Brazenly-amusing attempt to present a parody of the Jason Bourne and 007 movies that is a little ahead of its time because the public has yet to tire of such films. Because of this, the film has little to actually parody and so ends up looking more like what it attempts to parody than a parody, since it lacks any genuine retrospective insight, a la Blazing Saddles or Austin Powers.
The other major problem with this movie is that it lacks any real sense of comedy or timing - and the chemistry between the two leads is as weak as their scripted characterization. The sort of fun that the best of Jackie Chan's output contains is seriously lacking here - and it shows. Films like this are starting to look like Hollywood making the kind of movies that non-Americans would make if they were trying to make a Hollywood-style movie: Hollywood trying to outdo itself by mimicking itself!
There are no themes to speak of and the plot lacks credibility and this film is only saved from complete perfidy by its reasonable sense of fun.
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