It is easy to knock Jackie Chan's recent US-made films as being dumbed-down for the market and by feeling the need to pair him with a comic side-kick. Well as far as I can tell this film was actually made in Hong Kong, starting life as "Highbinders". From the number of deleted scenes on the DVD it was obviously then chopped into little pieces and put together again before its US release with the new title. And some idiot felt he still needed the side-kick, in this case Lee Evans, probably the worst one yet.
I assume the film was made in English since most of the cast ARE English, but who in their right mind decided to give him a love-interest. Jackie Chan, even at his advancing age, is not known for kissing his female co-star (Claire Forlani -- no comment). While it is always good fun to watch Jackie's athleticism, one could have done without the idiotic dialogue, the incoherency at times of the chopped script, and the surfeit of special effects. There was a time when Jackie was a sufficient special effect in himself; however since he was one of the film's producers he must share the responsibility for its failure.
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