Time to weep and sigh for Jackie Chan, folks, because the man’s career is not what it once was. Even back around a year or so ago, when he was frantically telling anyone who’d listen that Chinese communism was the bee’s knees and that too much freedom is bad for people (okay, comrade, I said it–can you puh-leeese point the flamethrower AWAY from my baby’s head now?), it wasn’t doing very well except IN China. Now, it’s even worse.
Apparently a trailer has just emerged for Jackie Chan’s upcoming slow head-shake of a role, The Spy Next Door. Chan will be playing a secret agent stuck babysitting his neighbors’ kids for the night and at the same time fending off a horde of rival secret agents, hopefully without waking the babies.
I want to believe that this will be one of Chan’s excellent comedy / action fusions, but with a setup like that, and a career like his has been lately, I just can’t see it.
