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IvanF's Cut and Paste, No-Name Theatrical
Review of
Around the World in Eighty Days 2004
- IvanFian written June 30th, 2004 -
Film Design - 6.5
Enjoyment Factor - 6.0
Overall (not an average)
- 6.0
(0.5 out of 4 stars)
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- Commentary from a friend -
"I saw "Around the World in 80 Days" this afternoon at 12:50pm at the usual theatre I've been going to. This is Jackie Chan's latest film. Chan portrays Passepartout who is a Chinese thief who managed to steal the Jade Buddha from the Bank of England. Chan's Passepartout (or Lau Xing) stole the jade buddha because it is a priceless artifact to save his village back in China. To avoid being caught by English officials and the Black Scorpion gang after Chan and the Buddha, Chan adopts the name Passepartout and becomes the new valet to English scientist Filious Fogg. Fogg is more or less an absent minded scientist who dreams that one day man will fly. Because Fogg is seen as a disgrace to science and the Royal Academy of Science, Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent) proposes a wager to Fogg to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days (Fogg's calculations)...however if Fogg doesn't succeed he'll have to cease being a scientist, but if Fogg does succeed Kelvin will be displaced of at being head of the Royal Academy of Science.
This film was mildly amusing during its first half, and finally picked up during around the 40 Day mark...the film by no means is an Academy Award contender but it does provide some decent action scenes thanks to Chan, and some witty lines especially in the latter half of the film...the film also marks such cameos as Arnold Schwarzenegger as Prince Hapi of Turkey...Prince Hapi is so horny as a prince that he wants a wife for every day of the week, the only day/wife he doesn't have yet is Tuesday apparently...Hapi takes a keen interest in Fogg's & Passepartout's female companion...as well, the other notable pair of cameos is from Owen & Luke Wilson as the Wright Brothers...which is possibly the past cameo of the film, especially when Owen Wilson as Wilbur Wright explains to Orville what's this "I" business, its "we" who will be responsible for flight...As well, the ending climax inside the warehouse holding the soon to be Statue of Liberty was a decent action scene involving the evil Chinese woman seeking vengeance on our trio trying to make it out of New York to make it back to England in 3-4 days...
Therefore, "Around the World in 80 Days" wasn't the greatest film, but it was a decent summer popcorn film...therefore it deserves a 6.5/10 and a 1.5/4 stars..."
Film Design - 7.0
Enjoyment Factor - 6.5
Overall (not an average) - 6.5
(1.5 out of 4 stars)
- Risen Phoenix -