Of course Jackie Chan and a horse are a perfect comedic duo

polygon.com:

From the late 1970s through the early 2000s, Jackie Chan established himself as one of the all-time great movie stars in a string of terrific action comedies, from Drunken Master to Project A to Wheels on Meals toPolice Story. His output has been a bit more serious lately: Recent years have seen the action legend starring in movies like the espionage thriller Vanguard, the revenge thriller The Foreigner, and the fantasy epic Iron Mask — all of which are various shades of dull and forgettable.

In 2023, he’s doing things a bit differently. Hidden Strike, which was in production for about half a decade, appropriately served as a bit of a transition film for this latest period of Chan’s career. Half serious action, half buddy comedy with John Cena, it’s a solid enough straight-to-streaming action movie that shines more when it leans into the comedy pairing of its two stars. After that came the impishly funny Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, where Chan shines as the voice of the Turts’ caring rat dad, Splinter.

And Chan completes his 2023 trilogy with Ride On, which hit theaters in limited release in April, and is now out on digital and on home video. This latest comedy leans even further into the slapstick martial arts movies that made Chan an international household name in the first place. And this time, his co-star is a horse.

While Ride On doesn’t reach the frantic, joyful highs of Chan’s best collaborations with childhood friends Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, it’s still an enjoyable comedic entry in the career of one of the all-time great movie stars. It’s a throwback to a bygone era of Hong Kong and action-comedy filmmaking, end-credits blooper/stunt reel and all.

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