Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Tweekums A monk at a Tibetan monastery has been protecting a mythical scroll for the last sixty years and now, in 1943, it is time for him to hand over the task to the one who has fulfilled the three prophecies. No sooner has he done this than Nazis attack and kill the old monk. His successor gets away and we next see him sixty years later as he prepares to find his successor. He bumps into a pickpocket named Kar, who takes the scroll from his bag; he sees something in the young crook though and wonders if this unlikely character will be the next guardian of the scroll. The monk has other problems too; the Nazi, now an old man, is still after the scroll which has the power to change the world into a paradise or a hell depending on the person who reads it. As the film progresses Kar shows more signs that he may be 'the one' and they have more run-ins with the Nazi and his henchmen before the inevitable final confrontation.This is definitely not a film to be taken seriously; it has plenty of flaws but is still kind of fun. There is plenty of action but much of it looks rather fake; and not in the beautifully choreographed way of films like 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'. Nazis have been a popular choice for villains ever since the war but they have been a cliché for much of that time and here it feels as though somebody watched 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and decided they wanted those villains! Chow Yun Fat does a good job as the monk; he is genuinely funny and is great in the action sequences. Seann William Scott is okay as Kar but doesn't really have the presence for the role. Jaime King, who plays Kar's love interest Jade, had more of a presence and I'd have preferred it if her character had a greater role rather than Kar. Overall this is okay if you want some mild action and don't mind all the clichés; not necessarily a film to seek out but it passes the time well enough.

SnoopyStyle The Monk With No Name (Yun-Fat Chow) takes over guarding a sacred scroll that if read out loud will give unlimited powers. He is tasked to protect the scroll from anybody reading for the next 60 years. On the first day, the Nazis under Strucker attack the monastery massacring the monks. The Monk is shot with the scroll falling off a cliff. 60 years later, the Monk is in the modern world still running from the bad guys and petty thief Kar (Seann William Scott) is running from the cops. They both jump in to rescue a kid from the subway train tracks. Kar steals the scroll from the Monk and he runs into a gang of subway thugs. Jade (Jaime King) is the leader's girl and has an eye on the charming Kar.This comic book concept could work. It just needs to be either less campy or a whole lot more campy. Maybe it needs to be both. The subway gang looks really really really stupid. SWS needs more jokes and he's capable of being funnier. Chow Yun Fat sort of works as the wise monk. The duo has some good chemistry and is probably the best thing about this movie. The camera style isn't the best and looks a lot like 80s Toronto-for-NYC movies. Music video director Paul Hunter just doesn't have the skills. Also Jaime King looks a lot better as a blonde. She could be a great comic book character. It's too silly to be thrilling but not silly enough to be funny.

katmarsen This movie has it all! Wire-Fu! Nazis! Monkey-attacks to the face! Stifler!!! (?!) Magical Subway Unscrew-the-Screw Kung-Fu! Ball-Hungry Subway Bodybuilder Gangs! Racial Cleansing! Genocide! Too Cheap to Crash a Helicopter! Crazy Monk BSDM! Russian Mafia Princesses! With Semtex, No Less! Nazis-- With Jedi Mind Tricks-- That Bite! Statue Homicide! Oh YEAH! If you believe hard enough, you can fly, or alternatively, turn this pile of crap into a diamond. Personally I loved it: I haven't seen a movie this humorously bad since Dante's Peak. If it was re-shot with paper cutouts I probably would have mistaken it for South Park.Downside: you'll have to watch The Replacement Killers three times in a row before you'll take Chow Yun-Fat seriously again.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU Tibetan Buddhism is a pure betrayal of Buddhism, of Buddha himself. It dares go beyond Buddha's teaching and reinvent a divinity of some kind where Buddha had taught there could not be any God anywhere. The great force that leads the universe in the eternal cycle from birth to rebirth via decay and death is transmuted into some kind of prophecy about some kind of truth to keep against human greed in order to save the world, and that truth is entrusted to one person who remains beyond aging, will not decay in other words, for as long as he will carry this trust and responsibility. When the time has come he will have to transmit his responsibility to the newly elected person who fulfills the three prophecies and the guardian will finally age and take a vacation leaving the burden to the new warden. Buddha would be ashamed of such primitive beliefs if he could witness such naive sagas. And the film goes slightly beyond by deciding that the new warden will be double and will be a man and a woman, a heterosexual couple in one word, Hollywood trying to save Tibetan Buddhism from the righteous accusation of being deeply and profoundly and exclusively sexist, that is to say anti-women, or at least closed to women. It also takes advantage of the film to move Tibet to New York, to add a little bit of Nazism in all that, and to entrust the serious mission to two Caucasian non-Tibetan "goyim" instead of one good old Asian, Tibetan if possible, Buddhist monk. But that is only a film. True. But what a laughable fable. Luckily there are the spectacular fights and contortions and acrobatics to save the whole fairy tale from too much shallowness.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines