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The Spy Next Door Jackie Chan was once Asian cinema's greatest special effect: a one man fireball of high octane chopsocky action -- all rapid fists, scissor legs and spinning body parts.

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The spy next door cast

Jackie Chan   
   
Amber Valletta   
   
Madeline Carroll   

Will Shadley   

Alina Foley   

Magnús Scheving   
   
Billy Ray Cyrus   
   
George Lopez   
   
Katherine Boecher   
   
Mia Stallard   
   
Maverick McWilliams   
   
Quinn Mason   
   
Margaret Murphy   
   
Esodie Geiger   
   
Arron Shiver   

 Lucas Till   
   
Richard Christie   

The spy next door overview

 

 The Spy Next Door Jackie Chan was once Asian cinema’s greatest special effect: a one man fireball  of high octane chopsocky action – all rapid fists, scissor legs and spinning body parts. Now 55, the old gray mare, as they say, just ain’t what she used to be. Those famously elastic limbs don’t move so fast

no more and the lickety-split pace has slowed to (at best) a brisk drive in a souped-up gopher.

Chan made the transition from Hong Kong to Hollywood in the mid 90s, and although he returns to the motherland every so often to make a home grown flick things have never been the same. American tripe like The Tuxedo, The Medallion and Shanghai Knights have increasingly shaped the once great star of Drunken Master and Police Story into a veritable kung fool. Jingle All the Way director Brian LeVant’s flimsy family flick The Spy Next Door is the latest in a seemingly endless array of embarrassments.

Bob (Chan) is a CIA operative by day; by night he dons daggy clothes and thick rimmed classes and pretends to be a mild-mannered homebody. He’s dating the woman next door, Gillian (Amber Valetta), and wants to take their relationship to the next level but her three young children don’t much like Bob (and who could blame them?) so when Gillian leaves to visit a sick family member Bob takes on babysitting duties in an attempt to establish rapport with them. He must put the kids to bed, make their meals, drive them to school and so on. Inadvertently everybody gets embroiled in a juvenile subplot involving Russian espionage and a plan to take over the world’s oil supply a yada yada.

The ol’ bones don’t move like they used to but Chan is determined to maintain his gung ho image, even as it pathetically evolves into smoke and mirrors, blaring falsification and tired rehashes. In most of The Spy Next Door’s action scenes Chan delivers not much more than a flick of the wrists and a wiggle of the hips, as if that’s supposed to tide us over.

In the more spectacular stunts he is aided by CGI and stunt doubles. Seeing somebody else clearly doing the legendary star’s dirty/dangerous work – remember this is a man who became famous because he did his own stunts, not because he could ever act – is a sad and sobering experience, akin to watching Pavarotti miming or Hendrix following guitar tabs. To say it breaks the legend is an understatement. Ol’ give-it-a-rest Chan seems determined to go the way of the stubborn old donkey in Animal Farm: “must…work….harder” as the mind continues well past the point at which his body can keep up.

Worse yet, the connecting-with-the-kids elements of The Spy Next Door’s storyline actually require some emotional substance, which Chan can’t deliver. He has all the charisma of a leg of ham and the emotional depth of a piece of dried chicken skin.

 

The spy next door review

When even the out-take bloopers over the final credits are weak, you know you've got a pretty under-par jackie chan movie on your hands. Chan plays Bob, who is shyly romancing his single-mum neighbour Gillian, played by Amber Valletta. She thinks he is a pen salesman, and her kids hate him for being boring. Actually, he is an international spy from the Chinese intelligence services on loan to the CIA, and he has to save Gillian's kids from fiendish Russkie villains. Good-natured stuff, of course; Chan's stunts are still impressive and he's never anything other than likable. But that "thinking" expression he does before saying an emotional line – well, you can hear the acting creak.Jackie Chan was once Asian cinema’s greatest special effect: a one man fireball of high octane chopsocky action – all rapid fists, scissor legs and spinning body parts. Now 55, the old gray mare, as they say, just ain’t what she used to be. Those famously elastic limbs don’t move so fast no more and the lickety-split pace has slowed to (at best) a brisk drive in a souped-up gopher.

Chan made the transition from Hong Kong to Hollywood in the mid 90s, and although he returns to the motherland every so often to make a home grown flick things have never been the same. American tripe like The Tuxedo, The Medallion and Shanghai Knights have increasingly shaped the once great star of Drunken Master and Police Story into a veritable kung fool. Jingle All the Way director Brian LeVant’s flimsy family flick The Spy Next Door is the latest in a seemingly endless array of embarrassments.