The Tuxedo
Cast
Jackie Chan as Jimmy Tong
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Delilah 'Del' Blaine
Jason Isaacs as Clark Devlin
Debi Mazar as Steena
Ritchie Coster as Diedrich Banning
Directed by
Kevin Donovan
Rater #2 has description and review.
Rater #1
7/10. An interesting movie. I have to congradulate Jackie on his superb stunts. I was watching the extra stuff on the DVD, and they were talking about him doing all of his stunts. I was amazed at what he could do. Though there was 1 things he couldn't do. Dance! He was pretty good at acting in this movie.
I thought the whole plot was kind of a twist between intersting and weird. A guy trying to poison the water supply by making people dehydrated? What about a skateboard bomb? These were some things that I've never really truly heard of. But hey, anything can happen in the movies.
The camera angles were pretty good in this movie. Nothing was too far away or too close. I also thought the special effects were pretty cool. It was kind of gross to watch the people die from the dehydrating water.
The acting was actually pretty good. Ritchie Coster was an interesting villian. I felt that he was very sinister. Hewitt was good to ok. She seemed to try to get a few forced laughs, and she laughed a lot in the bloopers. "We need to get some rest, and medication." Jackie, "What?" "We'll be in communication."
All in all, it's probably a movie that I won't remember from time to time, but it was a funny movie.
Rater #2
7/10. Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man, right? So that's why
Jennifer Love Hewitt works with him. Or could it be that Jackie Chan
was in an amourous mood during casting?
Anyway, Chan plays Jimmy Tong, a cab driver. He gets a job offer to
chauffer a rich multi-zillionaire (Jason Issacs). When the car gets
bombed by a skateboard (it's actually pretty funny), Jimmy's OK, but
his employer is in the hospital. He puts on his superior's suit and
he can do crazy stunts. Take it off and he's a bumbling nothing.
Then there's this whole scheme about poisioning water and the like
(it's a clever jab at the bottled water craze) and Hewitt helps Jimmy
solve the case. Believe me folks, it's not as bad as it sounds.
In fact, it was pretty good. Chan's stunts were the best from any of
his movies and more outrageous than the Rush Hours, for sure. If he
still did all his own stunts, then I salute him. They sure were a
notch above his previous comedies. The humor, though not always high-
brow, didn't stoop to levels like Austin Powers and such. Most of the
humor was slapstick and pratfall, but it wasn't fish-out-of-water
like Rush Hour.
The plot had enough complications for an action-comedy (maybe a few
too many), but it left you feeling satisfied. Actually, the first
words out of my mouth after viewing were "That was a pleasant
diversion", which it was. Though impossibly not true to life, it
created an alternate world, so to speak, where the good guys always
win and the action is fun. Something that was odd about this movie
is, although predictable, it had my heart going a few extra beats a
minute during the ending fight sequence.
Enjoyably fun and funny, The Tuxedo is one movie that you may not
remember in two years, but you won't be able to put on a tux without
trying some of Chan's crazy stunts.
Rater #3
Has not seen movie
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie
Rater #5
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rated PG-13 for action violence.
Running time: 98 minutes
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