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The Accidental Spy (2001)
A fair amount of our delight with this film is due to a plot that is more intricate than those in most of Jackie’s movies. Screenwriter Ivy Ho (who was credited only with the story in Chan’s last Asian film, Gorgeous) has scripted a first-class spy tale that is made all the more appealing by Buck’s lack of sophistication. He’s smart and genuine, and though he revels in the fact that he has suddenly made himself rich, he is quickly saddened by the price of his wealth. Jackie always plays likeable characters, but Buck is one of his most human roles to date.
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Stephen Sommers’ 1999 retread of Universal’s The Mummy was a surprise hit, a surprise not least to me, old skool purist that I am, and even a surprise to Roger Ebert. The sequel, not so much. This second sequel? Check into the User Comments section of the IMDb entry, and you’ll see entry after entry of spittle-spewing prose opining everyone connected with the movie should be stoned. Good Lord, these people have never seen a truly bad movie, have they?
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Also: American Scary (2007), Iron Man - Two Disc Special Collector's Edition (2008)
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Punisher: War Zone (2008)
2008 was a very good year for Marvel Enterprises. Their fledgling movie production arm scored big with the summer opener Iron Man and kept going with The Incredible Hulk; how odd, then, to open the darkly violent Punisher: War Zone in December with so little fanfare, there to be lost in the publicity shuffle for movies like Valkyrie, Benjamin Button and The Spirit. Too bad, as this movie does the comic character as proud as Marvel’s other two, higher-budgeted celluloid reincarnations.
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Also: Wonder Woman: Two Disc Special Edition (2009), The Dark Knight - Two Disc Special Edition (2008)
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Son of Blob (1972)
Dubbed by some wags as “the film J.R. shot,” Son of Blob takes place during that weird, wonderful time when the Sixties changed into the Seventies. Drug use passed from the exclusive domain of naive mind-voyagers and became the province of blissed-out idiots, and the colorful fashions of the one decade began to mutate into the eye-shredding fashions of the next.