SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Ploydsge just watch it!

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

OllieSuave-007 This is another action-packed movie starring Jackie Chan, where he plays expert mechanic Chan Foh To who runs a small business in Hong Kong with his father and two sisters. He also helps the police weed out cars that were illegally upgraded, including one driven by street racer Warner Krugerman (Thorsten Nickel). After escaping jail, Krugerman seeks revenge on Foh by trashing his business and kidnapping his sisters, betting to race with Foh.The acting was OK and the movie features an all-star cast, including cameo appearances by Coren Yuen, Collin Chau, Fui-On Shing and Kar-Lok Chin. Anita Yuen plays a great leading lady opposite Jackie Chan and Chan himself did some of his wildest and adrenaline-pumping martial arts moves, taking on one bad guy after the other. The most wild, and what I thought overkill, action scene is when Krugerman and his goons literally upends Foh's business while he and his father and sisters are caught in the mayhem. Lots of action follow afterward, including a long and somewhat drawn-out race car scenes.There a little chemistry between Chan and Yuen, but it wasn't elaborated upon much. There are some drama here and there about Chan struggles in trying to overcoming the odds in defeating the villain and getting his sisters back. Despite much of the exciting action sequences, overall, there isn't much of a suspenseful plot in the film and the story is somewhat predictable.Grade C+

sk8monkey540 Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it, but I'd much rather watch a better Chan film, such as "Police Story" or "Legend of Drunken master." The Story was good, and the racing was an interesting Idea, but I don't think there were enough fights, and even when there were fights, bad camera work made it impossible to see what was going on. one good thing about the movie, there was one shootout scene, and it was awesome! This one is a good "Renter" but not a "Buyer." If your a fan of Jackie Chan, you need to see this movie, but don't buy it without seeing it first. This is one of the only Jackie Chan films I won't buy, unless I have a lot of money to spare, and i'm in a store with the DVD in front of me.

gridoon "Thunderbolt" is probably Jackie Chan's worst movie since "The Protector" in 1985. Yes, I know that nobody watches his movies for their stories, but the plotting of this one is unusually lame, even by his standards, and while the fight choreography IS up to his standards, the fight scenes (the whole two of them) are ruined, as others have mentioned, by the frenetic, distracting camerawork. Even the most serious Jackie Chan fans shouldn't really bother with this offensively haphazard, stunt-and-plug-filled garbage. Anita Yuen's cute and perky performance is one of the few redeeming virtues. For a good "serious Jackie" movie, I recommend "Crime Story". (*1/2)

curtis martin "Thunderbolt" is a great old-fashioned action flick in, surprisingly, the tradition of Charles Bronson as much as Jackie Chan: Bad guys out to be bad just cos they like being bad, and a highly moral good guy who starts out kind of angry and then is forced to go an a revenge rampage. With Jackie Chan style acrobatics and fighting, of course! I think it is disliked by many fans (and rumored to have been virtually disowned by Chan himself--thus the limited video release of the movie worldwide) because of this undercurrent of vicious darkness. "TB", while not nearly as violent as most Hollywood action flicks, contains much more gunplay and blood than the usual Jackie Chan fare.And it also has a main character that is rarely played as a lovable, though athletic, boob (JC's usual personna). I believe that "TB" was, in fact, the beginning of a new micro-genre of Jackie's more dramatic (though no less fun and no more believable) action movies, now continued with hi latest high gloss action extravaganza, "The Accidental Spy." I also think that many mistake the simple plot for no plot--and lets face it, many of Jackie's older movies have indecipherably complex plots (What was Project A about--quick!)(but who cares, right?)All in all--not typical Chan, but a damn good action movie!