Be Reel: Kung Fu Yoga

It felt like watching a sequel to a series I never knew of.
For a comedy action movie, it did a decent job, but there were some parts that were clearly overdone. For special effects, I took notice that this wasn’t an american produced film, but they were exceptionally bad. There was a specific scene in which three of the characters are fighting off hyenas (all of them are CGI) and the amount of unnecessary flips and use of parkour made it more ridiculous than intense. There was also a scene with a clearly fictional Lion in a car chase scene, but this scene was better executed, whereas the hyena scene was drawn out. In the car chase scene, there was a good amount of humor mixed into the action so it wasn't too intense, and the shot changes between the intense sport car chase and Jackie Chan driving while being scared of a Lion helped emphasize the humor. There's also a decent use of humor with Dialogue where a character is saying "Don't Panic" as he's clearly shaking while driving the car. From an objective view, the animation was decent and didn't effect the move too much. From a subjective view, the animation was one of the few things that stuck to me after finishing the movie.
Moving to the plot and characters, this is where things get a little contradictory. Not only was I thoroughly confused through this film, but mildly entertained as well. All characters are fairly two dimensional and don't have a consistent personality. One character is all about honoring someone, steals something, and then feels guilt and tries to steal it back. Not only was the sudden plot conflict strange and out of place, but from a subjective view it felt forced and only used to make the movie longer. It felt similar to reading a story someone wrote, but wrote the scene that started the conflict last. I thought that this would be the most obscure this movie would get, but boy was I wrong. Not only do the main group have a few questionably morale scenes, but the main antagonist of this movie has a complete 180 in motivation. Not only was the ending anticlimactic, but completely ridiculous and no characters really dealt with consequences. Even with all these negative points, I did find this a fairly enjoyable movie to watch. To bring this back to my first sentence, this felt like a sequel of a movie I've never seen, all character relationships we were supposed to feel were barely there. This is the kind of movie that I would watch if I had nothing to watch and was browsing through Netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U2frOcCYes