The Long Road

04/27/2003 Archived Entry: "1 down, 17 to go"

So I saw the first of my summer movies last night; Bulletproof Monk.

It was actually very hard to find someone who would see this with me. Dan categorically refused to go, so I asked Jessica (2b elec eng @ UW) and she agreed to go after some discussion. She thought the movie looked ridiculous though and that it might not even have been real since the trailers made it seem like such a joke. We saw the 10:40 showing with about 20 other people.

Anyways, the movie itself is much much better than trailers would have you believe. Yes, it is silly but it was also thoroughly entertaining. Its one of those check-your-cynicism-at-the-door kind of films. We both had some good laughs but I’m not totally sure if it was at or with the movie. What surprised me the most about this film was how good Chow Yun Fat's English was. I was expecting a 3-line role like most of Jet Li's, but instead he has a pretty much full speaking role. Awesome!

Could it be that I’ve finally found someone else who’ll go see subpar action movies with me? Hope so!

Replies: 2 comments

Chow Yun Fat was also pretty good in 'The Replacement Killers.' He had a full English speaking role in that, too.

*thinks*

Well... maybe not that full. He was the strong silent type. A man of few words.

Okay, nevermind.

Posted by Romer @ 04/27/2003 05:46 PM EST

Even following that posting, I'm still very hesitant to see the movie...:P!

Posted by Daniel @ 04/27/2003 11:49 PM EST