Directed By: Stanley Tong
Written By: Edward Tang and Fibe Ma
Cinematography: Jingle Ma
Editor: Peter Cheung
Cast: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Francoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Morgan Lam, Alien Sit
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial arts skills.
Only this time he had more momentum as Quentin Tarantino had hyped him up and his films after a lifetime achievement award at the MTV awards when they were at the height of cool. Showing clips of all his films and detailing his injuries from doing all his acrobatic stunts.
Had a younger generation mesmerized and salivating over his work. Having him be a well-known foreign secret this was the first released film after.
The trailer showcased more action scenes than the stunts and didn’t include any of the more comedic elements.
The film is pretty run-of-the-mill only here. Most of his enemies are Caucasian. The film does show him struggling with the English dialogue so still eternally a nice guy and helping out a kid and his older sister, who had first set him up, and provides the film with some eye candy, but not a romantic one.
This has what is typical in his film's build-up of him being impressive and early scenes, yet being defeated, then the finale and over-the-top action fighting extravaganza, where he is like Hulk Hogan in his prime beaten now feels no pain in his nonstop as now he is truly angry and fed up
The film feels more like something from the 1980s and Chan is a little too old to be quite believable as the character and his circumstances.
Luckily, this is less comedic and family-friendly than his films would eventually become in America, so this film does retain some edge.
Though the pharmacy supposed to take place in the Bronx is obviously filmed in Canada and is not as exciting as the title.
Grade: C+
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