a5c7b9f00b A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor. In December 1941, The railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China became a key military transportation route, heavily guarded by Japanese soldiers. Ma Yuan, a railroad worker and his group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must rely on their wits to battle an entire army. One is never too late for a Jackie Chan&#39;s movie, especially a comedy action movie of his. First of all, the way the story plot being presented is very straight forward like, literally doing a presentation with sub-titles of what to expect in the sceneswe go along. It&#39;s clean cut in such a way and you won&#39;t feel any interruptions. And with the theme on, &#39;let&#39;s do something big in this lifetime&#39; coming out from average railroad workers, you know you are going to be in for rides filled with laughters. The bgm matched well with the scenes and helped to raise the dramatic-ness from the comedic aspects. <br/><br/>To me, the most crucial point of this movie fell on the good chemistry among the quite star-studded casts. They matched each other so well in their rhythms and one can really feel their comrades and brotherhood, which at times really what made their actions/sayings funny. There were many times that I was really laughing my heads off and I knew this movie is such feel-good humor movie worth watching. I like how Jackie Chan was not a one-man show in this movie and helped to bring out the acting skills of others casted in this movie through their interactions. In fact, it was an eye opening for me to see Wang Kai with his supposedly &#39;cool-I-know-what-I&#39;m-doing-in-war&#39; Fan Chuan character turned out to be a hilarious character with his constant &#39;rational&#39; thinking. Another hilarious character akin to Fan Chuan was the Japanese Captain played by Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, which I see in the movieto now wonder why he and Fan Chuan &#39;battling&#39; it out the most.<br/><br/>I got to admit that my initial thought before I started to watch this movie was half expecting it to be typical China-produced war era movie, focusing much on patriotism. However, despite this movie having its patriotic moment, it wasn&#39;t shove down the audience throat like the usual ones. The feeling of &quot;patriotism&quot; (wanting for the freedom fighters to win despite their average tricks and fighting skills) was somewhat built into meI watched the progress of how desperate this group of average men, dreaming of doing big thingsthey kept putting it in the movie, wanted to help the army to blow up the bridge. <br/><br/>I am not the type who rewatch but if I ever do catch this movie on TV or something, I won&#39;t mind rewatching just for the laughters. In December 1941, The railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China became a key military transportation route, heavily guarded by Japanese soldiers. Ma Yuan, a railroad worker and his group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must rely on their wits to battle an entire army. Railroad Tigers touches a subject of War and the plot does sound quite interesting unfortunately the final product is an unfunny slapstick comedy/war film starring Jackie Chan with awkward humor, action that is just boring to watch and the actual movie just doesn&#39;t know what it wants to be and honestly this might be one of Chan&#39;s worst films yet. It's a throwback to Chan's wham-bam action comedies of the past, and a pretty effective one, too.
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