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Stars: Jackie Chan, Ti Lung, Anita Mui, Liu Chia Liang

Director: Liu Chia Liang / Jackie Chan

1994, Hong Kong, Golden Way/Golden Harvest

 

When returning home after a trip, Wong Fei Hung (Jackie) takes the wrong luggage with him in the train and it later shows that it contains a Chinese treasure. The owner (Liu Chia Liang) who also is a Chinese hero finds Wong and tells him that some corrupt Chinese and rich British where illegally exporting Chinese treasures. The delinquents kill the hero and Wong attacks the cover iron factory where the illegal exporting takes place.

 

A nice movie, but It disappointed me a little as everybody claims it's incredibly good. And it might just be me but I thought the wires where obviously over used at the end. Still you get some nice moves from the stars.

And this is one of the few later Jackie movies that has traditional kung fu and not stunts as the main thing, and only that makes it a must see. I just hope Jackie does some more traditional kung fu movies and it would be great to see him with Jet Li or reuniting with Samo Hung and Yuen Biao.

 

Jackie is nice but not much compared to the classic "Drunken Master" from 1978, but I guess it's irrelevant to say that cause this movie was completed months before his fortieth birthday which proves he's still in shape. There's a scene that I find very silly, the one where Jackie hasn’t got any more wine and he starts drinking factory alcohol which is used to burn metal, he seems to get invincible after drinking for a while. And then at the end he seems to have got a brain damage from the drinking. Not Jackie’s best acting effort (seems lost), but still one of his best movies in later years. If not the best.

It's nice to see Liu Chia Liang still acting. The fight between him and Ti Lung was pretty nice, and it’s always nice to see the veterans fight. Liu actually left the set during the film and Jackie had to take over directing.

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