Wow. Thoughts, let me start out by saying Jackie Chan is my ultimate...guy really, not just actor, I worship the ground he walks on, such an integral part in my childhood. Life was basically Jackie Chan, Pokemon, Dragon Ball, and for the most part that still carries on. I say all that, just to drop this, I haven't seen a Jackie Chan movie released after 2009, which was Shinjuku Incident. I recommend that, it's not a Jackie Chan movie at all, it's basically the guy just acting, for someone who is conscious of his hero status, being a role model, to see him do R-rated movies, it has to be for a reason, he has to really like the material. So that movie being such a huge departure, it paid off, he knows how to cast himself basically, it's a really good crime/drama movie. He fights only once, but like any middle aged fucker does, flailing around in one scene, that's it.
I'm guessing this is rated R? I don't know, and I was thinking it's a Hollywood thing, which to be honest, Chan hasn't had a good history of Hollywood movies, and I think he would agree on that. But, I assume it's a British/Hong Kong production given the setting, the actors being primarily English, and I saw what looks to be a Hong Kong production company in a brief picture showing the production studios behind this. This reminds me of something, I'm trying to think, a movie where they clearly aged the guy because he just looks too good for his age. It's escaping me, a movie, I can't remember. The point is, Jackie Chan doesn't look like that, they gave him a more weathered look, he still looks very good for his age, north of 60 now. I didn't get an IRA impression, I thought it was modern day, and it kind of felt eerie because of recent terrorist attacks in London, wasn't there a bombing in England a few years ago?
I'm glad you shared the trailer, I probably would not have known about it, looks pretty damn good, and perhaps this will be the one that breaks the new Jackie Chan movie drought. There's really no major reason for that, I just find myself going to his older films, I mean you have a guy that's made well over 100 movies, you get lost in his filmography and don't progress into whatever he does lately. Looks to be some good ol' martial arts, but a lot of it features some slick Western style action movie stuff, acting as a more edgier version of his fluffy Hollywood outings. And Pierce Brosnan, cool. I've never seen a Bond movie actually, I was about to say that was Timothy Dalton, a former Bond as well, but I saw him in Hot Fuzz and Penny Dreadful, more familiar with him, damn they look alike nowadays being old.
Anyways I look forward to this movie, I think this would complete the old action movie star return to glory trend that has happened since Rambo 4. You had Stallone's comeback, Arnie's return, JCVD, uhm, I guess Harrison Ford, and now Jackie Chan. Yes I left out Bruce Willis, for a good fucking reason.
