{"id":35897,"date":"2022-05-24T20:27:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T01:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35897"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T01:27:39","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-752","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/05\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-752\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Gucci, Gucci, Goo I said!”<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Kung Fu Yoga<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2017) is a fairly dull Jackie Chan epic \/ Indiana Jones riff. Chan plays China’s greatest, but very humble, archaeologist Jack. He and his retinue of young & agile students – I think they’re students – are recruited by Indian professor Ashmita to buy and evaluate a huge emerald. It’s stolen by Ashmita’s rival, evil and arrogant Randall, who might be a prince of India or something, and claims ownership of the emerald. There’s also the theft of a diamond from a trove, yada yada yada. I lost track.<\/p>\n

Eventually, and there’s a lot of eventually<\/em> here, fair warning, we find Chan recreating the third Indiana Jones movie’s scene of the invisible bridge. I think. At its end is a golden gazebo full of treasure – and after some acrobatic fighting, villagers abruptly appear, everyone, even evil Randall, says namaste<\/em>, and they break into a Bollywood-style musical number. And that’s it.<\/p>\n

Yeah. No kidding. I’m not making that up. It’s too insipid, really.<\/p>\n

And the rest was sort of dull. Yes, lots of kung fu<\/em>, escapes from tight situations, and I think my credulity was all stretched out of shape at the end. Don’t get me wrong, technically it’s well done, and the escape from the hyenas was fun.<\/p>\n

OK, I hooted really loudly at the lion scene. I think I scared my Arts Editor, even. The lion might be worth the price of admission. If the price is fairly low.<\/p>\n

But I won’t remember this ripoff of Jones for much longer, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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