Global Pursuit

Streamer Kai Cenat and a fan he met on the street try to recreate a bootleg version of rush hour in Global Pursuit. It is exactly what you would expect. Everything from the acting of either lead, to the script, to the fighting scenes is absolutely atrocious. It's supposed to be a comedy but there are no jokes. Everything about this screams high school project, which makes sense since it was apparently shot in 3 days. I suppose you could tolerate this if you are a big Kai Cenat fan, and pretend it watchable just to support your favorite streamer. Outside of this, I would stay far away from this. 2/10 just because the cinematography is okay.

I'm no Ebert, but I've got a decent grasp of what makes a film work, and I have to say, Global Pursuit makes me want to pursue other activities.

The film tries to emulate the iconic 'Rush Hour' series but ends up delivering less chemistry than a high school dropout in a science lab. Kai Cenat, popular as an internet personality, takes on a role as one of the buddy cops. While he shines online, his acting chops don't quite cut it here. It's like putting ketchup on a chocolate cake - you know both elements are good on their own, but something's just not mixing.

The plot tries to take you on a wild ride but feels more like a slow crawl in peak hour traffic. Instead of making me grip my seat in anticipation, it had me gripping my head in confusion. You know your sting operation's got issues when the audience starts rooting for the bad guys just so the movie can end sooner.

And let's talk about the jokes in this film. You know how they say a joke is like a frog, and if you dissect it, it dies? Well, the jokes in Global Pursuit were already DOA, so I guess the script dissected itself.

To wrap this up, Global Pursuit felt like a half-hour chase scene where everyone was running in circles. While I love a good buddy cop film, this one just didn't arrest my attention.

Honestly, for Two Non Actors as main characters and one who barley speaks English this wasn't bad especially knowing it was filmed in three days. Was better than some of the junk Netflix and Hulu has been dropping recently. Also keep in mind once again ray barley knows english and he played his role perfectly. Also the combat scenes weren't that bad the comedy written needs some work and the weird pauses in some moments mad it weird and the audio in some scenes was kinda off putting to the ear but yet again it was all done in theee days with people with zero experience so i give it a eight out of ten. Hopefully Kai can drop some more bangers this year and maybe a little longer.

From going to japan and meeting ray, to flying him out and making a short film with him with only 3 days to shoot. Kai and everyone did a good job in my opinion for there first time. As a fan of rush hour, kai and ray achieved to give me that same feeling and vibe of it. With kai's loud, hyper, funny humor and personality, ties in well to the film and lowkey mirrors Chris tuckers performance in rush hour. With rays broken English and Asian heritage, reflects well with Jackie Chans performance as well. Sure the script is a little forced and falls short in some ways, i was laughing through out the whole video. Kai said he wanted to take acting serious, i think this is a great first step in that direction. Well done to everyone who worked on the film.

Global Pursuit is not meant to be the perfect movie. It doesn't aim for a 10/10 rating. It's just a fun movie that hopes to get a laugh out of you. The acting is alright. It's not terrible but it's not perfect. The best actor was literally Kai Cenat in my opinion. He played his role very well and you can see that he truly aimed to act like how Chris Tucker did in Rush Hour and it shows. Ray did pretty well for his first time acting, and was better than most of the actors. Everyone else was alright and not amazing. The action scenes were probably the worst part of the movie. But it was still interesting to watch. (The cameo was also hilarious) Overall, Global Pursuit is a great spin-off of the original "Rush Hour". I am truly proud of what Kai, Ray, and the production team managed to pull off in this short amount of time. Bravo.