The camera-work is truly superb as usual and the background score successfully manages to excite you in all those well conceived brave scenes, especially the ones involving the sky diving and volcano sequences. After few initial good moments the screenplay becomes directionless and only aims at the thrilling actions sequences thrown in to keep the pace going. A major negative feature of the film is the use of French and other foreign languages in it for a considerable period of time without any English subtitles on the screen, which forces you to keep watching it helplessly like a fool. Particularly the bunch of pirates and the girls are simply there to act as few silly characters in the film and nothing more. The fun and humor element is not the same as found in Chan's other movies and the characters are very weak, foolish and forced which are not able to impress at all.
But unfortunately, despite having some great action sequences, CZ12 doesn't turn out to be that entertaining as expected. It sets the mood right and you are all game for watching something very exciting and exceptional coming up in the next reels. It begins with a novel, exciting & well shot sequence where Chan is escaping from a mansion after completing his ongoing mission. Chan and his crew are hired to find these 12 bronze heads and the film is all about their adventurous expedition to complete the collection. The location of few of those heads is known but the rest need to be discovered and brought back.
This time the heist specialist or treasure hunter Chan takes up an assignment to deliver the 12 bronze heads of the Chinese Zodiac, stolen from Chinese dynasty's Summer Palace centuries ago. His latest offering is also made on the similar format showcasing all the essential ingredients of a Jackie Chan film but still cannot be rated at par with his earlier classics since its not that exciting as it may seem from its short synopsis. Semua berjalan baik sampai sebuah visi mengungkapkan hubungannya dengan kejahatan yang belum terselesaikan di dunia seni bela diri satu dekade sebelumnya.In the past 3 decades Jackie Chan has successfully developed and maintained his own kind of genre full of unbelievable action, acrobatic fights, thrilling moments, unlimited fun and decent humour entertaining all age groups ranging from the innocent kids to the intelligent old. Ketika Lu kemudian mulai berlatih dan tumbuh di bawah bimbingan gurunya yang ahli, dia bertemu dengan saudara-saudara yang kekal dan mendapatkan kasih sayang dari nona Qin muda di sepanjang jalan. Di era Lima Dinasti dan Sepuluh Kerajaan, Lu Ping muda melarikan diri dari kekuatan jahat Menara Shanhai dan menemukan identitas spiritualnya di saat pencerahan - atau lebih tepatnya, identitas spiritualnya, saat ia menyadari enam jiwa berbeda yang berputar melalui keberadaannya.
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