Bulletproof Monk (DVD)

...nothing to obtain it. Bulletproof Monk is based on a comic book, which very few people have ever heard of. I’d never heard about it, and only learnt this when researching the film on the Internet. Bulletproof Monk is also another example of a Hollywood attempt to make a martial arts movie, albeit with rather more fun thrown in. From the start, it was therefore always going to be on shaky ground. Comic book fans and martial art purists are ...
...comics or proper martial arts, Bulletproof Monk is more of a mixed bag. At times, the movie was utterly dreadful to the extent that many people would simply scoff and walk out. At other times, the movie has a tremendous spirit of fun about it and I have to say that on the whole it isn’t all that hard to enjoy this movie. It has been criticised and praised equally for its usage of those “Matrix-style” wire action scenes. Both the ...

LostWitness 13.05.2003 (03.02.2004) · Read full review
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I’ve been watching martial arts films since I was a kid. I grew up with them, at a time when they weren’t so big in Hollywood. When Jackie Chan was working with Yuen Biao, and Jet Li was making amazing films like “Once upon a time in China”. The early work that not a lot of people have seen, unless they know their martial arts. This was the good stuff and there are very few Hollywood martial arts films that have matched them or even come close. Unfortunately ...
...from a comic book is the story of a monk who has to protect a certain scripture with his life, which in turn will protect him too. This scripture if read aloud by a person will give them immense power over erm …something…enyhow moving on – the film starts with Chow-Yun Fat’s character (which remains nameless so we’ll call him Bob…imaginative I know) becoming the next protector as he finishes passing his three tests. After obtaining the power he is ...

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Some days I return home from the office very tired, open the little panel at the back of my head, remove my brain, place it into a thimble next to me, and put an action film on to give my eyes something to do. Being a fan of martial arts films and comic books since childhood, this film that combines both, seemed the ideal fare for me. BULLET PROOF MONK (2003) stars established actors Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and The Replacement ...
...actress Jaime King (Blow, and Slackers), and marks the film directorial debut of Paul Hunter, who has previous worked on music videos and TV ads. Supporting him as producer is John Woo (Face/Off, and Broken Arrow). The film begins 60 years ago during WWII at a monastery in Tibet where Chow Yun-Fat playing the role of the "monk with no name" completes his training of marshal arts and its related philosophy and usurps his teacher as protector of an ...

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Bulletproof Monk is another comic book adapted for the big screen. It stars Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott and James King in a comic martial arts movie. If you do not mind a limited plot or enjoy Jackie Chan style movies then this may be one you will enjoy, especially as the interaction between Chow Yun-Fat and Scott is similar to the interaction between Chan and Wilson in the Shanghai Knight Movies. The Actors Chow Yun-Fat plays a Tibetan martial ...
...his position as a monk in charge of a special scroll. This scroll if it fell into the wrong hands and read out loud would give the villain ultimate control . The charge of protecting the scroll is handed on to a new guardian every 60 years during the year of the Ram and the monks 60 years are almost up, if he cannot find a successor he will have to wait another 60 years before the next successor appears. Chow Yun-Fat is also known from being in Crouching ...

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...quite different in genre to Bulletproof Monk. Hard Boiled and a Better Tomorrow are adult, violent and full of heavy Kung-Fu action. Bulletproof Monk was always meant to be a light hearted, more family film; if you look at it in this light, i think it succeeds quite well; especially considering it is the director Paul Hunter's debut film. Although with flaws, this film is worth seeing at the cinema - whether you're a fan of kung fu or not. ...

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The intriguingly titled Bulletproof Monk is a film version of the comic book. The blurbs in various magazines said it was an interesting fusion of styles. ‘Interesting’ it certainly was. It involves a Tibetan monk (Yun Fat Chow) who has inherited the task of protecting a powerful scroll, being forced to flee his homeland after nasty enemies destroy his peaceful monastery in search of the scroll. He then ends up finding and training a ...
...task. Before the movie my boyfriend and I had been discussing whether martial arts experts such as Jackie Chan are actually any good at acting, and whether we liked East meets West buddy movies. We had watched Shanghai Knights and Rush Hour and felt that maybe Mr Chan would be better off kicking and punching and keeping his mouth shut! This unfortunately seems to go for this movie too – Yun-Fat Chow certainly does the kung-fu stuff well enough, ...

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In this epic film Bulletproof Monk star Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Sean William Scott (American Pie) and Jaime king (Sin City). The film Bulletproof monk is based on a comic book about a Tibetan monk, who taught a street kid how to protect a scroll. The film lasts approximately 99 minutes on DVD format and comes with English subtitle features for the hearing impaired. I last watched this film around a year ago with some family ...
...Yun-Fat) duty is to protect the scroll that holds the key to infinite power. Who ever reads the scroll has the chance to turn the world into a leaving hell or heaven. However his 60 years as guardian of the scroll is coming to an end, so he is in search for a future scroll guardian none other then Kar (Sean William Schott). Kar is a pick pocket thief. The nameless monk (Chow Yun-Fat) has a difficult time in making Kar understand him. But none the ...

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BULLETPROOF MONK DIRECTOR: Paul Hunter (PLAYES) STARRING: Fat-Yun Chow, man with no name but the monk Sean William/ Kar Jamie King/ Jade Karek Roden/ Strucker Victoria Smurfit/ Nina Marcus j Pirae/ Mr Funtastic This film is a PG certificate This was a watchable film and had only a small amount of action in it . It begins of with chow yun fat as a monk who is given a scroll to him by another monk to protect and to make sure it does not get ...
...who playes the monk deadicates his life to look after the scroll ,60 years pass and the monk who does not age is on the run as the nazi german who has aged is after the scroll with the help of his grandaughter whos also a nasty piece of work. The scoll is a item that has manipulating powers that can give any person long life that reads the writting of it and more . By chance chow stumbles across Kar ( Sean William Scott) who plays a pick pockter ...

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...monk may well have been bulletproof but the film certainly wasn't. I just about made it to the end (although I was third out of the door at the end) although I did sympathise with the three who couldn't go the distance and left two thirds of the way through. The shame of it is that I really wanted to like this film but at the end of the day just do not feel able to recommend anyone seeing it. Some of the acting defied description - I mean Chow Yun-Fat ...
...would appreciate that he could have done better with a feeble script. The problem starts with the story which just seems to be a 'scribbled on a match box' plot. In a nutshell - 'Ageless mystical monk protects secret scroll from aging nazi in New York city while training young apprentice'. Nazi's and sacred artifacts may have worked in Indiana Jones but Chow is no Harrison and the tongue in cheek comic-book humour needed to pull it off is too often ...

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Bullet-proof Monk Certificate:PG13 Bullet-proof Monk This film is rated a PG13 or in England a 12 I would class this film as an action, comedy this film runs for 1hr 44min And it was released in cinemas on April 16, 2003 A monk (Chow Yun-Fat) and a thief (Seann William Scott) start to work as a team when the thief becomes caught up in the middle of the monks trouble to protect some scrolls that he was given Sixty years ago, he was given the ...
...the 60 years was up and all that time travelling around the world in search of the next person to protect these scrolls the new carer which end’s up to be Kar (Seann William Scott), a common thief living in the city of San Francisco. After trying to teach Kar in fighting and keeping himself alive so that he could fight the monk with no name’s enemy a Nazi German who wants the power to live forever or to make him younger again. Bullet-proof Monk was ...

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ok ok everyone get the idea that you need more info about the film so giving it another go! the film starts with Nazis trying to steal a sacred Tibetan scroll in 1943. This scroll if read out loud will give the reader infinite powers to take over the world. The scroll is guarded by one man for a period of sixty years and this guardian remains youthful during these years. Not to spoil the film but basically Chow-Yung-Fat takes over the guardianship ...
...bullet dodging and martial arts. Cut to pick-pocket Seann William Scott in 2003 and his meeting with Chow-Yung-Fat and their subsequent rocky relationship as Chow-Yung-Fat believes Scott is his successor due to very thin but funny prophecies about the next guardian. Here enters Jaime King (wow) as streetwise girl with mystery and a liking for Scott and fluent Tibetan! The film then revolves around the resurgence of the original Nazi thief and the ...

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BULLET PROOF MONK CAST YUN CHOW FAT(crouching tiger,hidden dragon,corruptor,replacement killers) SEAN WILLIAMS SCOTT(american pie,roadtrip,evolution) JAIME KING(pearl harbour,slackers,blow) DIRECTOR-PAUL HUNTER GENRE-ACTION,MARTIAL ARTS,COMEDY. RUNNING TIME--104 MINUTES For sixty years there has been a monastary keeping safe a sacred scroll, then when the sixty years is up a new keeper is found this happens to be a monk with no name he is ...
...the powers to keep him young and alive until the sixyty years are up and he has found the next keeper of the scroll. Out side the temple there are nazis waiting to have the scroll for the power they can use to destroy the world to ther ends.,the rest of the monkes stand in the way of the door so they cannot enter,they are all massacred, and the transfer is done the monk comes out and fights the rest especially one certaincaptain who wants use ...

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Main Cast: Monk (Chow Yun Fat) Kar (Seann William Scott) Jade (Jaime King) Plot summary: Chow Yun Fat plays a monk selected to guard a mythical scroll that can give absolute power to anyone who reads from it aloud. His 60 year duty is up and he is in America avoiding the Nazi who has been chasing his for the full 60 years trying to get his hands on the scroll. He bumps into petty thief Kar (Seann William Scott) while running from said Nazi's ...
...scroll. Through sheer perseverance they team up against the people who are after the monk, and Kar is found to be the next in line to guard the scroll. My opinion: Seann William Scott isn't exactly the first actor who springs to mind when I think of a film like this. In saying that I can't particularly fault him for his performance at all. This film eventually bored me sadly. I was expecting so much after seeing it was a John Woo film. There was ...

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This is a light-hearted, rather frothy film, which is great fun as long as you concentrate on the fight scenes and ignore the howling gaps in the plot and some fairly weak scripting. I think that if you're in a good mood when you go to see this film (as I was) then you'll enjoy it; if you're not, its silliness will probably irritate you very quickly. However, both the leading male and the leading female are very easy on the eye, the fight scenes ...

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this film really suprised me! i was expecting to be rubbish, but to be fair its not really that bad. im very picky with my martial arts films as i find the flying through the air and bouncing off arrows very hard to watch, but this is watchable and sometimes even amusing! the ending is the only bit of this film that lets it down for me, but dont let that put you off, just giving my own opinion as i dont like 'fairy tale' endings, all the action throughout ...

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