Claudio Carvalho The international thief JC (Jackie Chan) and his team are hired to steal two bronze heads of the Chinese Zodiac by the MP Corporation that is specialized in supply stolen relics to auctions. After many incidents, JC befriends the women Coco (Helen Yao) and Catherine (Laura Weissbecker) and together with his crew, they live intense adventures and betrayals."Sap ji sang ciu", a.k.a. "Chinese Zodiac", is a typical Jackie Chan Film, with a naive and funny full of action story. The beginning is breathtaking, with JC rolling and passing by an army and makes the movie worthwhile watching. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Operação Zodíaco" ("Zodiac Operation")

Leofwine_draca Chinese Zodiac is the long-delayed third instalment of Jackie Chan's 'Asian Hawk', following on from ARMOUR OF GOD and ARMOUR OF GOD II: OPERATION CONDOR. Having just endured this ridiculous piece of international entertainment, I can only say that I wish they hadn't bothered.In recent years, Jackie has received plenty of criticism for being a mouthpiece for the communist Chinese government. He wrote the script for this thing (as well as fulfilling about 14 other roles) and unsurprisingly the film throughout is full of anti-Western sentiment, particularly from a young and irritating Chinese girl who seems to be included merely to spew out continuous bile about how imperialism robbed China of much of its heritage.Phew. Politics aside, Chinese Zodiac is an incredibly goofy film that lacks both the spirit and heart of Jackie's older movies. It's even a comedown from ROB-B-HOOD, which only came out a decade ago. Everyone loved Jackie in the old days for his energetic fight scenes and incredible stunts, and both are in short supply here. There are a few fun fights towards the climax, but none in the first hour, and the stunts are either wirework assisted or CGI. Not what we wanted to see. The script is diabolical, the acting from the rest of the cast is very poor, and Jackie himself seems to be on autopilot. Incredibly, Chinese Zodiac is a film that makes THE MEDALLION look like a masterwork.

Charles Herold (cherold) This movie begins with a really fun sequence with Chan covered in roller skates and has a lot of fun fights, although not as much of the Keatonesque fight humor as in some movies. But my god, what an inept story. It will tell you everything you need to know about the sense of it when I tell you a character buys a set of four antique items, destroys three to make the remaining one unique, and is then congratulated because that item is "three times" what it was worth before. Mathematically that's a big loss, so why is he being congratulated?Nothing in this movie makes more sense than that. Motivations are all over the map, attempts to fill in some emotional back story for the characters are perfunctory, the stuff about relic theft seems well- intentioned but unconnected the feel of the story, and one has to assume the fight scenes were designed before the story was written, as the story goes through various convolutions just to get characters in the right place for some big action scene.I'm torn between giving this a 6 and a 7. Ultimately it's a matter of mluch action scenes I'd rate at an 8 can counterbalance story scenes that I'd give a 4, and since there are some big action-less chunks, it's possible a 6 would be best. But I'll be nice, because it did have some very good moments.

David Holt (rawiri42) Well! What does one say about this oriental version of a sort of mixture of Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure, Indiana Jones, James Bond and The Hangover (plus a few more)? Crazy? Yes. Funny? Sometimes. Action? Most of the time! I notice that some other reviewer has said that this was sprooked as Jackie Chan's last starring role and, the way he flung himself around in this one, that wouldn't surprise me one bit! The guy was 58 years old when Chinese Zodiac was made but moved like a 20-year-old! He deserves a very long rest!There were a couple of very noticeable (to me) anomalies that I couldn't quite reconcile myself to. One was where characters were handling gold bricks like they weighed next-to-nothing. Anyone who has actually handled one that size would know that a girl certainly couldn't hold it between her thumb and forefinger. Gold is bloody heavy! Believe me. The other was the skydiving scene which lasted so long that, at typically about 25000 metres per minute would have to have been from a height about three or four times the maximum height that the aircraft they jumped out of could fly. I wish I'd timed it but then I didn't know what was coming until afterwards.All in all though, a fun spoof that didn't require too much serious attention as long as you don't expect too much.