The Spy Next Door
In an attempt to win the heart of Gillian, a single mother who has three children, and his new neighbor, Bob Ho, a former spy at the Chinese CIA, who is deeply in love with her, and wants to coach her fancy, offers to take care of her children during her visit to another town, the thing that changes his life and brings terrible and problems for him.
25 August 1961, Flatwoods, Kentucky, USA
10 August 1990, Fort Hood, Texas, USA
10 August 1981, Beaumont, Texas, USA
22 June 1972, Greenville, Texas, USA
18 March 1996, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 April 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 December 1970, Bluefield, West Virginia, USA
February 10, 2012
If the lazy filmmakers don't care enough about their movie to offer at least one single original idea, then you shouldn't care enough to go see it.
August 09, 2010
An uncomfortable journey for everyone involved.
January 15, 2010
Chan's comedic gifts and still-nimble moves are wasted in a string of unimaginative household calamities and practical jokes.
May 17, 2010
This is the broad, silly kiddie exercise it appears to be.
January 15, 2010
The script -- which took three people to write -- is barely coherent, and it's unclear whether Brian Levant was even on set when he directed. All that's left for us to enjoy are the action scenes, and frankly most of those are a little depressing.
January 15, 2010
At some point, the social mores that functionally banned most other forms of ethnic stereotyping will catch up with the Slavs, a sad day indeed for middling screenwriters.
January 15, 2010
Chan is actually a fairly likeable hero and his elocution, never great, is at least passable in this latest romp.
January 15, 2010
As for Mr. Chan, he has some passably choreographed bits with folding chairs, a bicycle and, later, some pots and pans at Gillian's house. But it's hardly enough to redeem -- or even make bearable -- this half-hearted hodgepodge.
October 22, 2010
This film plays it too safe and brings you only a smidgeon of charm and laughter.
May 14, 2010
Lame.
March 19, 2010
Even the outtakes barely raise a smile.
May 30, 2010
Though mixing espionage and family values in unraveling dysfunctional behavior among a bratty brood of siblings may be a stretch, Jackie Chan makes the most of it in his latest caper targeting unruly kids.
