The Spy Next Door

Still quite sprightly but looking a little old for romance, Hong Kong's comic martial artist Jackie Chan plays a Chinese secret serviceman seconded to the Albuquerque branch of the CIA to pursue the Russian mafia in New Mexico. Under the pseudonym of Bob Ho, he poses as a bespectacled businessman and falls in love with a local single mother. Unfortunately her three children despise his gentle ways until he starts kicking Ruskie butt, and during the frequent longueurs of this tedious family entertainment I fell to wondering if there's a Hollywood agency that specialises in training and hiring out peculiarly ghastly child actors. The film ends as Chan reveals at the altar that his name isn't Bob Ho. He leaves us to guess what it really is. Bing Cro, perhaps?