The picture’s debts to Raiders of the Lost Ark are large and frequently acknowledged. (Tong, whose has been gone for more than a decade since his last film, the derided Chan epic The Myth, also directed several installments in the Police Story franchise.) Pairing old-school Chan action with a globe-trotting archaeology mission, Kung-Fu Yoga scratches fans’ itch for no-nonsense, no-pretense Chan fare - in which he isn’t second-banana to a Western star, or married to a director who thinks VFX are required to make Chan’s stunts more impressive. What comes after that is much closer to what moviegoers will expect of a film reuniting Chan with his Rumble in the Bronx director Stanley Tong - a good-natured cross-cultural romp in which you can barely be expected to take any human interaction seriously, save for those in which humans smack up against each other with force. ![]() ![]() Fear not if you should walk into Jackie Chan’s latest, Kung-Fu Yoga, and worry that the martial arts legend has decided to go the Final Fantasy route: The abominable all-CG action, depicting a Tang Dynasty monk’s trip to India and some video-game-like battles that ensued, lasts all of five or six minutes and will barely be referred to again in the film.
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