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RIDE ON Review: Jackie Chan Trots Out Fun Family Drama And Excitement With A Love Letter To His Roots

Ride On is now available in U.S. theaters from Well Go USA Action star Jackie Chan turned 69 this past weekend, just in time for the arrival of his newest film, Ride On, which stands to invite more brouhaha from fans who’ve long taken note of the last decade or so of blurbs making the rounds of the actor’s retirement from the action genre. Invariably, the requisite cat-and-mouse set pieces and fight sequencing with Chan outrunning goons between punches and kicks with gags are ripe for the taking in Yang’s fifth and latest movie, but the effort toward a poignant, more substantive, and drama-heavy push isn’t wasted. At the core of Ride On is the celebration of industry in Hong Kong cinema, one specifically focused on the stunt community that so notably underscored the field as it did in the eighties and nineties. Vignettes and easter eggs highlighting moments from […]

RIDE ON Trailer: Well Go USA Saddles Up Jackie Chan’s April 7 Release

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Well Go USA is putting the North American Jackie Chan fandom on notice with Ride On, the new flick from director Larry Yang. An April 7 release has been slated to coincide the film’s mainland China release on the same day, and the distro outlet now has its own poster and trailer to help ramp up the domestic marketing following their acquisition of the pic in Berlin last month. After two debt collectors attempt to seize a stunt horse belonging to washed-up stuntman Luo (Jackie Chan), video of the ensuing confrontation—and the dynamic duo’s narrow acrobatic escape—goes viral on social media. Furious at being humiliated online, the debt collectors return to seek revenge, leaving Luo and Red Hare to engage in a series of hilarious, action-packed antics that outdo even the most daring acts from their glory days. Chan is joined by Liu Haocun, Kevin Guo, Wu Jing, Yu Ailei, […]

Trailer: Jackie Chan Giddies Up For The Story Of A Man And His Horse In RIDE ON

Lee B. Golden III

I’ve all but given up on caring if or when actor and screen legend Jackie Chan “retires” as he’s so claimed time and again that he would in the past decade. He’s lived a colorful and extravagant daredevil life that’s earned him his fame and fandom, and so while the hype nowadays may not be as big and bolstering as it was in the 80s, 90s and the 000s, the love is still there, as is his audience, all who now wait for his latest screen galavanting in writer/director Larry Yang’s Ride On. A washed-up stuntman and his stunt horse become an overnight social media sensation when their real-life fight with debt collectors goes viral. The film already saw one trailer when a release date was set for last year. A new trailer is now online ahead of an April 7 release in China and you’re invited to check out […]