The Tuxedo - danger in the suit

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Movie
German title The Tuxedo - danger in the suit
Original title The tuxedo
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kevin Donovan
script Michael Leeson ,
Michael J. Wilson
production Adam Schroeder ,
John H. Williams
music Christophe Beck ,
John Debney
camera Glen Keenan ,
Anthony Nocera ,
Stephen F. Windon
cut Craig Herring
occupation

The Tuxedo - danger in the suit ( The Tuxedo ) is an American action comedy by Kevin Donovan from the year 2002 . The main roles were played by Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt .

action

Notorious for his driving skills, taxi driver Jimmy Tong is hired to work as a driver for secret agent Clark Devlin. The wealthy Devlin has a high-tech Smoking (Engl. Tuxedo ) worth two billion dollars, which gives him extraordinary powers. During one of the first trips together, a remote-controlled bomb is sent on a skateboard behind the car on which a transmitter was previously placed.

Tong manages to escape the bomb for a while, but maneuvers himself into a dead end. Just before the car explodes, Devlin and Tong pull open the doors and run away. When they rise from their cover again, both seem unharmed at first. But after Devlin asked if Tong was unharmed, he suddenly collapses, obviously injured by a splinter in his head. Before he loses consciousness, he asks Tong to wear the suit and to find a certain "Walter Strider". After that, with the last of his strength, he changes the name on his driver's license and is taken to a hospital under a false identity.

Devlin's superiors have decided to monitor a Dietrich Banning. The young agent Del Blaine is assigned to contact Devlin about it. Blaine and Devlin have never met before, however, and since Tong also has his cell phone, she gets into him. Tong uses the suit to finish the first surveillance assignment badly. Among other things, the suit attacks Blaine when she tries to grab Tong by the shoulder and knocks her to the ground. Since Blaine is not privy to the suit experiment and assumes she has Devlin in front of her, she thinks he is crazy. When she tells her colleague about it, she only says that Devlin is an eccentric.

At the same time, Banning is conducting an experiment: A new microbe is to be tested that can contaminate water supplies. This microbe is administered to a power-hungry employee, which literally breaks down to dust, as the microbes remove the water from the body on a molecular basis.

Over time, Blaine and Tong find out what Banning is up to: He wants to contaminate all of the world's water supplies in order to sell his water very dearly. However, they cannot explain how he intends to put his plan into practice. Meanwhile, Tong is revealed by Blaine, who takes off the suit and sends him home. Shortly after Blaine and Tong split up, Blaine is taken into custody by Banning's henchmen. Blaine deceives her loyalty to Banning by handing him the suit and informing him of its supernatural powers.

When Tong wants to write a letter to Devlin, in which he explains his failure, it is striking that "Walter Strider" no person is but an animal: This is about the Sandpiper , in English Water Strider . So it becomes clear how Banning wants to distribute this microbe, namely via this aquatic insect.

Blaine and Tong, who found a second suit in his closet, compete against Banning, who has now put on the first suit, in a decisive battle. Tong succeeds in hurling the contaminated queen of the specially bred water striders into Banning's mouth. So Banning dies, and the water striders do not swarm out without their queen.

In the end, the special unit supports Tong on a "personal mission" with regard to the lady of his heart, which fails, but Tong emerges stronger. Devlin, who has since recovered, is also there.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that even halfway through the movie you couldn't make sense of the plot. Jackie Chan is not claimed enough in the film. There are some funny scenes in which any actor with a bad accent can play.

Jonathan Curiel wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle of September 27, 2002 that it was a pleasure to see Jackie Chan in the film. However, unlike Robin Williams or Jerry Seinfeld, he cannot carry a comedy on his own. Curiel praised supporting actors Jason Isaacs and Ritchie Coster.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on September 27, 2002 that the film was silly. Ebert wrote that he even liked Jackie Chan in the bad films.

"Pleasantly entertaining, lavish action comedy that hardly shows off Chan's martial arts skills and parodies his previous roles just as much as the genre of the James Bond film."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jackie Chan won the Kids' Choice Award in 2003 . Jackie Chan also received another nomination for this award.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

background

The film was shot from September 10, 2001 to January 2002 in Canada . Production costs amounted to about 60 million US dollars , the film played in US cinemas USD 50.2 million a.

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  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  2. ↑ Review by Jonathan Curiel
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  4. Jump up ↑ The Tuxedo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ^ Awards for The Tuxedo
  6. ^ Box office / business for The Tuxedo

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