'Skiptrace'
U/A; Action, Comedy
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Jackie Chan, Johnny Knoxville, Fan Bingbing, Eric Tsang, Michael Wong, Zhang Lan-Xin, Eve Torres, Winston Chao
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Renny Harlin was once considered an ace action director but those heydays ('DieHard 2', 'Cliffhanger') are long since past or so it seems. This good-cop, bad-sidekick buddy movie that hopes to gain it's acceptance from the potential sparks that could fly between the Asian-American buddy team is yet another misfire from the Jackie Chan factory that was aiming for universal appeal but ends up losing out entirely. The action is knee-jerk stuff, the narration is incredibly boring and the drama is so tepid and lukewarm that it becomes hopelessly tedious and insufferable for all through it's never-ending (that's what it seems like) runtime.