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{{short description|2002 American action-comedy film by Kevin Donovan}}
{{Infobox film
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* [[DreamWorks Pictures]]
* [[Walter F. Parkes|Parkes]]/[[Laurie MacDonald|MacDonald Productions]]
* [[Vanguard Animation|Vanguard Films]]
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| distributor = DreamWorks Pictures
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| runtime = 98 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English<ref name="bbfc">{{cite web |title=THE TUXEDO {{!}} British Board of Film Classification |url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/tuxedo-2002 |website=bbfc.co.uk |access-date=2019-08-16 |archive-date=2019-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816131348/https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/tuxedo-2002 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| budget = $60 million<ref name="mojo">{{cite web |url= http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tuxedo.htm |title= The Tuxedo |work= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date= October 11, 2017 |archive-date= July 10, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190710051923/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tuxedo.htm |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name="numbers" />
| gross = $104.4 million<ref name="mojo" /><ref name="numbers">{{cite web |title= The Tuxedo (2002) - Financial Information |url= https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Tuxedo-The#tab=summary |website= [[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]] |access-date= 2019-08-17 |archive-date= 2023-05-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230528014608/https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Tuxedo-The#tab=summary |url-status= live }}</ref>
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'''''The Tuxedo''''' is a 2002 American [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[action comedy film]] directed by Kevin Donovan and starring [[Jackie Chan]] and [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]]. It is a spy [[parody]] that involves a special [[tuxedo]] that grants its wearer specialsuperhuman abilities. It also involves a corporate terrorist, threatening to poison the United States' fresh water supply with bacteria that spills [[electrolyte]]s into the blood and totally [[Dehydration|dehydrates]] the host.<ref name="Hart" />
 
The film received negative reviews from [[critics]] upon release and earned a total worldwide box office gross of $104.4 million.<ref name="mojo" />
 
== Plot ==
James "Jimmy" Tong is a taxi driver notorious for his speed and ability to get his customers anywhere in the least amount of time, with no accidents whatsoever. His reputation lands him a job as the personal [[chauffeur]] of the mysterious but wealthy Clark Devlin. Jimmy does not really know what his new boss' job is, but Devlin's friendly nature, imperturbable demeanor, and willingness to offer Jimmy advice wins Jimmy over and the two become friends. What Jimmy does not realize is that Devlin is a secret [[Espionage|spy]] and undercover government agent, andfor an agency called the CSA. whenWhen an attempt to kill Devlin with a car bombing sends him into a coma, Jimmy ends up with Devlin's recent case notes and a special watch that controls Devlin's rather unusual tuxedo.
 
The tuxedo is a [[E-textiles|gadget capable of granting its wearer special abilities]] (including [[martial arts]], [[speed]], the ability to dance, sing, cling to walls, and various [[acrobatics]]) which Jimmy must use to stop the criminal organization responsible for Devlin's attempted murder. The group is a terrorist organization disguised as a corporation named Banning Corporation and is headed by the notorious and ruthless Dietrich Banning. Its goal is to take over the global drinking water supply, starting with the poisoning of major US reservoirs by means of genetically modified [[gerridae|water strider]] insects. These water striders have bacteria that can spread from person to person, causing severe dehydration. By pure chance, Jimmy is joined by a genius scientist with aspirations of field work, Delilah "Del" Blaine. Blaine is completely new to field work and is delighted to be on assignment with Devlin, only to be very confused by Jimmy as he impersonates Devlin, relying on the tuxedo's special abilities to compensate for his lack of skill and training.
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At first, Blaine thinks Jimmy is weird and annoying, and then a fraud when Jimmy's impersonation is finally exposed. She confiscates his borrowed tuxedo and attempts to stop the evil Dietrich Banning on her own by feigning a desire to become a turncoat for Banning Corporation. Meanwhile, Jimmy is ready to give up and go back to his life as a taxi driver, but while packing his belongings he discovers that Devlin had ordered a [[Suit|second suit]] for Jimmy himself, believing that Jimmy could also be a great agent. Using his new suit, Jimmy defeats the [[villain]], Banning, by putting a cigarette in Blaine's mouth. Banning's tuxedo automatically forces him to pull out a lighter and light her cigarette. While Blaine is (comically) puffing on the lit cigarette, Jimmy begins to punch Banning. During the fight, Jimmy throws a glass containing the queen of the water striders into Banning's mouth. He is then infected with bacteria from the water strider. The other remaining water striders attack Banning and he then dies instantaneously from [[terminal dehydration]].
 
As compensation for his role in bringing down Banning, the organization uses its resources to orchestrate an operation so that Jimmy can finally meet his dream girl. However, confused by Blaine's and the now-recovered Devlin's conflicting instructions on how to act Jimmy succeeds only in alarming the girl into threatening to mace him, resulting in the operation being aborted. CounselingConsoling Jimmy afterwards, Blaine admits feeling sad that no one had ever tried to do for her what Jimmy had just done, and Jimmy tells Blaine that she has to change her shrewish personality and be more accommodating if she ever wants to have a boyfriend. Feeling a tentative attraction for each other, they walk away to buy coffee together.
 
== Cast ==
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* [[Bob Balaban]] as CSA Director Winton Chalmers (''uncredited'')
* [[Christian Potenza]] as CSA Agent Joel
* [[Scott Wickware]] as CSA Agent Wallace
* Karen Glave as CSA Agent Randa
* [[Scott Yaphe]] as CSA Agent Gabe
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== Production ==
Jackie Chan was unsure about the project adding special effects together with stunts, but was interested to work with DreamWorks for the chance to meet [[Steven Spielberg]].<ref name="Hart">{{cite news|title= His Career Is No Stunt|work= [[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 8, 2002|url= httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/2002archives/la-xpm-2002-sep/-08/entertainment/-ca-hart8-story.html|access-date=2010-10-23|first=Hugh|last=Hart|archive-date=2010-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805031435/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/sep/08/entertainment/ca-hart8|url-status=live}}</ref> Chan found the American approach to stunts and safety restrictive and wanted to repeat a jump but was not allowed. "American films are different -- it drives me crazy," said Chan.<ref>{{cite web |date=24 September 2002 |last=Curiel |first=Jonathan |title=Man of action / Jackie Chan suits up for 'Tuxedo,' finds Hollywood reluctant to let him do the stunts |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Man-of-action-Jackie-Chan-suits-up-for-2793061.php |website=SFGate |access-date=20 July 2020 |archive-date=20 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720232326/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Man-of-action-Jackie-Chan-suits-up-for-2793061.php |url-status=live }}</ref> On her first day of stunts, Jennifer Love Hewitt suffered a broken finger after being struck by one of the stunt men.<ref name="tvguide">{{cite web |date=October 1, 2002 |author=Daniel R. Coleridge |title=Jennifer Love Hewitt: That Elusive Devil! |url=http://www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/insider/021001c.asp |website=TV Guide Online |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021001223341/http://www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/insider/021001c.asp |archive-date=2002-10-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
[[Principal photography]] began in September 2001 and ended in January 2002. During filming in [[Toronto]], Chan and Love Hewitt appeared on an on-set webcam and interacted with fans.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt visit the Bagel Cam|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwT-I9tqco |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/_bwT-I9tqco| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|via= [[YouTube]] |access-date=16 April 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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After an initial score by [[Christophe Beck]], [[John Debney]] was brought in to rescore the film (incorporating Beck's thematic material). Both composers ultimately had cues included in the final version.
 
[[Varèse Sarabande]] released a soundtrack album on October 1, 2002, including different cues written by the composers for the same scenes. Cues by Debney are in italics, cues by Beck in bold.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tuxedo|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-tuxedo-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000662247|access-date=2019-08-28|archive-date=2019-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501084117/https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-tuxedo-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000662247|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
# ''Jimmy's Tux (2:50)''
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== Reception ==
=== Box office ===
On a reported budget of $60 million, the film grossed $50.5 million in the United States. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $15 million from 3,022 theaters, ranking in second place behind ''[[Sweet Home Alabama (film)|Sweet Home Alabama]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Linder|first=Brian|title=Weekend Box Office: Home Sweet Home|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/10/01/weekend-box-office-home-sweet-home|publisher=IGN|access-date=May 20, 2023|date=October 1, 2002|archive-date=May 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520212741/https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/10/01/weekend-box-office-home-sweet-home|url-status=live}}</ref> The film's total worldwide gross is $104.4 million.<ref name="mojo" /><ref name="numbers" />
 
=== Critical response ===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 21% based on 140137 reviews and an average rating of 4.33/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Chan is as charming as ever, but his talents are squandered by special effects and bad writing."<ref>{{cite web |title= The Tuxedo (2002) |url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tuxedo |work= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= 2024-04-01 |archive-date= 2024-03-19 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240319013312/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tuxedo |url-status= live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 30 out of 100 based on reviews from 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-tuxedo |title= The Tuxedo Reviews |work= [[Metacritic]] |access-date= 2024-04-01 |archive-date= 2018-01-08 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108054920/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-tuxedo |url-status= live }}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= Cinemascore |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 }}</ref>
 
[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' commented that "The movie is silly beyond comprehension, and even if it weren't silly, it would still be beyond comprehension" but does comment that the film has its good moments. He gave the film one and a half stars out of four.<ref>{{cite web |date= September 27, 2002 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=The Tuxedo Movie Review & Film Summary (2002) | url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-tuxedo-2002 |website=www.rogerebert.com |access-date=August 16, 2019 |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313000457/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20020927%2FREVIEWS%2F209270305%2F1023 |url-status=live }}</ref> Robert Koehler of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety magazine]]'' says that the film's central problem is the mix of Chan's actual stunts and effects, which plays against Chan's whole career and hard-core commitment to doing all of his own body-defying stunts. He notes that Hewitt "has displayed a Chan-like sweetness herself in past roles" and is disappointed that her character is "a haggling, high-strung shrew who’swho's instantly repellent" rather than an amusing sidekick as Chan has had in other Hollywood films. Koehler also criticizes the "pallid direction", and "virtually incomprehensible plot line".<ref>{{cite web |date= 26 September 2002 |author= Robert Koehler |title= The Tuxedo |url= https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/the-tuxedo-1200545889/ |website= Variety |access-date= 14 September 2019 |archive-date= 6 November 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191106105937/https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/the-tuxedo-1200545889/ |url-status= live }}</ref> American film critic [[Wheeler Winston Dixon]] described the trademark action comedy as having an "unlikely pairing" of Jennifer Love Hewitt with Chan, and noted that Chan's doing his own stunts, even in his middle age, added a "welcome touch of verisimilitude to the endless succession of doubles who normally populate such films."<ref name="twsWWDixon">[[Wheeler Winston Dixon]], 2003, Wallflower Press, London and New York, ''Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema'', retrieved November 28, 2014, {{ISBN|1-903364-74-4}} (paperback) {{ISBN|1-903364-38-8}} (hardcover), see page 18, lines 15–20</ref>
 
Writing in the ''[[Asian Journal of Communication]]'' in 2013, academic Zheng Zhu listed the film alongside ''[[Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story]]'' (1993) and ''[[Kiss of the Dragon]]'' (2001) as films that broke from the Western tradition of portraying Asian men as asexual, stating that while they are often featured as heroes in martial arts films, they are rarely portrayed as romantic or loving. Noting the films each show an Asian martial artist with a white female partner, Zhu states they reverse the conventional portrayal of a "dominant white knight and a submissive Oriental lady". However, he makes critiques of the portrayal of these relationships. For example, each film shows "white women play[ing] the most important role" in helping Chinese men accomplish success. Asian men, Zhu argues, are portrayed as incapable of achieving success in Western society unless they are supported by white femininity.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zhu |first1=Zheng |date=2013 |title=Romancing 'kung fu master' – from 'yellow peril' to 'yellow prowess' |journal=[[Asian Journal of Communication]] |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=403–419|doi=10.1080/01292986.2012.756044 |s2cid=144868286 }}</ref>
 
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==External links==
* [http://www.dreamworks.com/dvd_features_tux.html Dreamworks SKG page]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225323/http://www.moviehole.net/news/20020924_360.html Jackie Chan interview for ''The Tuxedo'']
* {{mojo title|id=tuxedo|title=The Tuxedo}}
* {{IMDb title|id=0290095|title=The Tuxedo}}
 
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