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 Movie
B+ |
Video A | Audio A+
| Extras B-
Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Isaacs,
Debi Mazar,
Peter Stormare, and James Brown
director Kevin Donovan | DreamWorks Home Entertainment
2002 | Action Comedy | PG-13 | 99 minutes
Region 1 | DVD-9
(layer switch at beginning of Chapter 14)
anamorphic
widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio (also
available separately is a full screen version)
DTS 5.1 |
Dolby Digital 5.1
Summary: Jackie Chan stars as Jimmy Tong, a
big city taxi cab driver with a low-paying dead-end job. He is very
good at what he does, however, getting his passengers across town through
deadlock traffic in record time. His big break comes when he is
hired as a billionaire's personal chauffeur. Now, Jimmy "goes
places" with his boss, big parties and important fund raisers.
Though his debonair boss seems like an extraordinary nice guy, Jimmy
realizes that he is a secret agent for CSA (a fictional national security
agency) when someone tries to take them out. At the request of his
boss, Jimmy takes up a new identity and puts on the Tuxedo, an
experimental Tactical Uniform eXperiment.
With this prototype tuxedo, Jimmy acquires many new skills, from marshal arts
to demolition to singing and dancing. The tuxedo promises to turn
any ordinary man into a superhuman.
With help from a newbie CSA lab
rat-just-turned-field agent, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jimmy takes
on the case of the mysterious bottled drinking water mogul. Now,
Jimmy introduces himself as "James, James Tong" (geez, that
sounds a lot like "Bond, James Bond"). He drives a BMW Z8,
though not outfitted with cool spy equipment like 007. Who needs car
options when you have The Tuxedo? Completing the master spy
image, the music sounds like something directly from a James Bond movie
soundtrack at times. The marshal arts and fight sequences take after The
Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, of course, with a
Jackie Chan slap-stick twist.
The picture quality is top notch, thanks to a
first-rate video transfer. The
DTS soundtrack sounds full and
absolutely wonderful. As an action-comedy, The Tuxedo will
have you laughing and cheering Jackie Chan on during the classic Jackie
Chan-style action sequences. And that's all good. But
ultimately, it's a far cry from Jackie Chan's best movies. Fans of
Jackie Chan and action-comedy flicks should not miss out on The Tuxedo,
even if it's a rental. (Get it?)
Special Features: "The Cutting Room
Floor" with 9 deleted scenes, 3 extended scenes, and outtakes and
bloopers (basically it's Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love
Hewitt giggling helplessly throughout the entire movie!); "HBO First
Look: Tailor Made for Jackie Chan" featurette; theatrical trailer;
cast; filmmakers; and production notes
DVD released on 2/25/2003 | Reviewed 3/5/2003
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Additional Notes: Unless we specify otherwise, the
video and audio quality are very good when their grades are "A-"
or better. Only the highest number of channels of surround sound
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Associated equipment used in evaluation: Sony
DVP-S7700 reference DVD player, Sony
KP-61V45 61" rear projection TV (4:3 screen aspect ratio), Sony ES STR-V444ES A/V receiver, four
B&W CDM 9NTs as left/right main speakers
and left/right surrounds, B&W CDM CNT center channel speaker, Monster Cable M-series S-Video cable MSV-500, Monster
Cable Interlink LightSpeed 100 (Toslink) optical cable, Monster Cable
Interlink 400 MKII interconnects, Monster Cable
Original speaker cables in bi-wire configuration with Monster Cable twist-on gold-plated banana plug
connectors, Lovan Sovereign T HiFi audio
rack, and Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Our home theater equipment was calibrated
with the Video
Essentials DVD.
Be sure to check out our Top 10 DVDs of the year
2001 and our list of this year's Oscar winners on DVD.
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