The Tuxedo (Full Screen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Tuxedo (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Five-star entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
Tuxedo is a great DVD. While the picture is good and the music unspectacular, the plot is thoroughly entertaining and the film merits repeated viewings. Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jason Isaacs make a lively cast. Although Jackie Chan does not have as many innovative stunts as in his Hong Kong films, it is considerably better than Rush Hour 1 and 2.Movie Review: Love Jackie Chan
Summary: 5 Stars
Cant get enough of Jackie and his great moves. The stunts in the movie are very cool, and its also very funny. I loved the movie and have watched more than once since buying it. Great entertainment value for the dollar.Movie Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie is hillarious jackie chan does it again. jackie is awesome. i recommend this movie for every oneMovie Review: "You killed James Brown!"
Summary: 4 Stars
Off the top of my head I can't remember any other movie in which Jackie Chan's character actually doesn't know any martial arts. In the action comedy, THE TUXEDO, he plays Jimmy Tong, a New York cabbie who's crushing on the girl in the fashion store except that Jimmy's got zero skills in how to sweet talk a woman. Off the top of my head I also can't remember another movie in which Jackie rocks a soul patch (or a Hooters shirt).
Jimmy gets an opportunity to pick up some pointers when he becomes the chauffer to a suave, posh Englishman (Jason Isaacs). And there's even more to this Englishman, Clark Devlin, than a silky knack with the ladies. A bomb detonation renders Clark Devlin comatose. Jimmy soon finds out that his boss is also a dashing international spy. Earlier, when Jimmy wondered about Devlin's oh-so-smooth ways, Devlin offers him this nugget: "Trust me... 90% of it is clothes." Clark Devlin had meant that literally.
Jimmy stumbles onto a multi-million-dollar tuxedo wired with experimental micro-circuitry which enables its wearer to perform dazzling feats. Jimmy dons the tuxedo (labeled as a "Tactital Uniform Experiment") and he suddenly metamorphoses into the world's most accomplished secret agent. The unfolding circumstances have Jimmy assuming Clark Devlin's identity, just in time for him to get drawn into a mogul mastermind's twisted plan to monopolize the water bottle industry by poisoning the global water supply.
Meanwhile, Jimmy finds himself supervising a beautiful scientist-turned-rookie operative (Jennifer Love Hewitt), never mind that he doesn't know international espionage from jump. Both leads seem to enjoy each other's company. And, in fact, the immediate sense I got from watching Jackie interact with Hewitt is that he's half infatuated with her. Jennifer Love Hewitt, by the way, undertook three months of training to lend believability to her character. She pulls off her action scenes. As "Delilah Blaine," Hewitt's natural bubbliness is tamped down, this characteristic only surfacing in the outtakes. In the outtakes, she can't stop cracking up, most of this good-naturedly at Jackie's expense.
Going by what's revealed in the Making Of the THE TUXEDO documentary, Jackie was nervous about the dance sequences and, in a role reversal, Jennifer Love Hewitt - who received great encouragement from Jackie during her fight scenes - was the one who sort of took Jackie under her wing for his dance routines. One showcase moment features Jackie attempting to perform James Brown's act during a gala function (Jackie had inadvertently knocked out James Brown just as the Godfather of Soul was about to go onstage). Luckily, the tuxedo has a "Shake Booty" option. He's introduced as the Last Emperor of Soul.
I think, 3.5 out of 5 stars for this one. I'm giving THE TUXEDO higher marks than THE MEDALLION because his character here clearly doesn't have martial arts training, and it takes the hi-tech tuxedo to turn the simple cabbie into a formidable fighter. In THE MEDALLION the off-kilterness lies in Jackie's character already being this formidable kung-fu expert, so there's this redundancy in the magic medallion's elevating his martial arts skills to supernatural degrees because, even before the medallion, Jackie's character had already been acquitting himself very well. Tuxedo-fu beats out medallion-fu, in terms of story context. THE TUXEDO may not have the intensity and energy and eye-popping real fighting found in Jackie's earlier Hong Kong thrillers, but it's pretty entertaining in its own right because Jackie and Jennifer are both extremely likable and they seem to be having fun. But you may have to excuse the vapid plot line.
The DVD's bonus features ain't remarkable: a blooper reel (consisting predominantly of a giggling Love Hewitt); the HBO documentary "Tailor Made for Jackie Chan" which goes into the making of the film; deleted & extended scenes; cast & filmmaker bios; production notes; and the theatrical trailer.
Movie Review: Silly, But Fun & Fast-Moving
Summary: 4 Stars
If you enjoyed Jim Carrey's "The Mask," you might enjoy this Jackie Chan film. It has a similar storyline but instead of a mask, it's a suit someone puts on and the hero receives supernatural powers.
It's all extremely silly but with a lot of slapstick and outrageous scenes, you are going to get some great laugh-out-loud scenes and some really stupid not-funny stuff....especially in a Chan movie. To me, the good stuff in here outweighed the bad. Jackie is an amazing man, with the stunts he can do at his age.
Meanwhile, Jennifer Love Hewitt is easy on the eyes, especially showing us her body, but her character in here is pretty lame. The whole movie is pretty brainless but - if you know that in advance - it's a fast-moving 99 minutes and a good diversion from the seriousness of life.