Thunderbolt (1995)
Reviewed by: zarrsadus on 2002-07-22
Summary: Please stick to fighting Jackie, not racing
Well I just finished watching this movie and I must say that it wasn't bad, but at the same time not all that good either. The action seemed to focus more on the racing, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but for a Jackie Chan film, it should've been more action I think. Comparing the racing scenes to newer movies like The Legend of Speed may be unfair, but I wasn't impressed by the over-the-top crashes that happened nor the whole feel of the race, it didn't feel like a heated battle between two racers, the feeling you get from something like Initial D. Now for the actual "Jackie scenes" there weren't all that many. And while they did have action, I felt let down by not having any kind of music to accompany them. When Jackie was fighting in the Pachinko parlor, it was just a long drawn out fight scene with no music just the sounds of things breaking... making the whole scene seem dull and drawn out. Overall a mediocre film trying to be too many things at once. Luckily for us Jackie stuck to his fighting after this film and not his knack for making an action car movie. I give it 6 out of 10 because it still had the classic Jackie feel despite it's shortcomings.
Reviewer Score: 6