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...novice performers overplay their roles with “look-Ma-I’m-actin’ glee,” while the veterans are simply badly directed. Keitel identifies part of the filmic problem when he yells Travolta that he can’t just come into the music business and expect everyone to fall all over themselves for this former wiseguy, because everyone in this business is a wiseguy...
...mail the senior members of the Harvard Corporation. Senior Fellow James R. Houghton can be reached at houghtonjr@corning.com and the next most senior member, Hanna Gray, can be reached at hgray@uchicago.edu. Both can receive mail at the Office of the Governing Boards, Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA...
...movie is a sequel to 2000's highly successful Tokyo Raiders, by director Jingle Ma, whose name appropriately evokes the sound box-office cash registers were making this Lunar New Year season throughout the Chinese-speaking world. In Tokyo Raiders, Ma moved the standard Hong Kong action-comedy plot (cop, girl, gangsters, slow-motion spin kicks) to Japan. But Tokyo is so five minutes ago compared with red-hot Korea. Time for a remake. Leung and his fellow Tokyo cast members are sent packing to Seoul...
...game between Leung and Jen in Seoul, with pillow-lipped, helium-voiced JJ (Shu Qi) as a third thief who fetchingly gets in everyone's way. As the story unfolds, the plot ties itself into some complicated knots, despite the best efforts of director Ma, who has the characters stop punching and kicking each other every five minutes or so to explain what's going...
...Presumably these expository time-outs also give the actors a chance to catch their breath between nearly nonstop action sequences. Ma, who worked with Jackie Chan on some of the superstar's best films, can shoot fight scenes that dodge and weave between ridiculous and dangerous. The 42-year-old Leung is no Jackie Chan (alas, neither is Jackie Chan these days), but he moves with a swashbuckling rhythm. Shu bats her eyes ferociously. Ma's easygoing balance gets a bit lost by the big finale. We won't say what happens, but it includes the line...