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GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Mordoggy This film is what it is respectively, a good comedy with action and fun fight sequences that Jackie Chan can honestly deliver! What are the critics expecting an Oscar worthy film about a Tuxedo? I don't think so. As in a film overall? It's not a perfect film or a great film. But it is a good film in my opinion. If your a Jackie Chan fan? Then you will also surely like it. P.S The Dr Angelo Scene with The Old Lady had me in the stitches!

Python Hyena The Tuxedo (2002): Dir: Ken Donovan / Cast: Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Isaacs, Debi Mazar, Peter Stormare: They say that the clothes don't make the man but in this action farce they take on a life of their own. Underneath the suit is a being of capabilities in everything except decent screenplays. Jackie Chan plays a cab driver hired to escort a secret agent when their car explodes. Chan teams up with a water expert played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Chan discovers a tuxedo in his boss's closet but its numerous functions are never explained. Predictable story but fine directing by Ken Donovan who can be forgiven for the lousy screenplay. Chan is a master of the stunts, and even brings humour with the use of the tuxedo but that is about the height of his performance. Hewitt is the foil and can only call this a departure from the teen comedy roles she is use too. Jason Isaacs plays the agent but the role is a prop. The villain's water scheme is stupid and he spends too much time sitting in a chair looking like an idiot. He should be proud of the fact that any list of great movie villains will not contain any references to him. Peter Stormare is also featured in his umpteenth strange guy role that have him typecast as demented. In the end this is just a showcase in stunts and action with just about as much stupidity that can be crammed into ninety minutes. Score: 3 / 10

George Clarke As Jackie Chans number one fan... (aren't we all), I knew the move to Hollywood was going to put a dampener on the man we all know and love!Rush Hour, as successful as it was, was a great vehicle for him, yet still managed to restrict the clown prince of kung fu who OWNED each of his films up to then.With his Hollywood pictures, it feels as if Jackie is taking one step forward and one step back - never really being allowed to show the true star that he really is!The Tuxedo, as one of his earlier US films, falls somewhere in between...Although shot in Toronto, this film is dripping with pure Hollywood cheese that really rattles my cage, and some of its main stunts are cut and repeated so much it takes away from the work involved.On that note, and knowing that it is the Tuxedo that makes Jackie fight (I know - ridiculous), he is still held back from some incredible 'what- could-have-been' moments, as he has that many wires strapped to him!Personally, if it was my film, I would have put the amazing Sammo Hung in the role. Allowing such a suit to give his portly butt those moves would have been stronger and funnier.That said, The Tuxedo does get viewed in our house often. The kids love it, and I haven't tired of seeing it yet... Enjoyable!

TheLittleSongbird I personally think The Medallion is worse than the Tuxedo, but the thing is The Tuxedo I was left cold by. Jackie Chan is always watchable, and he is one of the best things of this mediocre effort having a lot of charisma and doing what he can do. Jason Issacs also gives a strong performance, the first twenty minutes are actually great, the Macguffin is fun and the film does look good and doesn't look as though it was edited on a bacon slicer.However, despite these good things, The Tuxedo does fall downhill quickly. The storytelling on the whole is incredibly clunky complete with cardboard cut-outs for characters, poor dialogue, stunts that suffer from a lack of energy and unnecessary(not to mention sloppy) CGI effects that miss the point of everything Chan stands for. The film is badly paced, with a lot of rushed and slow spots that dispand from any more believability the film could have had, and the direction is bland. While Chan and Issacs are good, Jennifer Love-Hewitt is terrible. She in general is not a great actress but she is one with warmth and endearment, but with such a poorly written and undercooked role she tries way too hard.Overall, not Chan's worst, but rather weak. 4/10 Bethany Cox