Skiptrace Review – AVClub
AVClub: “You’re no spring chicken,” says an American gambler to his Chinese friend midway through the East-West action extravaganza Skiptrace. It’s a put-down that’s meant less for the character than the guy playing him. Since Jackie Chan has been kidding his age on screen for at least a decade now, the joke hardly feels fresh, but as there’s an inherent fascination in watching idols age, this otherwise mediocre film has a certain elegiac power. It opens like a parody (or maybe a rip-off) of any number of Hong Kong policiers, with Chan’s upstanding Bennie watching his partner die during a drug raid gone wrong; as the film goes on, he’ll gain a new sidekick in the form of Connor Watts (Johnny Knoxville), a skeezy gambler who’s decamped to China after getting exiled from homegrown casinos, and whose path crosses with the super cop’s through plot machinations too complex to synopsize here.
