Chan suits up for more pointless action

From: Daily Breeze | Date: September 27, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

There is an ancient tradition in action movies that the first scene is a self-contained shocker with norelevance to the rest of the plot. James Bond parachutes from a mountainside, Clint Eastwood disarms a robber, etc. Jackie Chan's "The Tuxedo" opens with a deer urinating in a mountain stream. The deer, the urine and the stream have nothing to do with the rest of the film.

The movie's plot does involve water. The bad guy wants to add an ingredient to the world's water supply that will cause victims to dehydrate and die. To save themselves, they will have to buy the villain's pure water. ...

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