02-09-2022, 11:51 PM
I don't think I've seen this since it first came out. I remember it being kinda bad but with a great finale fight. My memory is good here.
This is another film with the three bros, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. It's got a great back up cast too - Eric Tseng, Richard Ng, Bolo Yeung, Lam Ching-Ying, Lau Kar Wing, Yuen Wah, Sibelle Hu, Michiko Nishikawa, and more although most are in small roles.
It begins with Jackie and Yuen Biao as two cops recklessly chasing two guys across Tokyo into an amusement park where they get attacked by ninjas. Jackie does Jackie stuff, including a crazy stunt hanging off the struts of a ferris wheel. Being Jackie, he just does it like it's nothing.
Yuen gets captured and Jackie asks to reassemble his orphanage-mates, who are all leading lives of crime in Hong Kong. The reassembly of them - the 'lucky stars' - is dumb Hong Kong humor. They get paired with Sibelle, a cop who's hair is perfect.
The film then spends an inordinate amount of time trying to molest her. That's played for laughs, even a scene where they all decide to rape her. That wasn't funny back then and it's even less funny now.
Then they go to Japan, and when Jackie reenters the film, the fights come back. There's a final fight back at the amusement park, including a very surreal extended scene where Jackie battles his way through a house of horrors filled with ninjas. That's quite good and I remember being impressed by it back when I first saw it. it's a long fight finale and eventually, everyone is included. Jackie, Sammo, and Yuen Biao all deliver. Also stand out is the cat fight between Sibelle and Michiko. Michiko was great. Now I'm wondering what became of her.
This is a total fast forward to the fight scenes flick. D00M recommended only for that. Skip the molestation bit, which takes up the first half hour after the opening fight, because it's not only dumb, it's outright offensive.
Seen on Criterion. A dear KF brother gifted me a year subscription as an early birthday present for which I'm extremely grateful. Maybe it's time to add a Criterion subforum because this library is stacked. I'll likely spend a lot of time here...
This is another film with the three bros, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. It's got a great back up cast too - Eric Tseng, Richard Ng, Bolo Yeung, Lam Ching-Ying, Lau Kar Wing, Yuen Wah, Sibelle Hu, Michiko Nishikawa, and more although most are in small roles.
It begins with Jackie and Yuen Biao as two cops recklessly chasing two guys across Tokyo into an amusement park where they get attacked by ninjas. Jackie does Jackie stuff, including a crazy stunt hanging off the struts of a ferris wheel. Being Jackie, he just does it like it's nothing.
Yuen gets captured and Jackie asks to reassemble his orphanage-mates, who are all leading lives of crime in Hong Kong. The reassembly of them - the 'lucky stars' - is dumb Hong Kong humor. They get paired with Sibelle, a cop who's hair is perfect.
The film then spends an inordinate amount of time trying to molest her. That's played for laughs, even a scene where they all decide to rape her. That wasn't funny back then and it's even less funny now.
Then they go to Japan, and when Jackie reenters the film, the fights come back. There's a final fight back at the amusement park, including a very surreal extended scene where Jackie battles his way through a house of horrors filled with ninjas. That's quite good and I remember being impressed by it back when I first saw it. it's a long fight finale and eventually, everyone is included. Jackie, Sammo, and Yuen Biao all deliver. Also stand out is the cat fight between Sibelle and Michiko. Michiko was great. Now I'm wondering what became of her.
This is a total fast forward to the fight scenes flick. D00M recommended only for that. Skip the molestation bit, which takes up the first half hour after the opening fight, because it's not only dumb, it's outright offensive.
Seen on Criterion. A dear KF brother gifted me a year subscription as an early birthday present for which I'm extremely grateful. Maybe it's time to add a Criterion subforum because this library is stacked. I'll likely spend a lot of time here...
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