DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION
Two of five stars
Cast: Justin Chatwin, Jamime Ching,
Emmy Rossum, Chow Yun-fat
Director: James Wong
Running time: 1 hour 24 minutes
Industry rating: PG for intense sequences
of action/violence and brief mild language.
By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
We've had to wait decades, enduring first subtitled Hong Kong films and later sputtering Hollywood attempts at turning him into a conventional Chinese character actor, for our first chance to see the great Chow Yun-Fat cut up the way he does in "Dragonball Evolution." Whatever the director (James Wong of "Final Destination") was going for, whatever the studio intended in this film adaptation of a beloved comic and video game, Chow saw his chance to chew the scenery. And he took it.
As Master Roshi, mystical martial arts master, owner of a dragonball and of late, trainer to young Goku (Justin Chatwin), Chow goes for the laughs, and lands them.
"Believe it punk, you're gonna get your clock cleaned," he says when we and Goku meet him. He mugs. He grins. His every move is a calculated bit of tomfoolery. And he's a stitch, almost the only reason to see this warmed-over Far Eastern fantasy.
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