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User Reviews for: Vanguard

RomeroLivesOn
4/10  8 months ago
Not sure I like secret Chinese police setup in London as plot device, considering China have been accused of doing just that in real life. Bit tone deaf start for what tries to be a lighthearted family actioner. "Know our tongue but not our ethics" is an actual quote later on.. Again Google "ethics in China" will bring up quite an amount of depressing bed time reading. It all ends up feeling like a Chinese propaganda film. I'd have to research the many production companies than are listed in the credits to see how many are state linked but I'm guessing this got big thumbs up from Chinese government censors (notice in the scene were one male character gives another male character mouth to mouth you never actually see it - it's obviously masked each time so as not to trigger the homophobic state).

We really need Matt and Trey to do a Team China World Police soundtrack for this one... China! F*CK YEAH! "

I do like it how they spent money and time modelling CGi hyenas for Tong's (also CGI heavy) "Kung Fu Yoga" three years earlier so Tong found a way to reuse the once again. CGI lions and cars are more funny than Chan's gags in this one.

Overall a below average time waster; classic Chan this is not, but it appears he got paid handsomely for this flick so don't blame him cashing in and taking it easy in his twilight years. He's earned it.
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JPV852
/10  3 years ago
Pretty awful in just about every way. The action is tired and boring, the acting all around awful (including Chan who looked disinterested) and the CGI was laughably bad where in an age of Fast and Furious (and I know that series employs CGI as well, but some of the car stunts are real), it's inexcusable that they couldn't even do a drift without visual effects.

The plot itself is weak and the climax with the villain's ultimate plan of revenge (on a captain of a USS carrier who we only see for a few minutes) is a letdown and a weapon he paid $800M for was weak and easily destroyed. A real waste of nearly two hours. **1.5/5**
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