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Anyway, Chan plays Jimmy Tong, a cab driver. He gets a job offer to chauffer a rich multi-zillionaire (Jason Issacs). When the car gets bombed by a skateboard (it's actually pretty funny), Jimmy's OK, but his employer is in the hospital. He puts on his superior's suit and he can do crazy stunts. Take it off and he's a bumbling nothing.
Then there's this whole scheme about poisioning water and the like (it's a clever jab at the bottled water craze) and Hewitt helps Jimmy solve the case. Believe me folks, it's not as bad as it sounds.
In fact, it was pretty good. Chan's stunts were the best from any of his movies and more outrageous than the Rush Hours, for sure. If he still did all his own stunts, then I salute him. They sure were a notch above his previous comedies. The humor, though not always high-brow, didn't stoop to levels like Austin Powers and such. Most of the humor was slapstick and pratfall, but it wasn't fish-out-of-water like Rush Hour.
The plot had enough complications for an action-comedy (maybe a few too many), but it left you feeling satisfied. Actually, the first words out of my mouth after viewing were "That was a pleasant diversion", which it was. Though impossibly not true to life, it created an alternate world, so to speak, where the good guys always win and the action is fun. Something that was odd about this movie is, although predictable, it had my heart going a few extra beats a minute during the ending fight sequence.
Enjoyably fun and funny, The Tuxedo is one movie that you may not remember in two years, but you won't be able to put on a tux without trying some of Chan's crazy stunts.
Rated PG-13 for action violence.
Review Date: October 26, 2002