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good back-story, and good acting

Absolutely the worst movie.

Absolutely brilliant

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Skiptrace is the most bizarre production I have seen in a long time: an action comedy produced by China, co- starred by the legendary Jackie Chan and the ex-Jackass Johnny Knoxville, and directed by the Finnish Renny Harlin, who seemed firmly established in independent cinema after having been involved in some Hollywood blockbusters. I can't even imagine the meetings between the producers of this project: "We got the director of Deep Blue Sea!" "Um..." "He has worked with Sylvester Stallone and Freddy Krueger!" "Um..." "And we also have the star of Jackass! North American teenagers are going to be fascinated!" And more phrases like that, I guess. The final result is an insipid and tedious film, despite Chan's charisma. And what about Knoxville? The question is irrelevant; the producers only needed a North American face in order to correctly imitate other North American imitations of Asian action films (Is it clear?) in which Chan worked, such as The Tuxedo and Rush Hour. Chinese super-star Bingbing Fan plays the retrograde damsel in distress role, something which is even more frustrating because she's a solid actress, and she has also displayed quite a physical ability in other films; but in Skiptrace, she's just a pretty face to flirt with Knoxville and become a hostage who must be saved. So, Skiptrace is basically a tourist pamphlet with bad jokes and null suspense. Some years ago, Chinese Zodiac was much better as a Chan movie, and well... I'm not even going to compare Skiptrace to the most famous films in which he worked, such as The Legend of Drunken Master, Armour of God or (my favorite one) Police Story 3: Supercop.

Jackie has announced long ago that he would stop filming kung fu style movies. After all he is already 62 as of writing of this message. The man has given us 4 long decades of high flying, high profile, death defying self stunt magnificence. But audience just can't let go... let the man be... he is old... injured many times over. Let him enjoy the other genres. This movie was not about fighting, most certainly not. This movie was about showing magnificence of mongolia and china alike through cinematic and cultural traditions. This movie literally gave everything it had to give. Sure sure... this could have been a remake of rush hour... but that time has passed and Johnny is the new kid on the block. Their on screen chemistry is pretty good and while premise of the movie was silly some of the times... well most of the time... and while acting was cheesy and characters were unbelievable... it was not about that. It was about 2 men going on a cross country trip by plane, train, automobile, on foot on a raft, in a weird looking car, on top of a donkey, by mule, clinging to a pig float and generally giving us sides of mongolia and china that we normally do not see. I give this movie a well deserving 6. It could have gotten a 10, have they stripped all the irrelevant mumbo jumbo from beginning and the end. This movie would have been a success just showing a road trip.

This has been done in Hollywood a decade ago, which is now considered as outdated, but Hong Kong and Chinese are doing it now. What I meant was Jackie Chan teaming up with an American star. Though all those films are almost same, like running and chasing and stunts with the comedic sense. Yep, totally boring, nothing new it it, except different locations and the cast. The Russians addition was new, but in the end it became a joke. That's funny to say, because it is a comedy film.If you are familiar with Jackie Chan's Hollywood films, then you already know the 90 per cent of this film and for the rest, you have to watch it. A cop from Hong Kong seeking a revenge for his partner's death, so now he has to find and rescue the American con man who stuck with the Russias gangster for the evidence he needed to put the criminal gang boss behind the bar. The adventurous journey they take across the Mongolia is what the film is based on.This film is specially made for the yuan market, so don't bother if you don't carry yuan in your wallet. Maybe Renny Harlin's worst film I've ever seen. Jackie Chan is the only reason to watch it, but surely you have seen better films of his than this. Johnny Knoxville was just okay and the rest of the cast does not look good. Rewatching 'Shanghai Noon' and 'Rush Hours' films is better than this, so I'm not in favour of it.4/10

Skiptrace finds Jackie Chan trying that odd Chinese-American combination yet again, but unfortunately he fails miserably this time. Johnny Knoxville fails to fire up that natural flair of comedy that Owen Wilson had so effortlessly aced in the Shanghai franchise. Unfortunately the movie falls like dominoes owing to a bland plot and an unvarying disconnect that rips apart whatever Skiptrace was trying to walk upon.DIRECTION OF SKIPTRACE The direction of Skiptrace is absolutely pathetic. Renny Harlin isn't really sure what he wishes to show. You can see that confusion in his frames. Or maybe that element of clarity is missing from his head that clouds his judgment. Editing will compel you to shake your head. It is that bad.Humour is quite confined, always acting contrary to our expectations. With Johnny Knoxville in the vanguard to stay as the primary entertainer of Skiptrace, expectations naturally shot up high. But Johnny made it all mediocre. You keep waiting for something funny, but then the wait becomes punishing.The plot is forced upon to entertain a deliberate road trip. You feel the emptiness of it all when you see nothing substantial emanate from any corner. We are always heading towards something, so that's kind of good.Chan and Knoxville create an okay chemistry though it is hard to compare their pairing up with the likes of what you have seen over the years.NOSTALGIC OLD TIMES Gone are those days when Jackie used to be young, and his fight scenes used to be the ogling kind. It always sends me back in time, when I try to remember all of his arresting fight sequences from the likes of Project A series, Who Am I, City Hunter, Armour of God and Police Story franchise. He still manages to entertain us nevertheless, but the quantum of combat bits in his movies has seen a gradual decline over the years. Maybe old age is doing that to him. It is in a way sad, because even when his movies didn't bank on a good storyline, he used to still uplift them with his jaw-dropping brawls. We miss that profusely.Now that I think of it every Jackie Chan movie is ending up like that. Maybe for a change he should use a stunt double so that he doesn't hurt himself delivering those parkour like stunts, as is quite evident from his end credit scenes.THE FINAL VERDICT Skiptrace makes for a passable watch, preferable when you are fine with your brain taking a holiday for a change. You cannot help but think, it is time Jackie Chan amp up his entertaining quotient, by partnering up with either Owen Wilson or Tucker again. At least that magic was working for him.