Jackie Chan's First Strike

I am going to keep talking about Jackie Chan movies, and you're just gonna to have to live with it!

Jackie gets asked to watch a lady on a flight from Hong Kong to the Ukraine, and then take some time off. Instead, he ends up caught up in the theft and possible sale of a nuclear warhead to the Russian Mafia. Naturally, the leads to Jackie running around Australia again.

It's about as coherent as most of these movies have been, where things keep happening at a rapid enough pace the plot is holding together on centrifugal force as much as anything. Although the disappearance of Jackie's CIA contact just kind of happens. He gets knocked off a snowmobile and goes sliding down a slope, and he's just gone, poof! Jackie's briefly framed for murder, that gets cleared up by a five second cut to the police during the big final chase/fight sequence. I'm not at all clear on whether the guy who was selling the warhead got killed or not.

But, you know, you get a sequence where Jackie tries to explain he didn't kill someone to the man's bereaved family, and it turns into a fight where he's using a metal ladder to defend himself against four guys. Or he's scrambling around his hotel room dodging two Russian guys who are big enough it looks like they shaved a couple of bears. Or he falls off a helicopter landing strut into a freezing river. Which was actually shot in a freezing river. I think the ends of my fingers got sympathetic frostbite.

Or the underwater fight in the shark tank at the aquarium. That one was more funny than anything else, but it was funny.