Best & Worst: Jackie Chan
Sifting the hits from the chops...
By Mark PowellJul 30th 2010Best: Rumble In The Bronx
Year: 1995
Plot: Finally, the big crossover hit that Chan had been trying to chip away at America with for years. Rumble In The Bronx pitted Chan's holidaying Hong Kong law enforcer against a clique of petty street hoods.
While he ultimately cleans up the neighbourhood and shows the thugs the error of their ways, Chan's actions lead him into confrontation with some much bigger (and, of course, much bitier) fish...
Trivia: Chan managed to smash up his leg pretty comprehensively while filming this, but the shooting schedule didn't exactly leave a whole lot of time for recuperation.
Not to be deterred, our plucky nutjob simply had his wardrobe people paint a sock to match the shoe on his good leg, then went on and filmed a bunch of fight scenes with his plaster cast thusly disguised.
Check out the Total Film page on Chan's latest, The Karate Kid (2010), over here.
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Serrano
Jul 30th 2010, 16:24
Fantasy Mission Force is easily my favourite Jackie Chan film. I am not kidding.
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Hadouken76
Aug 1st 2010, 10:03
Armour of God 1 & 2, Snake in the Eagles shadow. Classic Chan.
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hago1
Aug 1st 2010, 10:47
No mention of Shanghai Noon/Shanghai Knights?
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Carl1984
Aug 1st 2010, 23:13
I am a self proclaimed massive fan of Jackie's I have every one of his films (some more then once), I also have his Hong Kong albums, books, magazines, posters ect anyway about this list I agree with some of the worst ones for instance Police Woman (A.K.A Rumble In Hong Kong) and Fantasy Mission Force deserve to be in the wost list completely also sorry to say so does The Tuxedo and The Medallion if them two had a better story they wouldn't be there. The other three Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu, Master With Cracked Fingers and Battle Creek Brawl (A.K.A The Big Brawl) don't deserve to be there. You've missed a few off the best list i.e New Police Story, The Myth, Rob-B-Hood and Shinjuku Incident. As for Drunken Master 2 it does deserve to be in the best list but the only thing that annoys me is it has never been released in the UK and I've never found a reason why.
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