An amiable, average-at-best caper-like quest remains just that, even with recognisable talent, and even more so when its combination of elements is clearly stretched.Ĭhan plays a professor (also named Chan) who is sought out by a younger Indian counterpart, Ashmita (Patani), to recover long-lost items dating back to 647AD. The rest of the cast - Indian actress/model Disha Patani, Bollywood star Sonu Sood, Chinese singer Lay Zhang and Hong Kong actor/singer Aarif Rahman - should increase the feature’s appeal in their respective homelands, but, while it has been sold widely throughout Asia and Europe, Kung Fu Yoga’s global prospects are far from assured. The latter element should draw a crowd when the film bows in several territories from January 27 to mark Chinese New Year, including the US and China, with Hong Kong and Indian releases slated the following week. What audiences will find in this East-meet-East effort is equal parts culture clash, cliché and star vehicle.Ĭhan gives the special effects-heavy offering some much-needed zest. What he discovers is a broad but fast-paced cross-cultural adventure-comedy.

Reuniting with Rumble in the Bronx director Stanley Tong for an Indo-Chinese mash-up of martial arts and Bollywood, the Hong Kong star plays one of China’s top archaeologists on a treasure hunt to locate ancient artifacts.

He’s flexed his fighting muscles, and showed his comic side now, in Kung Fu Yoga, Jackie Chan attempts an Indiana Jones moment.

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