Little Big Soldier (7/10)

Jackie Chan did good. Both with the acting and with his screenplay. I'm very surprised that this didn't suck one bit.Although the story was in no way fantastic as it was pretty much linear throughout, but what it did was entertain.  What Chan did with the characters was very smart. He's the one who dislike fighting and Wang Leehom was the one who had the most fight scenes. What lacked here though was the choreography which wasn't able to look good on camera, and that perhaps was the fault of the director Sheng Ding. Both the director and choreographer should have gelled better to make the fight scenes look more flawless.Leehom I thought delivered really well. The character suited him and he pulled it off impressively yet again. But for the other characters, especially new actress Lin Peng's, they were too one dimensional to have any depth. But the great thing about this was there's no unnecessary subplots to weigh down the story. There's no distraction. It's all very straightforward.So with Chan taking himself out of the spotlight from the fight scenes and going for a more low key and subtle performance, it worked very much to his favour. One sure thing was that there's no way he could disappoint his audience anymore, even the slapsticks were cut down a lot. But when there were, they really brought out the laughter.