The Rookies

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The Rookies

2021

1h 53m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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An extreme sports athlete joins a mysterious special agent and her ragtag team of recruits to battle a group of deadly terrorists.

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Matthew Monagle

Austin Chronicle

04/16/2021

1/5

If filmmakers use posters as a way of nodding to their influences, then the bar for The Rookies seems to be set especially low.

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Richard Kuipers

Variety

04/15/2021

Lame humor and incoherent plotting are among the shortcomings of "The Rookies," an initially engaging but increasingly tedious Chinese action-comedy-thriller that not even kick-ass movie queen Milla Jovovich can breathe much life into.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

06/09/2021

Utterly forgettable and messy on every level, The Rookies is one of those movies that makes viewers wonder why the filmmakers thought it would be a good idea to get this embarrassing dud made.

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Kevin Carr

Fat Guys at the Movies

04/21/2021

3/4

There's such passion behind this terrible script that you want to love it.

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John Serba

Decider

04/19/2021

If exaggeration was a terminal illness, The Rookies would be dead 100 times over.

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Peter Sobczynski

eFilmCritic.com

04/16/2021

Tonally, the film is all over the map as it veers between badly executed action thrills and staggeringly unfunny comedic asides.

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crisly T

@Amjed Feb 17

This movie looks you straight in the face. "I am going to take everything that a movie is and turn it to 11" and then turns it to 12, funny, bewildering, disorientating, beautiful. If I could give 6 stars I would.

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Sherri S

@RT31450311 07/13/2025

This movie is absolutely awful. Within the first five minutes, I completely lost interest because of the awful voiceovers and cartoonish characters. Nope, nope, nope! 👎🏻

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Char L

@RT83227711 10/03/2024

Saw international stars featured and expected it to be good but the script and editing was confusing and made all of them look bad. Felt like a waste of my time watching this. Don’t waste yours.

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02/24/2022

Funny movie and I really liked it. Cheesy and fresh. Action abounds. Even som romance thrown in

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07/11/2021

Extrem schlechter China-Schrott, dessen Humor keiner lustig findet und dessen special Effects aussehen wie in Hollywood vor 10 Jahren. Reine Geldverschwendung. Extremely bad China junk, whose humor nobody finds funny and whose special effects look like in Hollywood 10 years ago. A waste of money.

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05/02/2021

The Rookies is a Chinese film that parodies spy action movies. Milla Jovovich kicks ass in the film, but she has a supporting role. The movie is so goofy, and the dubbed English is not great as usual, but it had some really funny scenes that had me laughing hard. The action is top-notch, and I actually wouldn't mind seeing it again.

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Synopsis

An extreme sports athlete joins a mysterious special agent and her ragtag team of recruits to battle a group of deadly terrorists.

Director: Alan Yuen
Producer: Rosanna Ng, Shan Tam
Screenwriter: Alan Yuen
Distributor: Shout! Studios
Production Co: New Classics Media, Gravity Pictures International, Wanda Media Co., New Classics International Media, Youku Pictures, Pristine Movies, Emperor Motion Pictures (International), Shanghai Taopiaopiao Film Culture, Huaxia Film Distribution Company, Wanda Pictures, Acme Image, Gravity Pictures
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 16, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 14, 2021
Runtime: 1h 53m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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