Vanguard (2020)

Why Jackie Chan did what he did IDK. There can be many reasons, why such actor take part in this project. But my eyes... they hurts while watching this movie. Totally not worth the time was spent.

Fmovies: Vanguard has some good comedy and adequate fight scenes!

Another epic action adventure created by Jackie Chan, that's why he's the living legend. Not as dangerous as his old time, but still well designed action scene.

The scene in the rapid is stunning, you can see in the behind-the-scenes footage that this is not simply shoot behind the green screen (which everyone else will do so nowadays).

Car chase scene is common, but you can see a new perspective in Vanguard.

I'm not a Jackie Chan fanboy, but I would say you should not miss this.

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This movie, in my opinion, was a lot better than his previous collaboration with Stanley. Kung Fu Yoga was okay. If you enjoyed that, you'll definitely have a romp with this film. It's the same kind of action heavy but also goofy comedy that you can expect from some of Jackie's movies. His role here is a little more subdued, however, as he lets the other actors take bigger roles. Although he's the highest billed actor here, he plays more of a secondary role as the leader of this agency. That being said, there's enough Jackie in this movie where I don't feel misled. He definitely has more screen time than The Foreigner, another movie where he received top billing but, imo didnt appear enough in the film.

The action is great and it's definitely a good popcorn flick that'll distract you from the ongoing pandemic. It's what the world needs, really!

Remember 90's b-movies? Now this feels like people responsible for those, miraculously time traveled to 2020 and shot this. At first that was how I felt, like the movie is 20 years old. But through its runtime it just gets worse and worse eventually reaching the level of the most absurd bollywood action. It really feels like a bollywood movie with Chinese and some white actors.

The plot is of course dumb and simple. The dialogues seem to have been written by a child a decade ago. CGI is atrocious, especially car physics, oh boy this must be the most unrealistic way cars jump and roll that I've seen, not sure which was the funniest (as in most idiotic) - limo drifting in superspeed or golden suv crashing everything.

You probably can't find a movie made this century with more cliches than this one.

The editing is just the WORST. They must've outsourced it to a student or somebody's toddler made it. Haven't seen this many fade-to-blacks anywhere. There's no excuse unless they edited in in a single day. Editing is so bad that the whole movie doesn't even feel like a movie. It's more of a set of different scenes that were lazily stitched together. Not sure if the script was this bad or the editor is to blame but it often feels like a videogame, in one scene they finish planting a mine at night and it fades to black, just a second later a new scene appears when it's morning and an energetic music pumping. Like in those open world game where you come to the location at the wrong time so the world shifts to whatever proper time it has to be and then the cutscene begins. Pain to watch.

Score is laughable. They literally put on funny music when something is meant to be funny, like it's a sitcom or something. Music is all over the place, not consistency, a complete mess.

Gunshots though sound pretty cool and punchy at times.

There was one genuinely excellent Jackie-style trick when he entered the car while it was moving, reminiscent of his old ladder tricks and window jumps.

Conclusion: if you haven't seen an action movie (and any movie for that matter) in 20 years, or if you're a fan of Bollywood, or maybe if you're 10 years old, then Vanguard should please you. Otherwise, you better avoid it, even if you're a Jackie fan.

P.s. unwatchable. Can't unroll my eyes back.