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Twin Dragons

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "I think I got the fighter!!!!"
Review: ...If your interested in a REAL Jackie Chan movie, with REAL stunts, REAL comedy, REAL action, and REAL Jackie, look no further than TWIN DRAGONS.
It may not be entiely convincing that the twins are really together inframe (the split screen effects are as corny as they get) and the story may not be entirely original...but TWIN DRAGONS is nevertheless, one of the best Jackie Chan movies ever...

Jackie plays Boomer, womanizing, karate choppin' mechanic living in Hong Kong, and the brother he never kenw he had, reknown condutor John Ma. Ma arrives in Hong Kong to give a concert and things go completely cattewumpus. Ma knows kung fu about as well as Boomer knows how to conduct a concert
Boomer:P>Before long, bad guys have kidnapped Boomer's smart-...buddy Tyson (Teddy Robin, who also produced)...with all that to worry about, there's even girl trouble, when Ma's lady Tammy (Nina Li Chi) winds up in the sack with Boomer, believing him to be Ma, and lovely lounge singer Barbara (lovely Maggie Cheung) falls for Ma believing him to be Boomer.

The summary of TWIN DRAGONS plot simply does not do it justice. From the moment Boomer gets in a fight with an entire night club full of mobsters, the movie has already hit take off velocity. Fans of the sexy Maggie Cheung...will find she doesn't have much to do, but looks fabulous not doing it. This is only one of the movie's she's done with Jackie. off the the top of my head, I can name many others, but let it suffice to say that for action, comedy, and Maggie Cheung, Jackie Chan's TWIN DRAGONS can't lose.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is NOT an ORIGINAL VERSION !!!
Review: 1 star is not to the movie - movie itself is one of my favorites - but for the US edition.
Some idiots are cutting all the time LARGE parts of Jackie Chan movies for the US. Does anybody know why? I think they just hate Jackie Chan and don't want to others enjoy his performance as well.

In the US edition of "Rumble in the Bronx" they deleted the entire love line (it may surprised some people, but there are 2 of them in the full version).

So, if you like Jackie movies, avoid this edition and try to get the Hong Kong one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Review: DAMN! This movie put me to sleep. I am a die hard Jackie fan but this movie jsut plain ol' sux. Sorry Jackie but i can't defend you in this one. DAMN THIS MOVIE IS STUPID! Ok back to sleep for me.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Fun for Jackie Fans
Review: Face it, there are only a few Jackie Chan films that aren't worth owning. I mean, for 15 bucks, how could you NOT buy 'em? "Twin Dragons" is terminally silly, but still delivers its quota of creative stunts and brilliant fight scenes. Fans of Jackie fights in unusual settings will love the sequences in the body shop, including one jump -- while fighting -- INTO the window and OUT the door of a car. It's also unusual to see babes in a Jackie flick but this one features two of Hong Kong's sexiest. You get to see Jackie clown around a lot since the two characters he plays are from such different ends of the social spectrum: a highly cultured world-famous pianist/conductor and a two-bit crook from the gutters of Hong Kong who "rolls" with a midget that can't act.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Fun for Jackie Fans
Review: Face it, there are only a few Jackie Chan films that aren't worth owning. I mean, for 15 bucks, how could you NOT buy 'em? "Twin Dragons" is terminally silly, but still delivers its quota of creative stunts and brilliant fight scenes. Fans of Jackie fights in unusual settings will love the sequences in the body shop, including one jump -- while fighting -- INTO the window and OUT the door of a car. It's also unusual to see babes in a Jackie flick but this one features two of Hong Kong's sexiest. You get to see Jackie clown around a lot since the two characters he plays are from such different ends of the social spectrum: a highly cultured world-famous pianist/conductor and a two-bit crook from the gutters of Hong Kong who "rolls" with a midget that can't act.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious!
Review: first of all, yes, that is Jackie chan providing the english dubbing for his character. man, this movie had me in stitches!
the funniest scene is where boomer is caught cunducting the Symphony Orchestra. I never laughed so hard at one of jackie chans scenes like that!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Bad re-edit of a fun film
Review: For some reason when it was released in the US this year they decided to edit out most of the comedic scenes and most anything not directly involving Jackie Chan from the earlier release. They also almost totally replaced the soundtrack with music that for the most part didn't match the scene. I like Jackie Chan films but this release was very disapointing. The only up side was that the voices were re-dubbed by I think by the original actors. The action is still good but the older versions of the film are better.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Silly
Review: Great stunts, decent story, good fight scenes, but some of the action was just plain silly. Most Jackie Chan movies try WAY too hard to be funny, and this one is no exception. It just isn't funny and the attempts are silly and unintelligent. They should just stick to fighting and stunts and they'll be fine. Jackie Chan is terrible at comedy.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: a good funny movie but not an action one.
Review: I am a cantonese person and I rent this US version dvd. Is some ways it disapointted me because it doesn't provide cantonese audio and they substitute English audio instead. Anyway, this movie is so funny is so ways. I especially like the bathroom scene. It can't help laugh loudly. The action parts are quite boring but I think American people would like to watch them.
I would like to give it a 4 stars if it provides chinese audio.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: You'll Laugh
Review: I can't say that 4-stars for a Jackie Chan movie = 4-stars for a Scorcese movie, but this movie was lots of fun and I really laughed hard about 5 or 6 times and a little less a bunch of other times. You need patience at first, the start is a little slow, but there are some great laughs and great fight scenes. Give it a shot with an open mind! It'll make for a fun Sunday afternoon.


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