As the champion of the Spring Festival in 2017, "Kung Fu Yoga" is really "unmatched in virtue", but considering the quality of several other "competing products", "Kung Fu Yoga" can only be regarded as "the generals selected from the scumbags" .
Jackie Chan's films in recent years have almost fallen into the trap of homogenization ("British Showdown" during November last year can only be said to be a short-lived Xiaoyangchun), the routine of action comedy has no new ideas, and there is no major plot. breakthrough. However, the audience is not really tired of this set. With the very impressive box office figures and Jackie Chan's golden signboard, movies such as "Kung Fu Yoga" will continue to be "incubated" in today's market environment. However, what has been bred in this incubator is only old projects of "old wine in new bottles".
"Kung Fu Yoga" is still a subject matter that Jackie Chan is very familiar with, and it is flawless in all aspects. Since it is in the Spring Festival, the primary function of the film is to entertain and "forget". What's more, the basic function of commercial films has never been to expose and question, but to conceal and soothe. As a qualified commercial film, "Kung Fu Yoga" basically guarantees the function of "shielding and soothing". That being the case, if we explore more, it may lose its meaning and direction, and punching in the air, isn't it just a nuisance?
Linked to "Kung Fu Yoga" half a year ago, "Jedi Escape", the two constitute the intertextual text of Jackie Chan's works in recent years. The basic attributes and soft and hard configurations are repeated and superimposed. This is probably the future trajectory of Jackie Chan's films.
During the 2012 "Zodiac" promotion, Jackie Chan publicly declared that it was his last action movie. I don't know if this is just a propaganda strategy and caliber, or the powerful inertial effect of path dependence. Now in five or six years, this sentence has long been forgotten by the forgetful audience, right?
Looking at Jackie Chan's next works, as well as his inherent preferences and frame placement as an actor, if you want to ask more honestly, which will be Jackie Chan's last action movie?
The answer is undoubtedly the next one.
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