In its lesser moments, the film plays like a bad pastiche of a Roger Moore-era Bond movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Fast-moving and crammed with fight scenes, Vanguard is a disposable action flick that will satisfy the most loyal Jackie Chan devotees. However, those looking for the actor at his best may want to visit some earlier hits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2022

Coupled with cheesy dialogues and mostly unfunny comedy moments, Vanguard continues to be a downfall for Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong's collaboration.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2021

Put as delicately as possible, [Vanguard is] an absolute affront to action cinema.

| Jun 5, 2021

In most respects, Vanguard feels like a throwback to the type of overstuffed action flick that made its presence particularly known from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2021

"Vanguard", as was always the case with HK action movies, does not stand up to logic. However, both Stanley Tong and Jackie Chan seem to acknowledge, cherish and thrive on this fact, a concept that is quite obvious in the whole duration of the film

| Feb 21, 2021

Although an outtake shown in the closing credits proves Chan is still willing to take risks, the film's use of CGI largely denies us the physical realism that was a hallmark of his movies in the old days.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2021

Supercop? Super-bland.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 11, 2021

It's an unforgivable waste of Jackie Chan, action-movie legend, reduced here to pratfalls and gurning double takes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2021

It's all atrocious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 8, 2021

Veteran Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong reunites with his longtime star Jackie Chan for this amiable but rather under-par adventure with silly CGI effects.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2021

Vanguard is a horrifyingly fake action blockbuster that is monotonous, labourious and bereft of any charm and wit expected from the talents of Jackie Chan and Stanley Tong.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 12, 2020

'Vanguard' features Jackie Chan ... and not much else.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 10, 2020

Director/writer Stanley Tong and topliner Jackie Chan have made something that feels like one of those big, splashy international derring-do actioners from the '70s and '80s.

| Original Score: B | Dec 8, 2020

For audiences perfectly happy to ignore a basic plot in exchange for some spectacular action.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 2, 2020

Don't come in expecting vintage Chan action, and you'll get your money's worth.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Jackie Chan is still agile but this movie just limps along from comedy to drama, never knowing which side to choose.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 27, 2020

Towards the end of the film there's a wild ride through a Dubai shopping mall, but I'd venture a guess that most viewers will never make it that far through this stinker.

| Original Score: 1.5 / 5 | Nov 26, 2020

There's no reason why a movie that features Jackie Chan, lion attacks, and machete-wielding henchmen on Jet Skis should be as boring as Vanguard.

| Original Score: D | Nov 26, 2020

Chan's globetrotting action movie features a few brief, impressive car chases and other light moments, but it's largely weighed down by poor writing, bland villains, and a nonsensical plot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2020