Bulletproof Monk
A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.
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- Cast:
- Chow Yun-fat , Seann William Scott , Jaime King , Karel Roden , Victoria Smurfit , Mako , K.C. Collins
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Brilliant and touching
To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
This was coming off streaming in a couple of days and some of the reviews intrigued me, so I decided to give it a try. A short and sweet review would be that this is basically very well- done good-natured dumb fun. At this point the whole "chosen one" thing has been done to death by it seems every major religion and countless works of fiction--it seems to appeal to some sort simplistic desire deeply embedded in the minds of a great number of people, so it just keeps on rolling along.This one at least does the bit with an optimistic spirit and a little twist at the end. Still, enough is enough. While this particular plot device often produces a warm emotional feeling (as it does here), it's pretty immature and drains complexity and subtlety out of stories. Also, on an unrelated tack, why are the Nazis always the bad guys?
This movie has it all! Wire-Fu! Nazis! Monkey-attacks to the face! Stifler!!! (?!) Magical Subway Unscrew-the-Screw Kung-Fu! Ball-Hungry Subway Bodybuilder Gangs! Racial Cleansing! Genocide! Too Cheap to Crash a Helicopter! Crazy Monk BSDM! Russian Mafia Princesses! With Semtex, No Less! Nazis-- With Jedi Mind Tricks-- That Bite! Statue Homicide! Oh YEAH! If you believe hard enough, you can fly, or alternatively, turn this pile of crap into a diamond. Personally I loved it: I haven't seen a movie this humorously bad since Dante's Peak. If it was re-shot with paper cutouts I probably would have mistaken it for South Park.Downside: you'll have to watch The Replacement Killers three times in a row before you'll take Chow Yun-Fat seriously again.
Tibetan Buddhism is a pure betrayal of Buddhism, of Buddha himself. It dares go beyond Buddha's teaching and reinvent a divinity of some kind where Buddha had taught there could not be any God anywhere. The great force that leads the universe in the eternal cycle from birth to rebirth via decay and death is transmuted into some kind of prophecy about some kind of truth to keep against human greed in order to save the world, and that truth is entrusted to one person who remains beyond aging, will not decay in other words, for as long as he will carry this trust and responsibility. When the time has come he will have to transmit his responsibility to the newly elected person who fulfills the three prophecies and the guardian will finally age and take a vacation leaving the burden to the new warden. Buddha would be ashamed of such primitive beliefs if he could witness such naive sagas. And the film goes slightly beyond by deciding that the new warden will be double and will be a man and a woman, a heterosexual couple in one word, Hollywood trying to save Tibetan Buddhism from the righteous accusation of being deeply and profoundly and exclusively sexist, that is to say anti-women, or at least closed to women. It also takes advantage of the film to move Tibet to New York, to add a little bit of Nazism in all that, and to entrust the serious mission to two Caucasian non-Tibetan "goyim" instead of one good old Asian, Tibetan if possible, Buddhist monk. But that is only a film. True. But what a laughable fable. Luckily there are the spectacular fights and contortions and acrobatics to save the whole fairy tale from too much shallowness.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
1 – One of the best movies which was based on a comic book.2 – One of the best movies which stars (Yun-Fat Chow) (and what a very short list it would be !).3 – One of the most attractive cinematic introductions ever (the sequence of the German attack on the temple).4 – One of the most beautiful plots (regardless a few holes and some slight silliness).5 – One of the greatest roles in (Seann William Scott)'s career (and honestly what a detestable career he had !).6 – One of the most eloquent dialogue not ever written but ever written in an action flick like this.7 – One of the most ambition action scenes (the helicopter one .. Oh My God that was just super and as far as I know .. I didn't see anything like it before). 8 – One of the most forgettable movies to be ! (simply because no one will concern with a Hollywood average budget picture starring "Yun-Fat Chow" and "Seann William Scott" together about such a bulletproof monk !).9 – One of my favorites.10 - One of My father's favorites (although he just hates anything related to superheroes, science fiction, fantasy !).