"Ji qi zhi xue" tells teh story of a cop and father who has to face a radioactive villain in order to save his daughter and the world.

It kind of feels like the producers took many good things and used them just a little too excessively. While I appreciate the mixture between action, sci-fi and comedy, all of these elements feel a bit exaggerated at times. There are just a ton of explosions, sci-fi elements that don't really match the logic and the comedy sometimes turns a bit silly. If you take these exeggagerations away, what remains is actually a decent film, nothing specctacular but solidly produced and entertaining.

All in all this is a nice distraction for a quiet evening but it is lacking the consequence to be something bigger than that.

BLEEDING STEEL is the latest production from Chinese superstar Jackie Chan and a big step down from his work on the tight and realistic THE FOREIGNER. This one's a return to bloated, big budget mainland Chinese super-adventure, this time with a sci-fi edge as Jackie's aged cop battles armour-clad goons and synthetic super-humans. I had the misfortune to watch the Lionsgate release, which offers horrid dubbing for Jackie's co-stars, but dubbing aside the film is a mixed bag. The beginning and ending offer lavish action spectacle which isn't too bad, albeit cheesy, but the slow middle section is all teen romance and unfunny comedy with an Australian setting. I think Jackie needs to work abroad more to make more of an impact these days.

Officer Lin (Jackie Chan) must combat evil bioroids, a "perfect synergy of body and machine."

The film is in both Chinese and English with double running subtitles in case you are learning a language. The bad guy is named "Leeson" which appears to be a combination of Liam Neeson. The film utilizes a lot of flash backs to back fill the plot which was not very confusing in spite of attempts to make it awkward.

The sets looked sleek and futuristic as did the bad guys, who appear they can easily kill any man except Jackie Chan, whose name was used once in the film. The production includes tons of fight scenes to go along with a plot and dialogue that reflects bad Chinese "juvenile" film writing. There were 2 F-words in the film that were not well delivered, and one near one, making the target audience young teens.

The film was more enjoyable in the beginning with a lot of promise, even after they killed everyone in the first scene. It then slowly made its way into a too predictable Chinese script that love Disney endings more than Disney.