The Adventurers

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.

Legendary actor Jean reno(león the profesional a classic movie,ronin,crimson rivers,wasabi,the squad) creates a likable, sympathetic carácter in this international production movie. This is necessary for the comic relief of the movie. The camera-work was particularly masterful - creative, meticulous high level production.. There are few a particular cool action scenes towards the climax that are amazing.The international cast are part of the experience. Yes, there are some credibility factors but it is after all only a movie.The producers should produce a sequel to this great movie

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.

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.

Gotta be honest here, I turned it off about halfway through so I'll give it a five rating. Just in case it somehow switched the entire cast, the plot, the special effects guy, the script, the editor, the endless production companies and their credits and anything else connected with this movie. Miracles can happen.

I'll say one thing.. the movie is almost a throwback to 1950's big American studio productions set in Europe. You know the ones, they always featured swaggering laughing self-confident Americans doing wondrous things amidst the baffled and sluggish Europeans. As a sign of those times and American confidence, every one of those movies is unwatchable now.

I suspect in a few years as China pretty much takes over the world this movie will be seen as insightful into their viewpoint.