Action Hero MoviesThis movie gets off to a strong start, with consecutive scenes of high quality humour, mixed with some respectable action and intrigue.
Although the pace calms down before long, the higher quality than usual of Jackie Chan movie continues to shine through for a good hour — especially with the addition of Jennifer Love-Hewitt, who was still in her prime, at the age of 23 when shooting this movie, shortly before rapidly deteriorating (or being replaced by a lookalike).
But this movie is terribly let down by the last half hour, which is little more than a chaotic mess of a nasty laboratory scene. As such I rate this movie Bang Average, even though it showed great potential in the first half — not dissimilar from Jackie Chan’s movie 10 years later, called Chinese Zodiac (aka CZ12) which showed great potential early on but went terribly down hill as the movie progressed.
True story: in the making of The Tuxedo, Jackie Chan made JLH laugh so hard she peed herself on set (according to her own confession on a Graham Norton show).