Rush Hour 3

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker

Of the three Rush Hours produced, Rush Hour 3 is the fluffiest. It has all the elements you would come to expect after watching the first two in the series but Jackie Chan is showing his age. The fights are less spectacular and creative.

Chris Tucker is the X factor in this movie. With Tucker, love or hate him him depending on the situation, you’re always wondering what his next wisecracking delivery will be. Without Tucker, this would be a standard Chan vehicle.

Rating: 84 for the comedy of Tucker.

Rumble in the Bronx

Jackie Chan, Anita Mui

The third kung fu milestone in the US. The movie that allowed America to rediscover Jackie Chan. I can understand why it began America’s love affair with Jackie.  Anita Mui who was wonderful in Drunken Master 2 was lost in this movie, a shell of the potential she was able to display.

Rating: 82

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Ku Fu Hustle

Steven Chow

Chow plays a small time wannabe gangster who gets caught in the middle of a battle between a slum town and the Axe Gang.

This is one of my favorites of all time and probably the one that I repeatedly view, although not all parts. The first time I saw it, many of the scenes were hysterical and had me laughing out loud.  The funniest scene is Chow’s assassination attempt on the landlady.

The music is an important of the movie and this movie made me realize how integral and important music is to a movie.

The best fight scene is the revealing of the three kung fu masters. The most unique fight scene involves the musical instrument guqin.

It’s one movie that I would probably buy in Blu-Ray, if I had a Blu-Ray player…

Rating: 96

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

In my book, I consider this the fourth Kung Fu milestone in the US, renewing or elevating the interest in Kung Fu movies stateside.

While the kung fu wuxia may have been something new to US audiences, it was the overall package that had many critics raving.  After watching it several times, I feel the movie drags. Again I don’t need these tragic tales of forbidden love.

The fight in the restaurant reminded my of Come Drink with Me and was the best fight scene in the movie.

Rating: 83

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Operation Condor

Jackie Chan

Shortly after he made in into mainstream USA via Rumble In The Bronx, the local TV channel starting airing his movies every Friday night. Most of the movies were pretty forgettable however there was one that stood out.

Operation Condor for the most part was uninspired except for the wind tunnel fight scene.  For me and to this day, it remains Jackie Chan’s most memorable fight scene, because I had seen nothing like it before. It wasn’t so much the fighting itself but Jackie’s use of the wind to aid in fighting. It was played for laughs very effectively and to which I found myself laughing out loud.

Rating: 79 with the wind tunnel fight; 70 minus the wind tunnel fight.

 

Mad Monkey Kung Fu

1979

Starring Lau Kar Leung and Lo Lieh

Lau Kar Leung was noted as an action choreographer/director. This was his first starring role.

Lau Kar Leung is an opera performer and monkey style kung fu master who has too much to drink and scammed into believing he has slept with a pimp/brothel owner’s wife.  As punishment his sister is forced to marry the pimp and Lau submits to having his hands beaten to useless bloody pulp. He goes into hiding. A petty thief befriends Lau. The thief begs Lau to train him and Lau refuses until one day near death after being beaten by a gang working for the pimp, Lau takes on the thief as a student. Lau and the thief go on to exact revenge on the gang and the pimp.

Rating: 86

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