Here is a good example of a movie that is more fun than good. Fun in a goofy+action kind of way. The idea is a fatherly neglected millionaire playboy's (Seth Rogen) father dies and in an act of rebellion he and his new found friend Kato (Jay Chou) go to deface the monument and end up thwarting a criminal act, but get noticed for the vandalism not the heroics. So they decide to take to the streets as heroes posing as villains. Rogen plays this character about as good as you can play it as an action comedy. He is his normal funny self, but the situations do not fit the normal comedy that he does. So at times he feels out of place to me. A shinging point in this is Chou. Now he is a long shot from the master that was Bruce Lee, but I do feel he does the role justice. He and Rogen's actions scenes work well together where Rogen it terribly terrible and Kato swoops in to save him with his super senses. So the action (car chases, explosions, and fisticuffs) were satisfying. A quick funny addition to the beginning was James Fanco as crime boss Clear. The villain, who is racing up my bad guy charts is, Christopher Waltz. Some of you may know him from his undeniably evil role in Inglorious Bastards. He plays a goofy yet vile crime lord and again ratchets up my ranks of favorites because of his noticeably dark subtext. This movie does one thing well entertain. It does the action and serious without taking itself to serious which makes it work, and gives enough laughs satisfy.
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