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Simply A Masterpiece

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Guys, let's make it clear first, I am a huge fan of Jackie Chan, but to write a proper review, I have to dismiss that entirely, right ? Don't worry, I am not gonna spoil anything "HUGE" or remarkable at all. But I'd rather disclaim myself by tagging it as "spoiler".Well for starters, the title isn't gonna hook you from the get-go, you really wonder what a "Chinese Zodiac" movie would be like, but then you read the summary and you find it controversial. Well, Chinese Zodiac is a movie that has pretty obvious morale spots throughout it, it has crime, also a reasonable plot line (except for the "Treasure Boat" thing, and the clan that rushed on them, this is not necessarily a spoiler if you haven't watched the movie), and a good ending.It has really good stunts and stuff, (altho the 'sky diving' at the end really controverted with physics), but as a whole it was really good, and we saw typical Jackie Chan risk his life doing the stunts, this alone would force me into liking this movie.What really bugged me is the backstory of the "family breakup" or whatever that was, they did not make it clear, and also the dubbing was god-awful. I didn't like the English Dub, I wish they just kept it Chinese and then I would read the English subs. You just feel like some amateur audio editing took place during the production of the English version.Bottom line is, it's not like the type of movies I would recommend, but it remains good. 6~7/10

The international thief JC (Jackie Chan) and his team are hired to steal two bronze heads of the Chinese Zodiac by the MP Corporation that is specialized in supply stolen relics to auctions. After many incidents, JC befriends the women Coco (Helen Yao) and Catherine (Laura Weissbecker) and together with his crew, they live intense adventures and betrayals."Sap ji sang ciu", a.k.a. "Chinese Zodiac", is a typical Jackie Chan Film, with a naive and funny full of action story. The beginning is breathtaking, with JC rolling and passing by an army and makes the movie worthwhile watching. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Operação Zodíaco" ("Zodiac Operation")

This is a tricky movie to critique. First of all, Jackie Chan has stated that this is his last time performing his own stunts in a movie. So do I measure CZ12 as a standalone film or do I position it as a final act in the long line of Jackie Chan's filmography over the last 30 years?Secondly, what can I expect from Jackie Chan? As a final bow, what can he do to surprise me? He is long past his physical peak (in my opinion, his top physical peak was Police Story 2). After 20 years of growing up on his films, The "Jackie Chan Action Scene Formula" is forever embedded into my brain; I almost always know how his fight scenes end. In case you do not know what I'm talking about, here it is:There's a situation where Jackie Chan is being beaten by a group of people. The fight leads to an environment/a prop.Jackie Chan using the environment/prop, creatively defeats the entire group of people.There's a joke at the end that comes from the environment/prop. End scene. So, did Chinese Zodiac 12 surprise me? I would say 40% yes, 60% no.I watched a recent interview that Jackie Chan gave to a mainland show where he said that he did not like casting TV actors in his movies because they take way too much time to get through a scene of dialogue. It seems he went the other extreme, because the dramatic scenes are played out and edited way too quickly. It's like every dramatic scene was played out on fast-forward and often there is not a lot of time to digest what's going on. Even comedic moments are neutered from the lack of time to digest them. I found this to be problematic.Narrative wise, the story takes shortcuts. Characters act out of character at times for story convenience. And seriously, can anyone really buy Jackie Chan being a heartless money-grubbing thief? I'd have an easier time buying Tom Hanks playing a bad guy than Jackie Chan.So about the set pieces. For what he can't bring physically, Chan makes it up with scale and locales. The action set pieces are fun, some stand out more than others. My favorite was the bodyblading sequence at the beginning. That was a very tense sequence watching Jackie Chan go head first speeding down a highway. The story and action scenes in CZ12 ask the audience to recall Jackie Chan's past filmography, notably the two Armour of God movies (You can call this Armour of God 3, if you like). It even drew a few gags from it and there was one set that recalled the drug factory from Dragons Forever. This makes it impossible for me to critique it as a standalone film.Part of the film's story is a piece of issue-tainment addressing the issue of museums withholding historical artifacts from their home countries. It's an issue that Jackie Chan seems to care a lot about and he presents it as an international issue. Although the film treats this issue rather lightly and it does ultimately get buried under the trappings of a Jackie Chan movie, it's nice to see Chan raising an issue like this in a film.There are many personal touches like that here, it's very possible that Jackie Chan can just be a director in the future. There was one noteworthy part of the movie where Jackie Chan actually officially apologizes to his real-life wife for the time they've missed together all these years. They reportedly see each other once a year. This moved me by the end. It was not from the story of the film or from a well-earned dramatic catharsis, but because it felt like Jackie Chan was saying goodbye to me.For anybody who's unfamiliar with Chan, it's not a great movie by conventional rules nor would it gain him any new fans. For these people, I refer you to his earlier films, check out The Drunken Master and the Police Story films.For people who grew up on Jackie Chan movies like I did, I don't think I can ever stomach the idea of Jackie Chan saying goodbye. My earlier memories of films were of Jackie Chan movies. Watching this movie, I was moved, laughed and exhilarated, all the time thinking maybe this was the last time. If Jackie Chan really chose to retire performing action, CZ12 is a good way to go out.

I saw "Chinese Zodiac", starring Jackie Chan-The Karate Kid-2010, the Rush Hour films; Oliver Platt-X-Men: First Class, Lake Placid and Xingtong Yao-this is her second film with Amor being her first.This is a milestone of a movie for a couple of reasons. First, is because this is supposedly Jackie Chan's last action movie-he said he is retiring from martial arts movies because of his age and injuries but will still make regular movies. Second, is because Jackie got into the Guinness World Record for 'Most Credits in One Movie' for this film. He has 15, including writer, producer, director, fight choreographer, music composer and, Oh Yeah, actor-the previous record was held by Robert Rodriguez with 11. Anyway, Jackie plays a mercenary that recovers lost artifacts. In this case, he is hired by Oliver to find the 12 bronze heads of the Chinese Zodiac that were stolen from the Chinese. Xingtong plays one of Jackie's team members. There are lots of spectacular stunt work and amazing fight sequences, as usual for a Jackie Chan film and the end credits have the usual bloopers and out takes. There is an added bonus at the end where they show clips from Jackie's earlier films, which I'm sure, as a tribute. It's rated "PG-13" for the violence and some partial nudity-Jackie, not his female co-stars-and a running time of 1 hour & 49 minutes. I'm a big Jackie Chan fan and really enjoyed this film, so I would buy this on Blu-Ray. It's in limited release-at the theater I saw it at, they only had one showing.