After Jackie Chan’s recent and high-profile visit to India, the film it wasall in aid of —Kung Fu Yoga— has alsomade it to our shores.UnlikexXx: return of Xander Cage, which released here a full week before it did in the rest of the world, as a nod to its leading lady, Deepika Padukone, Kung Fu Yogahasn’t given Indian theatregoers the red carpet treatment.Still from ’Kung Fu Yoga’Having already released in China last weekend, the action-comedy caper opens in Indian cinemas on Friday, 3 February.Early reviews for the film have been mixed.Kung Fu Yogais said to be an upgrade of Jackie Chan’s 2005 filmThe Myth( which had an appearance byMallika Sherawat) . In this film, Chan and hisMythdirector Stanley Tong reunite, and rope Disha Patani, Amyra Dastur and Sonu Sood into the proceedings.Chan plays a Tang Dynasty envoy to India, who helps defend the kingdom of Magadha against a renegade general. But when he’s making his way back to China, he’s cut off from his Indian envoy by an avalanche.Cut to the present, and Chan plays an archaeologist named — wait for it, JackChan — who has been approached by an Indian history professor Ashmita ( Disha Patani) to help recover a magical gemstone that was lost when the Indian envoy was buried under the avalanche.If the plot sounds remarkably similar toThe Myth, that’s because it is. InThe Mythas well, Chan played an archaeologist looking for a lost gem in India, on the quest for which he has flashbacks to his life as a Qin Dynasty general.However, sinceThe Mythsank without a trace at the box office, it’s highly likely that viewers will find enough that is new inKung Fu Yogato keep them interested.Here’s what reviewers had to say aboutChan’s latest: As the leading man, Chan keeps the ball rolling with an assortment of neat acrobatic tricks and martial arts sparring, but his days of life-risking physical exertion is over, writes Maggie Lee inVariety. The three gorgeous Indian actors, none of them big names, give feisty turns in skimpily written roles; the members of the Chinese cast, other than casually charismatic Aarif Lee Rahman, are forgettable. Tech credits by the Hong Kong crew are pro across the board. Stunt and action choreography by Tong, Chan, and Wu Gang involve predatory animals and cobras in scenes that are sometimes thrilling, other times moronic.Meanwhile, calling Kung Fu Yoga even sillier than its title, theAV Club’s Ignatiy Vishnvetsky says, Kung Fu Yogais an exercise in quantity over quality: an attempted return to the star’s Hong Kong action-slapstick roots, randomly assembled from pieces ofRaiders Of The Lost Ark, PinkPanther-era caper comedies, and the little-loved mid-2000s Chan vehicleTheMyth( for which it serves as a bizarre quasi-remake) , with a Lord Of The Rings fantasy battle sequence, aFast And Furious-type luxury car chase, a Bollywood dance number, and not one, not two, but four different scenes involving CGI animals thrown in for the hell of it. The non-stop cycling of locations, crowd-pleaser modes, and groan-inducing gags makes for some watchable silliness.