Drunken Master

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Summary: Warning!
Review: Although the title indicates that this is Drunken Master II, I received the original 1978 release after ordering. Just a warning if your were searching for part II, aka "The Legend of Drunken Master."

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Summary: Did they change the name?
Review: Another question here. Is this really drunken master 2 we're talking about here or drunken master. The plot details and the year that this was released is drunken master 2 but the name implies the first one that came out in 1977. Is this a re-release with english dubbing or some such nonsense like with operation condor where they switched the order of the movies because the second one is better? Please someone let me know so that i can decide if i should buy it.

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Summary: Drunken Master I or II?
Review: Before I buy this one, can anybody guarantee that this is the new Drunken Master we are talking about here? If this is the new one, the title has surely made some confusion.

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Summary: It's NOT Drunken Master 2 (1994). It's Drunken Master (1979)
Review: Don't buy that. The quality is the worse I've ever seen for a DVD. There is no features and the pictures on the package are from Drunken Master 2 and on the disk itself, there is a picture from the Drunken Master 2 poster and we can even read Drunken Master II in chinese. But it is not Drunken Master 2. Drunken Master 1 is very bad besides Drunken Master 2 and they are trying to sell us a bad movie by making us believed that it is another movie. Dishonest.

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Summary: Not 'AKA Drunken Master 2'
Review: Even the pictures on the DVD case are from Drunken Master 2/Legend of the Drunken Master. The quality (audio and visual) is exactly what you would expect from a film made in Hong Kong in 1979 ... not great. I think that the movie I saw, which was not the movie that I thought that I was ordering, was entertaining, funny, good Jackie Chan. DM2 though is more, well ... a movie that was made better (as in script, acting, non-dubbed), in my opinion. Be sure that you are getting what you want.

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Summary: Outstanding fight scenes, poor quality DVD
Review: I am a big Jackie Chan fan, so I bought this with high expectations. While the fight scenes are spectacular and well staged (an average of a fight every 5-10 minutes), the big disappointment in the is the quality of the transfer to DVD. The picture is blurry at times. Another disappointment is the sound. It is dubbed with very poor quality. Ironically it was very similar to the Kung Fu movies they used to show on television years ago, the very ones that made me a big fan of the genre. It was a trip down memory lane. I am still glad I bought it as a better version is not available and it is better than nothing.

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Summary: Outstanding fight scenes, poor quality DVD
Review: I am a big Jackie Chan fan, so I bought this with high expectations. While the fight scenes are spectacular and well staged (an average of a fight every 5-10 minutes), the big disappointment in the is the quality of the transfer to DVD. The picture is blurry at times. Another disappointment is the sound. It is dubbed with very poor quality. Ironically it was very similar to the Kung Fu movies they used to show on television years ago, the very ones that made me a big fan of the genre. It was a trip down memory lane. I am still glad I bought it as a better version is not available and it is better than nothing.

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Summary: That is a real Jackie Chan's movie
Review: I believe that a lot of new kongfu movie fans in US started with "matrix". Matrix is good only if you have rarely watched hongkong kongfu movies. You will feel matrix is like a bunch of fighting kids after watching DM2. This is a real kongfu movie, whereas rush hour and shanghai noon are not. It is rated by most of viewers as Jackie Chan's best movie ever made. To me and a lot of my friends, that is one of the best action movies ever made if not thee best.

The us released of this movie in 2000 is named "the legend of drunken master", which is badly dubbed and editted. The box office performance there doesn't reflect how good this movie is. I strongly recommend the original version with subtitle.

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Summary: Drunken Master 2 ?
Review: I bought this movie because of the hype surrounding Drunken Master 2. I really wanted to see the final fight scene. It really sucks that this is a completly different movie than it says on the top. This is "Drunken Master" made in 1979, not "Drunken Master 2" made in 1994 or "The Legend of Drunken Master" re-realeased in 2000. Don't get me wrong, this is a good movie for 1979. The worst part of the whole movie is the abysmal audio-video in the DVD. It looks and sounds like they recorded over a low quaulity VHS tape 50 times and then converted it to a DVD. The only reason that this video got 3 stars was because of the cool fight scenes. (I also hate Jackie Chan's skeaky dub-voice, but it's ok)

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Summary: NOT the recently re-released "Legend of Drunken Master"
Review: I have a copy of the DVD they are selling above. It is definitely NOT Drunken Master II. This is the original Drunken Master, made in 1978 I think, and its really a good movie. The only problem is, the DVD is the absolute worst transfer of anything I have ever seen in my life. The picture is so ugly and blurry, and the sound is crap. It's watchable, but I wouldn't recommend it. I gave it 5 stars for the movie, 0 stars for the dvd, which averages out to 3.