Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

johnnymacbest Based on a underground comic book, Bulletproof Monk is not only one of the worst movies ever made, it's also one of the worst comic book adaptations in years. I'm not going to even go into detail how awesomely bad this film is, I'm just gonna point out the many things that it fails at: Character development, incoherent plot, no thought or ideas put into it's completely vague and banal script, very poor and uninspiring marital art choreography, horrendous acting, and pretty much everything else that makes films of this type. And I can never understand why they even bother to make this film in the first place if the end product doesn't deliver. So in all aspects, Bulletproof Monk is one of the worst comic book adaptations made. Watch it on a rainy day if you want but if the weather is nice, then you're better off doing something else in your spare time.Not worth it.

HeroOfTomorrow Before I start completely destroying this movie, let me give a quick outline: a monk becomes protector of a scroll that, when read aloud, can turn the world into either paradise or complete hell. He must guard it for sixty years, until a successor is appointed by fulfilling a trinity of prophesies. Some nazi guy tries to steal the scroll, but fails. 60 years later, the monk runs into a pickpocket, and finds out he's "the one." Nazi guy's still trying to get the scroll, though! But the monk and sir Pickpocket try to keep it safe.To me, this sounded like one of those stupid-yet-enjoyable premises, where you turn your brain off and let the popcorn do the talking. Sadly, I was sorely misled. This is TRULY one of the most badly executed action films I've ever seen, and let me tell you why.-The fight scenes were so obviously performed with the aid of wires that suspension of disbelief was made completely impossible; -The fight scenes were also so ridiculously quickly edited, that you never actually see a character perform any punch, kick or grab in its entirety: this makes them even more pointless; -Massive plot hole no.1: the monks seem to be people dedicated to good. If the scroll can bring paradise if in the right hands, why didn't one of the monks just read it? I mean, I'm an egotistical idiot, but even I would choose paradise for all the world over my own cravings;-Massive plot hole no.2: the monk mentions that if you believe, the rules of gravity don't apply: that you can "step on air as if it's a stone." First, why is he scared when he's hanging off the building in the end? according to his logic (which is made hugely important in the movie) he could just walk on air, back up to the platform. Second, if there's no gravity or air whatsoever, you could theoretically hit someone without any resistance or drag, resulting in a HUGE punch. Last, why the heck doesn't he just fly away?;-Near the end, the monk is (seemingly arbitrarily) either fainting from two punches to the stomach, completely fit, or sort of out of breath. It depends on what the situation needs him to be, making his "strength" utterly unbelievable;-The amount of Asian proverbs streaming from the monk's mouth make Morpheus's rants seem timid, almost non-existent;-Speaking of Morpheus, the amount of Matrix rip-offs in this movie go into the thousands: the whole "if you believe, anything is possible" yarn is copied almost word for word. Oh, and "there is no spoon?" Here it's "there is no gravity." Same difference;-Lastly: "Funktastic?!" Seriously? That was the moment I lost all faith in this film.To summarize, this is mind-numbingly awful, to a degree words can barely describe. So bad, I shut it off during the final, "epic" fight sequence, as my retinas could stand no more torture. Suspension of disbelief is one thing; complete disregard for the movie's own rules and a bombardment of non sequiturs equals Bulletproof Monk. And he isn't even bulletproof.Don't ever watch this.

James Hitchcock The central idea of "Bulletproof Monk", that of a gang of Nazis trying to get their hands on an artifact of great supernatural power, seems to have been lifted straight from Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark". The story opens in the year 1943 when a squad of Nazi soldiers attack a remote Tibetan monastery. (The German invasion of Tibet is an episode of Second World War history which appears to have escaped the notice of most historians). They are seeking a mystical Scroll which contains arcane knowledge which will confer immense powers upon the reader. They kill most of the monks but not the one entrusted with custody of the Scroll, who succeeds in escaping by using his martial arts skills to dodge the German bullets (hence the film's title).Fast forward to 2003. The nameless monk now reappears in an equally nameless American city. (The film was actually shot in Toronto, Canada). Although 60 years have passed, he still looks as youthful as he did in 1943, having been immunised from the ageing process by the power of the Scroll. The Scroll is being sought by a gang of fanatical neo-Nazis led by the now-aged Strucker, the officer who led the attack on the monastery, and his granddaughter Nina (who, in an ironical touch, poses as the leader of a human rights organisation). The monk, assisted by a young pickpocket named Kar and Kar's girlfriend Jade, who turns out to be the daughter of a Russian crime lord, have to thwart the evil plans of the villains.The star of the film is Chow Yun-Fat, the Hong Kong actor who also starred in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" but the two films have little else in common. The martial arts sequences in "Bulletproof Monk" are not nearly as well choreographed or directed as those in the earlier movie, and have nothing of their surreal, haunting power. The plot is just one standard action-movie cliché after another. None of the actors stood out, except perhaps Victoria Smurfit as Nina, the sort of sexy-but-evil villainess who would be at home in a Bond film. Jaime King (formerly known as James despite being female) is the latest in a long line of models-turned-actress who look as though they would be happier as a model-turned-actress-turned-model.I must admit that I didn't have high hopes for the film when I learned that it is based on a comic book, a genre of "literature" which has been responsible for some pretty poor film adaptations, and I can say that my low hopes were fully realised. "Bulletproof Monk" is a dull, unoriginal and cliché-ridden film which reveals a depressing lack of imagination on the part of the film-makers. 3/10

gatsby06 I don't think I was in the audience this movie was intended for. In the early scenes they are somewhere underground in Manhattan and a bunch of delinquent punk thugs are picking on one of our soon to be heroes, a super-pickpocket.Mr. Pickpocket is a martial arts expert. Where did he learn? Running a movie projector at a run down Asian movie theater in NYC.He bumps into the monk, literally, and steals the scroll, briefly. Next thing you know, the self-taught martial arts pickpocket is the monk's sidekick.Now IMDb says this movie is based on a comic book. So was Barbarella. I really like Barbarella. This movie doesn't have the same staying power, but it provides a couple hours of distraction.It is moderately interesting to watch the martial arts moves and try to guess how much the actors actually know. But when they go floating up into the air, defying gravity, and rotating around, I say who cares? Why do movies these days always include such reality-busting nonsense? On the other hand, my cat was glued to the set; she's actually pretty good at jumping up into the air and spinning like a top, so I guess she was interested in the technique.The only reason I decided to watch it on cable was Yun-Fat Chow. He is such a first-rate actor that it is interesting to watch him even in this fluff.This is really an Asian-American Raiders of the Lost Ark type movie. Yun-Fat Chow is really a fine actor and should get more solid roles in Hollywood. Hey, Spielberg, wouldn't Yun-Fat go well with Harrison Ford in a movie?So who is this movie intended for? I would say the teen to 20s pop-think crowd. Either that, or cats. The rest of the acting wasn't bad, but Yun-Fat is the only reason a serious moviegoer would find this movie interesting.