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Overview

User Rating:
5.2/10   15,084 votes
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Director:
Paul Hunter
Writers (WGA):
Ethan Reiff (written by) &
Cyrus Voris (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
16 April 2003 (USA) more
Tagline:
A power beyond measure requires a protector without equal. more
Plot:
Based on the very underground comic book, a Tibetan monk becomes a mentor to a young street kid whom he can teach to protect a scroll. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Watchable but still awful more

Cast

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence, language and some sexual content.
Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The actors who portray the monks in the movie are real martial artists from the Sunny Tang Martial Arts Center located in Toronto, Canada. more
Goofs:
Continuity: While the Monk and Kar talk as they walk down a crowded street, the same woman in a blue coat with a hood walks past them in the same direction several times. more
Quotes:
Strucker: I don't like monkeys. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Slanted Screen (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Ranjahx more

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10 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
Watchable but still awful, 2 April 2006
3/10
Author: TrevorAclea from London, England

Chow Yun-Fat hasn't made a film since Bulletproof Monk, and that may just be out of embarrassment. On paper this could have been an enjoyable disposable action film, but nearly everything goes wrong. The script is poor, littered with tired clichés long past their sell-by dates and fortune cookie homilies passing for dialogue, and Chow, once the most charismatic of Asian stars, cuts a rather chubby and past his prime figure, at times distressingly like a post-Star Trek George Takei doing panto. When Seann William Scott cuts a more convincing figure in an action movie, things have gone very wrong, though in all fairness to Scott he is a surprisingly likable hero and turns in the films one decent performance. As for the Nazi villain of the piece – oh dear. Was every other actor in Germany busy that month? Even the fight scenes are pretty dire: none of the cast are martial artists, and the direction, editing and choreography do little to hide the fact, while the wire work is possibly the worst ever seen – slow, unconvincing and completely lacking in any sense of weight or gravity, it just makes the fight scenes look ridiculous. Watchable, but pretty awful.

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