REVIEW: Kung Fu Yoga
Jackie Chan should be studied in media courses at university. He is by far the biggest example of a downfall by a global star. He made action masterpieces in the 80s and 90s. Now he is making absolute rubbish like his latest Spring Festival release, the Chinese-Indian adventure comedy Kung Fu Yoga . Directed and written by Stanley Tong, a man once admired for action classics like Police Story 3: Supercop and Rumble in the Bronx , the film travels across China, the United Arab Emirates, and India, following Jackie (ingeniously named "Jack") and his group of archaeologist-explorers (including Indian Princesses played by the beauties Amyra Dastur and Disha Patani) to hunt down a jewel that will show them the path to the ancient treasure of Magadha. Much like Chan's previous explorer flick, Chinese Zodiac (also written by Tong), this film is very, very silly. And lazy. So much of the film uses visual effects (the entire pre-opening-credits scene shows an animated C