As an action movie actor, Chow Yun-Fat needs little to prove himself. His awesome skill at a myriad of stunts and his deft knowledge of martial arts prove he’s worthy of the action movie genre.

In his latest movie, "Bulletproof Monk," Fat proves that perhaps both roles fill his credibility as a potent actor.

On the other hand, slacker comic Seann William Scott is still struggling to emerge from his monotonous role as a carefree, party-crazed kid.

In the film, Scott plays Kar, a street-wise, egocentric pickpocket who sidelines as a projectionist in the rundown Kung Fu movie theater. In his spare time Kar mimics the actors on the screen.

While trying to save a little girl from getting hit by a train, Kar meets Monk (Fat), and immediately shrugs him off. Later Kar is harassed by an overly cinematic street gang and is saved by the mob’s sweetheart, the ravishing "bad girl" (Jamie King). Leaving the fight unscathed, Kar once again runs into Fat, and the incessant run-ins these two ensue escalate.

It isn’t long before Kar loses the only person in his life close to him, the owner of the movie house, who is gunned down by a vengeful group hoping to bring an end to Monk

Monk has his own intriguing story. He is the keeper of a scroll with unlimited power. Sixty years prior, the Nazis came to Monk’s monastery and assassinated his master. In an effort to find the next keeper of the scroll so that he can retire, Monk comes to the unnamed city and finds Kar as a wealth of potential.

After Kar’s numerous efforts to shake Monk off, Kar teams up with him to keep the scroll away from the aging Nazi.

The Nazi Strucker (Karl Roden) has hired his daughter Nina (Victoria Smurfit) to help obtain the scroll.

Soon after the moviegoer learns that "bad girl" is in fact Jade, the daughter of a Russian mobster, and Kar naturally falls for her and the courtship ensues, eventually leading to a cute fight scene that in the end results in romance.

The movie is replete with helicopter chases, "Matrix"-and-"Crouching Tiger"-like gravity defying action scenes and oodles of martial arts. A helicopter and subway scene almost seem too much like "Matrix" rip-offs, and the plot overall is rather far-fetched and preposterous. All in all, there is very little real about this movie.