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Movie Review: Bulletproof Monk (Hunter)

I expected a pretty typical action movie from this. And the opening scene, a particularly uninspiring battle on a bridge, made me think I was actually going to get a below-average action movie - terrible dialog, lame action, bad special effects. But once the action moved to modern day New York, I realized - it was supposed to be bad. And it was actually funny. I don't know that Seann William Scott will become known as one of the great actors of his generation, but he holds the screen well and is very likeable. Chow Yun-Fat was good as always, and they even found a way to give him a double gun pose even though he was playing a Buddhist monk. Remind anyone who complains about the script of that! And the end even featured a little twist I didn't expect. Now, I'm not trying to say this is a good movie - but it was an entertaining stupid movie after a long week at work.

It is a shame, though, that the creators of the characters got no credit in the movie, financial or otherwise. A little reminder to be careful about what you are signing, I guess.