{"id":569662,"date":"2023-04-07T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-ride-on-review-jackie-chans-sentimental-but-fun-stuntman-comedy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T00:20:07","slug":"watch-ride-on-review-jackie-chans-sentimental-but-fun-stuntman-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ride-on-review-jackie-chans-sentimental-but-fun-stuntman-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Ride On&#8217; Review: Jackie Chan&#8217;s Sentimental but Fun Stuntman Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bd6fdf2068\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bd6fdf2068\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ride-on-review-jackie-chans-sentimental-but-fun-stuntman-comedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Ride_On_Review_Jackie_Chans_Sentimental_but_Fun_Stuntman_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Ride On&#8217; Review: Jackie Chan&#8217;s Sentimental but Fun Stuntman Comedy&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-ride-on-review-jackie-chans-sentimental-but-fun-stuntman-comedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Ride_On_Review_Jackie_Chans_Sentimental_but_Fun_Stuntman_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Ride On&#8217; Review: Jackie Chan&#8217;s Sentimental but Fun Stuntman Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Ride_On_Review_Jackie_Chans_Sentimental_but_Fun_Stuntman_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Ride On&#8217; Review: Jackie Chan&#8217;s Sentimental but Fun Stuntman Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Ride_On_Review_Jackie_Chans_Sentimental_but_Fun_Stuntman_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Ride On&#8217; Review: Jackie Chan&#8217;s Sentimental but Fun Stuntman Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Watch any of the films that made Jackie Chan a legend and you notice that so much of his graceful, goofball charisma comes from simply having one more move up his sleeve. Whether changing position while sliding down a plate-glass skyscraper or falling off a clock face onto a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of awnings or dispatching multiple assailants with his witty brand of bendy, aerobic kung-fu, only to end on a silly eye-poke or a gymnastic semi-levitation, the star-making flourish is so often the extra thing he does when anyone else would be finished. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But what do you do when, nearing 70 and with almost 150 movie performances behind you, there aren\u2019t that many one-more-moves left? Maybe you make something like Larry Yang\u2019s \u201cRide On,\u201d a s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y but enjoyable slice of family fun that has a nice horse doing wacky tricks for the younger viewers and for parents and older fans, is a gently meta, valedictory canter through the paddock of Chan\u2019s previous achievements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Chan plays Luo, a once-successful stuntman (which gives Yang the excuse to include always-welcome footage of Chan\u2019s stunt work through the decades) who has fallen \u2014 through sheets of sugar glass and scaffolding, no doubt \u2014 on hard times. Now, accompanied only by Red Hare, the beloved horse he nursed to health from a sickly foal, Luo is reduced to extra work and to dressing them both up in goofy costumes to lure tourists into photo ops. But even this threadbare dog-and-pony existence is under threat. Luo is in debt. Collector Dami (Andy On) and his henchmen try to take Red Hare as collateral, but video of man and horse cartoonishly humiliating the goons goes viral, which both enrages Dami and rekindles interest in Luo\u2019s stunt expertise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Still, lawyers come to Luo\u2019s house \u2014 more a repurposed, open-air dojo\/stable where he used to train his stuntmen \u201cdisciples\u201d and which has many a useful exposed beam\/loose ladder lying about \u2014 and announce their intention to repossess Red Hare. In distress, Luo, who refers to the horse as his son, turns to his estranged human daughter, Bao (Liu Haocun), who is now studying for her law degree and has a just-qualified fianc\u00e9 Mickey (Kevin Guo). Bao is hesitant, but eventually sees her father for the penitent parent he now is, being especially moved by his bond with her equine \u201cbrother.\u201d They reconcile, but she wants him to stop putting himself and Red Hare in danger doing stunt work, just when they are getting back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> \u2014 cue a fun montage of Chan in elaborate costumes, many of them nodding to his previous hits, performing horseback hijinks on the sets of various action epics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In truth, the emotional landscape of \u201cRide On\u201d is painted with a brush so broad it\u2019s basically a roller, with Chan\u2019s charm and Liu\u2019s radiant Neutrogena wholesomeness just about compensating for Yang\u2019s screenplay, which keeps having to manufacture new rifts to be magically healed with a change of heart, a hug and couple of close-ups. Lao Zai\u2019s inescapable, saccharine scoring is so thickly slathered on that it makes the actually moving moments feel unnecessarily manipulative, and there really is no earthly reason why Yang and editor Super Zhang couldn\u2019t have reined this thing in at less than 126 minutes long.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But it\u2019s hard to stay mad at a movie where part of the bagginess is a result of the generous impulse to  salute the often undervalued contributions of stunt teams and to pay tribute to an unparalleled action legend getting back into the saddle one more time. Because as much as Yang goes for, and sometimes reaches, the emotional jugular in the father\/daughter story, that\u2019s not where the heart of \u201cRide On\u201d really resides. Instead it\u2019s in the fights, which are a little more chopped-up and less fluid than they might once have been but are still defiantly done for real even though, as a CG-happy director tells Luo later on, \u201cno one falls for real these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And in the near-obsolete stuntman \u201ccode\u201d that Luo clings to, \u201cRide On\u201d gets further unexpected  resonance. To watch a rapt, gently rueful Chan observing his younger self performing some crazy feat of athleticism and bravado, like the umbrella-bus-chase sequence from \u201cPolice Story,\u201d is a perfect portrait of the quandary that is the passage of time for an artist whose youthful, elastic recklessness was always so much part of his appeal. \u201cJumping down is easy,\u201d Luo tells an ex-student who has gone on to be a star stuntman in his own right, \u201cStepping down is hard.\u201d For all its four-quadrant family friendliness, \u201cRide On\u201d also feels like Chan, his legacy intact and unimpeachable, not stepping down so much as gracefully stepping across \u2014 to the beginning of a new chapter, perhaps, as the elder statesman of the somersault, the scissor-kick and the death-defying stunt. 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