![]() A lively closing dance sequence, after an earnest, underwhelming climax, pays affectionate tribute to Bollywood production numbers. Chan the opportunity to mug, share a car chase scene with a lion (seemingly with a digital assist) and thwart assailants in a pallid variation on his acrobatics of old. Chan’s frequent collaborator Stanley Tong (“ Supercop,” “Rumble in the Bronx”), mostly affords Mr. Snakes, in “Indiana Jones” style, play an occasional supporting role.ĭespite its subtext about the economic rivalry between China and India, the film, written and directed by Mr. ![]() Also seeking the ancient riches, for sympathetic ends, is a gorgeous South Asian yoga practitioner (Disha Patani), and, for evil ones, an Indian patrician (Sonu Sood). Here he plays Jack Chan, a professor of antiquities in China, who leads students as well as his martial-arts-trained nephew ( Aarif Rahman, performing much of the fisticuffs) in a treasure hunt that takes them to the China-India border (Iceland stands in) Dubai and Jaipur, India. But he does not wield a whip nor wear a fedora nor, for that matter, display the vigor of a young Harrison Ford or a young Jackie Chan. “I love Indiana Jones,” Jackie Chan’s character says at one point in “ Kung Fu Yoga.” And in this harmless romp, Mr.
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