BULLETPROOF MONK-2003-In 1943 Tibet a
monk with no name (Yun-Fat Chow) is given the task of protecting a
sacred scroll that could grant anyone who reads it great power. The
Nazis invade their temple and kill everyone except the monk who
falls off a cliff after being shot at. 60 years later, the monk
hasn't aged much and lives above a movie theater (run by Mako) in
Toronto. He saves a young girl named Jade (Jamie King) stuck on the
subway tracks with the help of a stupid thief Kar (Seann William
Scott) who steals the scroll. After saving Kar from a street gang the
monk decides to take the thief (who learned martial arts from
watching old Shaw Brothers movies) under his wing. Strucker, the
German who shot at him in the temple (Karel Roden) is now old but
head of a huge corporation searching for the scroll with the help of
his grand-daughter in the hope of it making him young again. After
being pursued and hiding out with some other monks, the monk trains
the thief to kind of be his replacement. When the monk is captured,
Kar and Jade team up to save him.
Chow is great in the title role
and the fights, especially in the climax are well done. It's just too
bad the thief character wasn't more likable. Video music director
Paul Hunter does an excellent job in his feature film debut, a feat
many others have tried and failed miserably at.
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