Jackie Chan: The Tuxedo

Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts, Science Fiction

Jackie Chan	Jimmy Tong
Jennifer Love Hewitt	Delilah Blaine
Jason Isaacs	Clark Devlin
Ritchie Coster	Diedrich Banning
Mia Cottet	Cheryl
Daniel Kash	Rogers
Romany Malco	Mitch
Debi Mazar	Steena
Jody Racicot	Kells
Peter Stormare	Dr. Simms
James Brown	Himself
Boyd Banks	Vic
Scott Wickware	CSA Agent Wallace
Christian Potenza	CSA Agent Joel
Karen Glave	CSA Agent Randa

Director	Kevin Donovan (III); Kevin Donovan
Producer	Laurie MacDonald; Adam Schroeder
Writer	Phil Hay; Michael J. Wilson

Jackie Chan looks spiffy in The Tuxedo, but the movie needs a tailor. No Jackie Chan movie could be a total misfire, however, and he's charmingly self-effacing here as a hapless chauffeur who inadvertently replaces his injured super-agent boss (Jason Issacs) and foils a madman (Ritchie Coster) who plans to infect the world's water supply (!) and reap a fortune selling pure bottled water. Jackie's a bumbling superhero after donning his boss's high-tech, Inspector Gadget-like tuxedo (it even has a "Mambo" setting), and curvaceous co-agent Jennifer Love Hewitt coaches him in crime fighting while closing in on the bad guys. It's all as routinely ridiculous as it sounds--Jackie's faux James Brown act is the only real highlight--and as critic Roger Ebert observed, the climax hinges on an insect queen that doesn't exist in nature! So, while Jackie and Jennifer provide a few moments of stellar stunts and random amusement, you can blame this mess on screenwriters who didn't do their homework. --Jeff Shannon