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The MM - "Jackie
Chan is a poor, shy taxi driver who gets hired as a chauffer for
an international secret agent. Chan makes another vertical career
move after the secret agent dies, when he dons a computer enhanced
tuxedo and assumes the secret agent's identity. The intelligence
agency that the self appointed Chan now works for, needs to foil a
plot which would pollute the world's water supply. To this end, the
agency decides to have Chan team up with a top biological scientist,
Jennifer
Love Hewitt. Director Kevin
Donovan (III) then packs all the action sequences he possibly
can into the films ninety nine minute running time. It's hard to
decide which is more unbelievable. A tuxedo that can turn a cabbie
into a secret agent, that Jennifer as a brilliant scientist, or that
our national security is defended by people who engage in such inane
behavior. Jackie Chan is charming and Jennifer is beautiful but the
films entire premise is so ridicoorous that if becomes almost
impossible to enjoy this film.
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