Too much seriousness can be fatal to a picture like this one, since it impedes the efficient delivery of dumb laughter and easy thrills.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The fight scenes in Bulletproof Monk are not as inventive as some I've seen (although the opening fight on a rope bridge is so well done that it raises expectations it cannot fulfill).Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The story's entire foundation is based upon a plot hole so gargantuan that anyone not suffering a brain cramp will identify it at once.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Mark Jenkins
One of those motley movies that borrows from just about everywhere.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Action star Chow Yun-Fat's latest is as thin as the buzz cut he sports in Bulletproof Monk.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ed Park
Some reliably vertiginous fight sequences (rope bridge, rooftop signage) and modest flight experiments liven up the mix, but for all the leads' individual appeal, they seem to occupy slightly different films.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Began life as a comic book, and screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, ever respectful of that lineage, have not allowed the film's dialogue or plot points to rise above their cartoonish origins.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: David Hiltbrand
The worst sin is the way the film borrows and corrupts the gravity-defying action style of Yun-Fat's international hit, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
As ungainly in its jammed-together East-meets-West-ness as Steven Seagal in a yoga pose.Read Full Review »
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