Best & Worst: Jackie Chan
Sifting the hits from the chops...
By Mark PowellJul 30th 2010Worst: The Tuxedo
Year: 2002
Plot: Lame-ass Bond-spoofing DreamWorks romp, based around a hyper-engineered tuxedo that grants its wearer exaggerated physical powers.
Chan looks needlessly degraded as a chauffeur to a wealthy bloke with dodgy connections, eventually coming into possession of said tuxedo and stumbling on to a yawnsomely vague plot about a terrorist threat to the US water supply.
Trivia: Um...Jennifer Love-Hewitt's character had to suffer an attempted drowning during one scene, which happens to be one of the actress's real-life worst fears.
Far from curing her of her phobia, filming the scene just made it worse. "I hyperventilated and had a heart attack and I had to tell the entire crew what was wrong with me," she told one interviewer - presumably exaggerating just a tiny bit?
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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