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twickes32 When the film started playing, my expectations were as high as they get with seeing a Jackie Chan be the most neighborly man in history with helping out with taking out the trash. But the moment he went into the Pen Distribution Center and BRC and George Lopez appear as spies, I knew this film was meant for me.The film portrays a retiring Jackie Chan in a victory lap of a film. Although viewed as a prime stuntman and action director in Asia, Jackie's image in the United States and modern film cannon has not been able to shake the image from the Rush Hour films.This metaimage parallels with his depiction in the film as suburban, sweater-wearing "geek" pen importer. An image which was more-so pushed onto the superstar image of Jackie Chan than imparted onto himself. And though it is important to recognize that the acceptance of this image from Chan is a large reason why he is even discussed in modern film and popular culture, it is also vital to recognize the platform which Jackie Chan has crafted by his own doing. A unique genre and character. "What you call boring, I call dependable." Words from the mother of the film echo fans of Chan's directorial work AND his modern films, seeing the incredible impact he has made in the film industry. His uniqueness was often observed as a shtick, incredible stunts which were only passed by Chan's physical age. As his career progressed, his stunt work was seen as more cheesy and expected. The films character type asks for the audience to look further into the stories of those we expect the less from. We may anticipate that we understand those who we live around and grew up with. With Chan's work, we are as short-sighted as the children waiting in the mini-van, debating how Johnny is a drone or a cyborg. We cannot stay in the parked minivan, debating the identity of the people outside the car just looking at their outer image. We must dig deeper as an audience, and understand that the superstar career's such as Chan's are made by people just like us, no matter how indestructible Jackie Chan's stunts have made him seem to be.Timelessness is not only something which can be determined and understood at first viewing. Timelessness requires close inspection, and a relationship with those who are meant to be timeless. As an audience, we dig deeper, and prior to critique, understand the people behind the films.

xsophietaylorx Jackie Chan manages to play a believable character Bob Ho however I think it's hard to believe that Jillian whom he is dating actually likes him back as it looks like there is a big age gap and from the start of the film I felt you didn't really feel the chemistry from them at all, they seem distant and Bob acts more in love then Jillian. Apart from the occasional unnecessary scene I believe the film was good it was an enjoyable experience which does give you the occasional laugh. The three children play good roles Farren however I found very irritating and not really a likable character all though she plays the role of stereotypical brassy teenager she doesn't look much older then ten herself which makes it feel like she is just not a very nice person at all a very hard to like character. Strangely I thought Billy Ray Cyrus would be a character I didn't like but he is the lovable hill billy and Bobs friend who makes him likable. Overall the film is just an OK watch it's got children humour and is a OK storyline.

loogenhausen Are people sniffing glue these days? Terrible, terrible excuse for a movie. Its not OK to excuse this as good old fashioned family entertainment. If you do, you are committing child abuse and I want to report you to the authorities. The characters are all completely unlikable, one-dimensional and above all, one hundred percent idiotic. Not one line of dialogue feels right, not one single scene worked at all. The mother is a complete imbecile and the children all deserve a punch in the face. Poor Jackie Chan needed some money, that is the only reason he was in this - and not to entertain your little dimbulb rugrats who couldn't tell the difference between a good movie and static in the first place. There are hundreds of great family films out there to expose your kids to. This is not one of them. Demand more out of your entertainment and maybe your kids won't grow up to be so stupid. If that makes you mad or offends you, then you're probably to blame.

dr-hangso Which leaves The Spy Next Door pretty much a departure from contemporary adventure flicks which tend to draw upon violence and gore in its action sequences, to keep it within a safe, acceptable rating. Jackie Chan plays Bob Ho, a man with as much personality as his any of his past heroes, which tend to be cop / secret agent belonging to the Hong Kong / Chinese police / spy agency, and here he's on loan to the CIA because of warming Sino-US relations. For years he's been helping out and solving what the Americans cannot, keeping in line with Hollywood's trend of putting China in good light, and he does so undercover and under fake glasses, living next to a divorcée (played by Amber Valletta) whom he fancies, and her three kids.They do not know his identity as his cover is as a geeky pen salesman, and like any super- hero film, has to keep his identity, abilities and tools a secret, which you know will be threatened for exposure as he grows closer to the family, wanting to take his relationship with Valletta's Gillian to the next step, and working toward seeking acceptance from her children, only for a Russian criminal to escape and threaten the world's oil reserve, and having to grapple with a mole within the CIA. Sounds complicated, but it actually isn't, really, especially when the main villain (Magnus Scheving) spends a lot of his time trying to look trendy and fashionable.If there's something that will appeal, it'll be two items. First up the opening credit montage which played like a celebration to Chan's illustrious career as an action hero, where you get to see clips from classics such as Hong Kong's Armour of God when he was at his peak, to disasters like Hollywood's Tuxedo when he sold out to the West. Then there's even some drawing from Chan's own real life experiences in his character's monologue about love and family, exploited to add certain emotional gravitas in an otherwise empty film that spends fleeting moments in its underdeveloped subplots about the adventures in parenting/babysitting, from the youngest daughter with a fetish for anything pink, the only son who's a school-bully fodder trying too hard to be cool in school, and an eldest daughter with the usual rebellious teenage attitude problem.