Comedic fight scenes, car chases and broken English: The tried and true formula of a classic Jackie Chan movie. Unfortunately, the formula wasn't enough to save "The Tuxedo." Starting out on a distasteful and random note, a scenic waterfall ruined by a close-up of a urinating deer, the movie only managed to become more ridiculous. The movie features Jackie Chan as Jimmy Tong, a reckless taxi driver who has a hard time with the ladies. His life is turned upside down when he meets a woman who, impressed by his fast driving, offers him a job to chauffeur CSA special agent Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs of "Black Hawk Down")

Tong is befriended by Devlin and consequently forced into taking his place as an agent when Delvin is injured by a bomb. While in Mr. Devlin's room, Tong discovers a special tuxedo that has the capabilities to enable the wearer to perform numerous skilled tasks, from fighting to dancing. Tong uses this suit to aid him in his mission to stop Diedrich Banning (played by Ritchie Coster of "The Thomas Crown Affair") from implementing his evil plan for world domination by way of contaminating water supplies with dehydrating parasites.

Since every agent needs a partner, Tong is matched up with pretentious CSA agent Del Blaine, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Together they attempt to fumble their way into uncovering the secrets of Banning's company before it is too late.

"Nice Rack." This simple phrase, repeated numerous times throughout the movie, summed up Hewitt's character, whose breasts could not even hide deplorable acting. Her whiny persona quickly becomes old and even her pouty lips cannot salvage such a pathetic excuse for acting. Her fighting endeavors are laughable at best, yet she somehow manages to beat the bad guys every time. Ditzy as always, Hewitt plays the stereotypical siren who uses her looks to full advantage, such as when her cleavage gains Blaine and Tong entrance to a show.

Using his patented fighting techniques of martial arts combined with slapstick comedy, Chan manages to please. Unfortunately, his antics aren't enough to save the script or the plot of the movie. Also, Chan's acting skills are unfortunately incomparable to his talent in the martial arts. The clueless foreigner facade worked better in "Rush Hour," in which he played someone who is not from the United States.

In addition, the majority of the jokes are childish and mundane. Aside from the peeing deer, the script constantly makes fun of Hewitt's chest. The greater part of the plot should be considered a joke. Benning's idea for putting dehydrating parasites into the water so people would be forced to buy more is a ludicrous plan for world domination and more likely to kill off the population than conquer it. Furthermore, the use of a tuxedo as a high-tech fighting uniform able to allow the wearer to do almost anything, including climbing walls and imitating voices is exciting, but barely plausible, even with all the fancy technology in today's spy movies.

A cameo by James Brown is another effort to save the movie; Brown's cameo, however, fails miserably. The singing legend's moment in the spotlight is fleeting, as Chan quickly knocks him unconscious with his careless use of the tuxedo's combative reflexes. The cameo becomes even more disturbing as Chan takes his place on stage and uses the suit to imitate Brown's voice. The crowd roars in approval, but there is only so much one can take of close up shots of Chan's booty shaking.

In general, the quality of the film wasn't much worse than the majority of Chan's movies, which are more special effects-centered than plot-centered anyway. Because of the limited entertaining aspects of this movie, it is only worth the money for a die-hard Jackie Chan fanatic.