or Replacement Killers. Bulletproof Monk is amateur-hour from beginning to end.Chowy plays a Buddhist monk tasked with guarding a sacred scroll. The Nazis want their hands on it, but as long as he is the guardian he is immortal. The movie flashes forward from 1943 to 2003 Canada substituting for New York, where Chowy is still fleeing the last surviving Nazi. He meets up with Kar (a bored Sean William Scott) and Jade, a bad girl, and they involve themselves in 104 minutes of utterly incomprehensible trash. The film is ugly to look at, filled with drab, muted color schemes and dreary production design. The acting is appalling, the dialogue is awful, and the action poorly-edited and completely unexciting. Apparently it's based on an underground comic-book. It should have been an underground movie. Utter trash! The DVD looks absolutely terrible too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
How are the mighty fallen,
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This review is from: Bulletproof Monk [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
Chow Yun-Fat didn't make a film for three years after Bulletproof Monk, and that may just be out of embarrassment. On paper this could have been an enjoyable disposable action film, but nearly everything goes wrong. The script is poor, littered with tired cliches long past their sell-by dates and fortune cookie homilies passing for dialog, and Chow, once the most charismatic of Asian stars, cuts a rather chubby and past his prime figure, at times distressingly like a post-Star Trek George Takei doing panto. When Seann William Scott cuts a more convincing figure in an action movie, things have gone very wrong, though in all fairness to Scott he is a surprisingly likeable hero and turns in the films one decent performance. As for the Nazi villain of the piece - oh dear. Was every other actor in Germany busy that month? Even the fight scenes are pretty dire: none of the cast are martial artists, and the direction, editing and choreography do little to hide the fact, while the wire work is possibly the worst ever seen - slow, unconvincing and completely lacking in any sense of weight or gravity, it just makes the fight scenes look ridiculous. Watchable, but pretty awful, the only consolation comes from the DVD's deleted scenes, which show that the film could have been even worse.
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