Who am I? (a J!-ENT DVD Review)

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MOVIE COMPANY: Golden Harvest
CAST: Starring Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto and more.
DIRECTED BY: Directed by Jackie Chan and Benny Chan
PRODUCED BY: Leonard Ho and Barbie Tung
RATING: Rated PG-13
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0127357
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, Comedy
DURATION: 108 minutes

Left for dead after a brutal CIA double-cross, a lone commando (Chan) must struggle to regain his memory and expose an international espionage ring before they can unleash a powerful and lethal new energy source.  With the aid of two beautiful sidekicks, Jackie fights his way across continents and faces armed assassins and sinister plots at every turn.  For blistering action and adrenaline-pumping excitement nobody does it better than Jackie.

DVD EXTRAS:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, AC-3
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats

KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I could find.

DVD REVIEW:

When I bought this movie, I was expecting to see a really cool Jackie Chan flick and you get that and more with this movie.  There is a lot of action and certain fight scenes that makes you think…WOW!  How did he do that?  So, in the fight scene category, Jackie Chan delivers!  But in the acting department… this is one of the worse acted English-speaking Jackie Chan movie I have ever scene and no, I’m not talking about Jackie Chan…I’m talking about the other actors.

The moment when you start seeing the military characters act, I was wondering if it was dubbed over or what because the acting is so bad.  Also, this is one of the worst I have seen from the female characters, especially when you get to scenes of the women trying to jog Jackie’s memory.

The actual storyline is pretty cool and the many different areas that this movie is shot is pretty cool.   But unfortunately …(sigh)…the US release has been cut. So, we are not seeing the true version and unfortunately that just plainly sucks.

As for the DVD, the video quality is very good.  No major artifacts and the movie is colorful.  In the audio category, I’m glad that the movie was in Digital 5.1.  As for special features, again I don’t count trailers, menus, scene selections or foreign languages/subtitles, special features.  They should be there on the DVD.  So, leaving it at that…you don’t get squat in the special features department but the trailer and the added French track.  So, this is disappointing.

So, all in all this movie gets high marks for the action.  The movie is interesting but poorly acted in many categories.  Columbia did a great job with the GEN-X Cops DVD and I was hoping they would do the same with WHO AM I? but unfortunately, the lack of any special feature brings the rating down a bit for this movie.

THE MOVIE:  B-
THE DVD EXTRAS:  D-
THE DVD OVERALL:  C-