Captain China: his super power is oppressing free speech and crushing freedoms of the little people!

What a crap movie full of Chinese fluff! Definitely worse than most movies I've seen this year!!!

Let's start with the positives. The fight scenes are pretty awesome, always clear with some cool moves.

The negatives. Where to start. Any action other than the fight scenes ranges from mediocre to bad. The CGI is awful yet used repeatedly, even on things that you don't expect them to CG. The story is nothing. The characters are nothing.

Most hilarious is that for some reason, even 40 some years later, jackie chan movies are terribly dubbed. And i don't mean dubbing with a different language. I mean voices speaking the same language as the character, yet never sounding like they're coming from them. I counted four different times when i saw how a character looks and then laughed out loud when they spoke.

By the end of the movie i cared about nothing. And the non-fight scene action became so monotonous and redundant. I was asking myself "why am i still watching this?" and i almost forgot about the hilariously blatant chinese propaganda (1 viewing, 6/9/2021)

Jackie Chan's newest mainland Chinese films tend to be very poor indeed, but I was pleasantly surprised by VANGUARD. It's as cheesy and propaganda-laden as you'd expect, not to mention badly acted and featuring some awful CGI animals in the African section, but the action is generally decent and it tends to just about hold up throughout. I put this down to the presence of veteran director Stanley Tong, of RUMBLE IN THE BRONX fame, who still knows how to shoot cool action and fight scenes and generally keeps the momentum going from beginning to end. Chan himself is a disappointment and keeps getting doubled now, and there's constant lazy CGI when there doesn't need to be, but otherwise this is okay.