The Adventurers

Overall story is a bit mediocre for my taste, I've seen the concept of the high class super thief before, which is fine, but Andy Lau brings nothing new to the formula. Well, except for being Andy Lau who I'm just staring to discover and really like. He's starred in better Asian cinema, however, Like another film he released this year, Shock wave which was impressive.

The formula has been done. Andy Lau plays an amazing thief, who wants to retire but first he goes after the holy grail of his career while a French police officer hunts him down like he's his Moby Dick.

Although if you are really into heist movies  no doubt this will get you going, but Despite how much I'm liking Andy Lau these days (The whole reason I went to see the movie), his performance or anyone else in the movie did not spark any interest for me.

This is not really a review, it should be taken more as a collection of impressions of the film.

Sufficient action movie that manages to entertain even if it has a really trivial plot and an ending that fails to adequately close the film, that is, it manages to close the main story and some secondary ones but leaves one of the main secondary stories hanging without any sense . So the film as a plot is really trivial but as an unpretentious action film it does well and entertains which in the end is its job since this film clearly wants to be just mere entertainment without the slightest effort.

This could be a ripoff of any action thriller film released in the last 25 years. Andy Lau and Jean Reno are wasted here and give their worst performance from what I have seen. Not even a single thing is there that hasn't been shown in another film in a much better way. A lot of the dialogues and situations were laughable or else simply predictable. It's Shu Qi that made the film a little bearable even though the character isn't well written. There were some decent chase sequences too but overall very lacklustre and there is no adventure here.

Here's The Lowedown on "The Adventurers" (NR - 2017 - China)...It's good to be free.

Genre: Action/Heist My Score: 6.7

Cast=8 Acting=8 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=5 Violent=5 Pace=4 F/X=7 Heist=8 Chem=7

The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French detective, they'll have to take their game to the next level.

"Just because you're out of prison doesn't mean you're really free." This was a pretty solid heist movie with a good cast. I had some pace issues in the middle and it had a strange half Mandarin / half English dialogue. I think they could have shaved about 10 minutes out of the middle and the pace would be better. It was still a fun movie, just not quite as much as I hoped.

This movie could have been better. Jean Reno and Andy Lau play good roles, but the rest of the cast and acting was just so-so. Some great location vistas and a lot of good action. But the writing was stale and in some cases way too obvious. Some of the dialogue and plot build up was too predictable. The high-tech gadgetry tried to be Bond-like or MI-like, but it was too contrived in parts. Overall, not a bad movie, but a bit stale, predictable with an otherwise competent cast and plot.