Driving by his deep will of saving the world from destruction, Monk, a young smart and courageous guardian, who guards an old scroll with the ultimate power, teaches a young guy to protect it from the corrupted Kung Fu master that seeks to steal it.
[T]he thing about the martial arts sequences -- you've got the great Chow Yun-Fat, but this thing is directed MTV style: cut here, cut there, close-up. So we can't really tell if he's doing stunts or if it's all tricks of camerawork.
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
August 07, 2008
The constantly beaming monk is as good-natured as the script is mindless.
David N. Butterworth
rec.arts.movies.reviews
September 07, 2015
Not to put too fine a point on it, but "Bulletproof Monk" is a rather large piece of garbage.
They made a ton of junky movies in Hong Kong, but those were dazzlingly fluid and high-flying junky movies. This American retread has the same sort of hack plot but none of the bravura.