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Venerable action star Chow Yun-Fat is the only saving grace in this silly action flick that more often than not resembles a commercial in style.
All Critics (132) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (101) | DVD (13)
The fight scenes are routine, the humor juvenile, and the Toronto locales rendered drab through muddy cinematography. May 3, 2007 | Full Review…
The fight scenes are routine, the humor juvenile, and the Toronto locales rendered drab through muddy cinematography.
Bill Stamets
Chow was never a martial arts star back home, but he's a good enough actor -- and an engaging enough personality -- to pass for one here. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Chow was never a martial arts star back home, but he's a good enough actor -- and an engaging enough personality -- to pass for one here.
It's supremely ironic: the scroll defeats the body's natural decaying process. In today's movies, so does the computer. It's even more efficient than plastic surgery, but just as phoney. Jun 20, 2003 | Full Review…
It's supremely ironic: the scroll defeats the body's natural decaying process. In today's movies, so does the computer. It's even more efficient than plastic surgery, but just as phoney.
Paul Byrnes
They made a ton of junky movies in Hong Kong, but those were dazzlingly fluid and high-flying junky movies. This American retread has the same sort of hack plot but none of the bravura. Apr 22, 2003 | Full Review…
They made a ton of junky movies in Hong Kong, but those were dazzlingly fluid and high-flying junky movies. This American retread has the same sort of hack plot but none of the bravura.
David Edelstein
[T]he thing about the martial arts sequences -- you've got the great Chow Yun-Fat, but this thing is directed MTV style: cut here, cut there, close-up. So we can't really tell if he's doing stunts or if it's all tricks of camerawork. Apr 21, 2003
[T]he thing about the martial arts sequences -- you've got the great Chow Yun-Fat, but this thing is directed MTV style: cut here, cut there, close-up. So we can't really tell if he's doing stunts or if it's all tricks of camerawork.
Richard Roeper
Great title, but this martial-arts comedy doesn't quite live up to it. Apr 20, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Great title, but this martial-arts comedy doesn't quite live up to it.
Peter Bradshaw
basically Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes to New York Jan 12, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
basically Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes to New York
Kevin Carr
Not to put too fine a point on it, but "Bulletproof Monk" is a rather large piece of garbage. Sep 7, 2015 | Rating: 0/4 | Full Review…
Not to put too fine a point on it, but "Bulletproof Monk" is a rather large piece of garbage.
David N. Butterworth
Violent but cool martial arts movie. Dec 22, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Violent but cool martial arts movie.
Nell Minow
This is one piece of derivative, hokey, and really stupid action drivel. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
This is one piece of derivative, hokey, and really stupid action drivel.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
An enticing title that perfectly sets up our anticipation for a rollicking martial-arts comic-book fable adventure. Oct 18, 2008 | Full Review…
An enticing title that perfectly sets up our anticipation for a rollicking martial-arts comic-book fable adventure.
Urban Cinefile Critics
The constantly beaming monk is as good-natured as the script is mindless. Aug 7, 2008 | Rating: 2/5
The constantly beaming monk is as good-natured as the script is mindless.
Mark Halverson
I felt a stabbing pain watching this movie. I had dark hole expectations watching it and I was still dissapointed. Bulletproof Monk is the biggest Americanisation of the eastern action movie i've ever seen. Seann William Scott has only ever been funny in Role Models. Yung kicks ass but unfortunately the rest doesn't. Especially the ridiculous non-existent plot.
Super Reviewer
What a weird movie, it's a modern kung-fu fantasy/comedy. While that's pretty brave to attempt to make that plot work, it just wasn't executed properly and it just didn't have enough personality. I think what makes it work the most is the buddy cop antics between Seann William Scott and Chow Yun Fat, aside from that it falls pretty flat.
I really enjoyed this corny action movie, and I wish that it was longer than it was, and improved on it's little flaws, because I really wanted to love this one, but I still really liked it!
even the title is so incredibly stupid
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