To me, this movie is perfection.
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Best movie of this year hands down!
Absolutely brilliant
I won't pretend to have seen every Jackie Chan movie out there, but I've seen all the ones he made at his peak in the 1980s and 1990s. I think that if this particular one had been made during that period, it would have turned out a lot better. For one thing, Chan only gets into ONE fight sequence in this film, and it's far from being exciting. (Though maybe this was inevitable, given Chan's now advancing age.) As it turns out, very little of the other action in the movie, from shoot-outs to fisticuffs, manages to be all that interesting. There is no breakneck pacing, no feeling of great tension or struggle that was found in Chan's earlier movies. Instead, all the action comes across as labored and sluggish. In fact, there are some lengthy sections of this overlong (over two hours in length) movie that are kind of boring.Other complaints I had about the movie range from there being too many characters to unfunny bouts of slapstick comedy. Everything added together makes for one big disappointing movie. Stick with Chan's older movies instead.
View MoreIn December 1941, The railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China became a key military transportation route, heavily guarded by Japanese soldiers. Ma Yuan, a railroad worker and his group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must rely on their wits to battle an entire army. Railroad Tigers touches a subject of War and the plot does sound quite interesting unfortunately the final product is an unfunny slapstick comedy/war film starring Jackie Chan with awkward humor, action that is just boring to watch and the actual movie just doesn't know what it wants to be and honestly this might be one of Chan's worst films yet.
View MoreAll I can really say about this movie is that it is OK of a bit long. It is watchable and has some good moments but it could have been so much better. This is not a typical Jackie Chan movie but then not many of his later ones are. We have to appreciate that Mr Chan is getting older I suppose and can't be the martial arts genius we are used to but he is still a good comedic, slap stick actor and there is some of this in this movie.I just felt the story was a good one and could have been much better had it been directed to move at a faster pace. Instead it got a bit tedious and boring in places.
View MoreI'm not a movie critic. Just a standard movie watcher lackey, and I found this movie a lot of fun. It's story line intertwines between a classical action film with Jackie Chan in it and a good war/history film. But most of the reviews are true. The classical Jackie Chan moves, and the classical Chan comedy - there is all of that in the action scenes, but not at the quantity one will expect. You must note one thing here - this is part a history, part an action, part a war movie, and for me every aspect of it was just the amount that I've needed to find it hilarious and to be on the edge throughout the whole movie!
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