Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Mihai Toma The classic Jules Verne story receives a new approach, in which Jackie Chan plays a big role. Instead of focusing on the actual story and the main characters, it all resumes on endless Kung Fu fights, Jackie style.I find this idea really inappropriate, not to say stupid. It's all a big parody, where absolutely nothing is taken seriously and every single scene ends up with a fight. The characters' scripts are idiotic, the course of events is stupid and the whole movie seems like cheap comedy. Too bad that great actors (including Coogan, Schwarzenegger, Wilson and so on) wasted their talent and time for this movie. To see the good part, it had some good landscapes, some great-looking computer generated transitions and some funny moments, but all of them pale in comparison with its downsides. A bad movie in my opinion, good time wasted...

Paul Magne Haakonsen The sole reason for me watching this movie was, without any secret, because of Jackie Chan. And as a big fan of his, then I tend to watch just about anything of his that I come across. However, true to most Western productions that he stars in, then the movie hardly reaches up to the knees of the Asian productions that he has been in. That being said, don't get me wrong. I am not saying that "Around the World in 80 Days" is a bad movie, far from it. It is an enjoyable adventure for sure, it is just suffering from being a forced Western production.The story in "Around the World in 80 Days" is about Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) who undertakes a wager to travel around the entire world in 80 days with the help of Passepartout / Lau Xing (played by Jackie Chan) a hired help that literally falls into the lap of Mr. Fogg. And the trek around the globe is full of adventure, excitement but also with danger.As with most Jackie Chan movies, then there is a good amount of action and comedy in "Around the World in 80 Days", complete with the trademark style of slapstick action comedy that Jackie Chan is known and loved for.But it is also visually a good movie, very pleasing to the eyes.However, the thorn in my side, is that this is a Western production, and Jackie Chan does seem somewhat like a fish out of water in such movies. But still, it is a fun movie to watch and a fair enough addition to the collection if you are a fan of Jackie Chan.It was a nice treat to have Karen Mok show up in this movie, with her usual charms, spot on performance and on-screen charisma."Around the World in 80 Days" is a movie that is worthwhile sitting down to watch as a family or if you are a big fan of Jackie Chan.I am rating it a sound six out of ten stars.

SnoopyStyle Lau Xing (Jackie Chan) steals the Jade Buddha from the Bank of England and escapes from the police. He finds shelter with inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) taking the name Passepartout. Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent) demands the Buddha's return from General Fang before supporting her in China. Kelvin laughs at Phileas and his ideas in the Royal Academy of Science. They bet Phileas traveling around the world in 80 days. Kelvin hires bumbling inspector Fix (Ewen Bremner) to stop them and then orders their arrest. In Paris, Moonique La Roche (Cécile De France) joins them.I don't like the addition of the Chinese story although the fight in Paris is great fun. It distracts from the basic story which is the adventure of traveling the world. The movie diminishes the drama of the ticking clock. The best moment in the story is when they think they lost the race at the finish line. This movie makes it an after-thought. Lots of the movie makes no sense time wise although logic is not a necessity. Coogan and Chan could have chemistry but their characters take a long time to connect. I don't know who Cécile De France is but she was OK. Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance is horrible and he puts the movie on a downward trend that it never recovers from.

Prismark10 Around the World is remade once more with more of a comedy take than before. Jackie Chan is more the focus as the valet but here a man from China trying to return a stolen Buddha.Steve Coogan is a wacky inventor and would be adventurer, Phileas Fogg, who takes up a challenge to voyage around the world from Jim Broadbent.Chan is chased by both police and Chinese assassins and uses Fogg to get back to China. This allows Chan to use his slapstick acrobatics and comedy kung fu.Coogan is the more erudite one, intelligent almost an Henry Higgins type. Emotionally repressed as we see when a young French painter (Monique) joins them and be the eventual romantic interest for Coogan.The film has a host of star cameo appearances such as John Cleese, Richard Branson, The Wilson brothers and Arnie the Governor.The film is charming enough with broad laughs and slapstick. Its disposable fun but also easily forgettable.