Jackie Chan - Anyone Still Watching?

I love Jackie Chan and I see he seems to be sorely under-represented here.

Is anyone a fan? Any stories or memories you wish to share? Any favorite film moments you want to reminisce on?

Supercop (aka Police Story III) and Drunken Master II are out of this world!

 

I have probably a dozen Jackie Chan movies, and haven't watched any in several years. I totally need to. The most recent one I saw was actually a serious action drama called The Foreigner from 2017.

 

I have a huge respect for the guy, doing his own stunts while breaking every bone in his body...dedicated man!
His movies are a great fun and I even remember when they filmed Armour of God. I was a kid and it happened in Predjama castle.
It needs a rewatch!

 

love him but I have to admit he had a few stinkers...nothing fab lately...hey, he's getting old!

 

The Foreigner was really good even though it was quite different in tone from his usual fare.

 

Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, if he wants to keep working, he has to find something to do other than action.

 

He's probably the planet's #1 movie star of the past 40 years.

As to why we don't hear as much about him now, he is a senior citizen, so presumably it's harder to film action films.

What's nice about Chan's lower-budget films (i.e., most of them) is that they're usually quite enjoyable even if they're objectively kind of weak. Jackie is so charming and is always fun to watch. I mean, a movie like The Tuxedo is artistically terrible, but it's still more fun to watch than most high-budget, even critically acclaimed, films.

My only reservation about Chan is how he made a clear decision at some point -- maybe in the mid-90s or something, when he was becoming institutionally iconic across the Chinese world -- that he was going to be a mouth-piece and uncritical supporter of the PRC. This alone wouldn't be unique among Chinese stars, of course (hard to say anything negative about your government if the result is the end of your career, overnight), but what kind of leaves a smell for me is Chan's tendency to say really nasty things about Taiwan or other territories politically cut off from the mainland. It's pretty classless.

Anyway, fantastic star, incredible life and career.

 

I listen to his albums all the time, or at least every once in a while. I just put on 我還是成龍 last week. I can't remember the last time I saw one of his movies.

 

Here are all of Jackie's films. The ones I've seen are in blue with brief comments.

Maybe some of you will get inspired to try out the ones I marked as really liking.


Five Against a Bullet (announced)

Once Upon a Zodiac (pre-production)

2022 Ride On (filming)

2022 Snafu (post-production)

2021 All U Need Is Love

2020/I Vanguard

2019 The Climbers

2019 Iron Mask

2019 The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang

2017 Namiya

2017 Bleeding Steel - pretty good, late era action stuff for him


2017 The Foreigner - trying out a bit more drama, Jackie acts better than Pierce in this one

2017 The Lego Ninjago Movie

2017 WildAid: Jackie Chan & Pangolins (Video short)

2017 The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

2017 Kung Fu Yoga

2016 Railroad Tigers - so so but lots of action

2016 The Master (Short)

2016 Skiptrace -meh

2016 Kung Fu Panda 3

2015 Monkey King: Hero Is Back

2015 Dragon Blade

2014 As the Light Goes Out

2013 Police Story: Lockdown - ok. overdramatic

2013 Personal Tailor


2012 Chinese Zodiac - a little touch of the old magic, nice

2011 1911

2011 Kung Fu Panda 2

2011 Shaolin

2010 Kung Fu Panda Holiday (TV Short)

2010 The Legend of Silk Boy

2010 The Karate Kid

2010 Little Big Soldier

2010 The Spy Next Door

2009 The Founding of a Republic

2009 Looking for Jackie

2009 Shinjuku Incident -early drama role for Jackie. interesting

2008 Kung Fu Panda

2008 The Forbidden Kingdom

2007 Rush Hour 3 - still goofy

2006 Rob-B-Hood

2005 The Myth

2004 New Police Story - Jackie is not the center of the film here but still not bad

2004 The Twins Effect II

2004 Around the World in 80 Days

2004 Enter the Phoenix

2003 The Medallion - decent film

2003 The Twins Effect

2003 Shanghai Knights - mediocre sequel


2002 The Tuxedo - mindless fun


2001 Rush Hour 2 - still goofy


2001 The Accidental Spy - I like this one for some reason


2000 Shanghai Noon - it all comes together well here. great film

1999 Gen-X Cops

1999 King of Comedy

1999 Gorgeous -Jackie does romance?


1998 Rush Hour – the only one of the series seemingly with legs


1998 Who Am I? – this one is a hidden gem

1997 An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

1997 Mr. Nice Guy – fantastic film that uses the environment well


1996 First Strike – outstanding film

1995 Thunderbolt

1995 Rumble in the Bronx – this was Jackie’s first real introduction to the US but it isn’t his best


1994 The Legend of Drunken Master – perhaps Jackie’s greatest film


1993 Supercop 2 –Michelle Yeoh is great, Jackie hardly in it


1993 Crime Story – pretty good, not loads of action


1993 City Hunter – Jackie does a Japanese film


1992 Supercop - perhaps Jackie’s second greatest film.


1992 Twin Dragons – another amazing film you’ve probably never seen

1991 A Kid from Tibet

1991 Operation Condor – top notch film here


1990 The Prisoner – kinda weird, not typical Jackie

1989 Miracles: The Canton Godfather

1988 Police Story 2

1988 Dragons Forever

1987 Project A 2 - kinda cheesy


1986 Armour of God -wow

1986 Naughty Boys

1985 Police Story - holy crap how does he live through these stunt scenes?

1985 Heart of Dragon

1985 Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars

1985 The Protector -absurd cop film but somewhat entertaining


1985 My Lucky Stars - not American humor at all


1984 Wheels on Meals - not American humor at all


1984 Cannonball Run II - hahahaha

1984 Pom Pom

1983 Project A -the end of old school cheesy Hong Kong cinema

1983 Winners & Sinners

1983 Fearless Hyena 2

1983 Fantasy Mission Force - avoid at all costs

1982 Dragon Lord

1981 The Cannonball Run -hilarious

1980 Battle Creek Brawl

1980 The Young Master -old school ok

1979 Dragon Fist

1979 The Fearless Hyena -old school ok

1978 Bruce and Shao-lin Kung Fu 2

1978 Spiritual Kung Fu

1978 Drunken Master -old school ok

1978 Half a Loaf of Kung Fu

1978 Magnificent Bodyguards

1978 Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin

1978 Snake in the Eagle's Shadow -old school ok

1977 To Kill with Intrigue

1976 The Killer Meteors

1976 The Hand of Death

1976 New Fist of Fury

1976 The Himalayan

1975 Pai an jing ji

1975 All in the Family

1974 The Golden Lotus

1974 E hu cun

1973 Supermen Against the Orient


1973 Enter the Dragon -Jackie gets whipped by a legend

1973 Fist to Fist

1973 Village on Fire

1973 Attack of the Kung Fu Girls

1973 Rumble in Hong Kong

1973 Facets of Love

1973 Chinese Hercules

1973 Snake Fist Fighter

1973 Fist of Unicorn

1973 Not Scared to Die

1973 Ambush

1972 Brutal Boxer

1972 Hapkido

1972 Fist of Fury

1971 A Touch of Zen

1971 The Angry River

1971 The Blade Spares None

1970 Huang jiang nu xia

1963 The Story of Ching Hsian-Lien

1962 Big and Little Wong Tin Bar

 

I was also wondering how long he could keep going. I was amazed at his stunt work in Bleeding Steel (2017). Worth checking out.

 

Big fan, but "Supercop" is still my favorite, mainly because Jackie and Michelle Yeoh are
simply amazing in it. In fact it really is a Jackie/Michelle co star film.
There are a ton of clips online from the film, but this outtake video sums up a lot of it.
And yes, Michelle Yeoh DID do that motorcycle onto the train stunt herself (amazing) but
as you can see in this clip, she wasn't always successful doing it. I don't know how she
wasn't killed, but she lived to talk about it....Amazing woman and today a great actress.

 

Absolutely. This film is a career highlight for both of them. One of my top favorites.

 

we did...: ) we check out any new Jackie...

 

Rewatching The Protector now. The absolutely absurd cop film. The second half is more grounded and serious though.

One thing is certain, this is Jackie at his most sinister. His most "tough guy" role ever. It's interesting how this tough guy Jackie was never revisited again. He became more of a "Mr. Nice Guy" to borrow the movie title.


The Protector is currently streaming on Pluto TV.

 

My faves are Rush Hour and The Spy Next Door (fun movie for kids as well).

 

his actions films were out of this world

 

The Foreigner is a very enjoyable movie, and Jackie Chan is making a fairly good transition into age limited action films.

 

Not a big fan of these types of movies, but always liked Jackie's stunts, and he seems like a very likeable guy.

 

The Foreigner was a good one.

 

Watching Dragons Forever (1988) with Jackie and Sammo Hung tonight.

All the elements were here marking Jackie as the future world star he was about to become.

Currently streaming on Paramount+


Sammo should have deserved the same. He did get the Martial Law TV show though which I enjoyed a lot.

 

Wow. Last fifteen minutes are primo Jackie.

Some good breaking glass stuff a la Police Story.

 

My main man, Jackie Chan - FOREVER!!!

 

Armour Of God is a great one, often overlooked. The Protector is good if a bit cheesy in places.

 

It was last week

Iron Mask---yikes upon yikes. A glorious trainwreck, couldn't tear my eyes away although they were begging me to. The definition of "misguided"