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The Legend of Drunken Master

The Legend of Drunken Master

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Legend Of Drunken Master (1994)
Review: This is the sequel to "Drunken Master" and most probably even better! The funny thing is that Jackie's parents in the film are Antia Mui (who is much younger than Jackie) and Ti Lung (who is seven years older than Jackie). Anyway this is a must for Jackie Chan fans! This film is filled with Jackie's uaual physical comedy! Highlight: when Jackie gets kicked into a coal pool of fire at the end!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Legend Of Drunken Master (1994)
Review: This is the sequel to "Drunken Master". this film isn't just good, it's better than the original. this film isn't just fighting it's about the style. The weird thing is that Jackie's parents in the film are Antia Mui (who's much younger than Jackie) and Ti Lung (who in real life is seven years older than Jackie). Highlight: Last fight... one of the best fights ever!!!! In this film Jackie gets kicked into a coal pool of fire! Don't miss it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Chan's best work ever!
Review: Being an avid fan of martial arts, specifically Jackie Chan, I have seen most of his movies. This one may not have the best acting, the best dialogue, or even the best plot. But it has the best idea, and certainly the bets fights! Chan is Wong Fei Hung, an real-life Chinese hero who is not only a drunken master, but a doctor. In this movie, Wong Fei Hung is a young man who is not only reckless, but disobediant. Despite his father's wishes, he beats the [heck] out of the baddies using drunken boxing. The more he drinks, the more butt he kicks! But is he drinking too much? Buy this DVD and be amazed at the best fights ever to grace....ANYWHERE!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: this is the ultimate jackie movie
Review: one of Jackie's best. it's up there with the OG drunken master, police story, etc.

Jackie plays Wong Fei Hong and Fei-Hong gets in trouble when evil Chinese (the type wearing suits, those Westernized bastards) steal national treasures for export to the West. Fei-Hong gets involved when he accidentally acquires a jade seal in a wacky suitcase mix-up. When the bad guys try to recover it Jackie Chan-type stunts and fights ensue.

The fight sequence will leave you breathless, The choreography is creative and the stuntwork is full of jaw-dropping, painful moments that look even worse when you see the obligatory Jackie Chan outtakes. For fans of Jackie Chan fighting flicks, this movie is an instant classic.

And the supporting cast , Li Tung , Anita Mui and Andy Tak Wah Lau!!! he's just a cameo tho. Chin Kar-Lok, Lau Kar-Leung, and Jackie's bodyguard/member of his stunt crew Ken Lo.

So watch it, this truly is what HK comedy/action is all about

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A genre film
Review: Fans of Jackie Chan and the martial arts genre will relish the many fight scenes as well as the comedic performance of this film.

The story revolves around a son trying to win his father's approval, the smuggling of Chinese antiquities out of China into England, and the legitimization of a form of martial arts known as "drunken boxing." The story is not the frame of the story, but merely a device to hold the action scenes together. The fight in the steel factory and the fight under the train are tour de force.

Unless you simply want to watch to fast action and masterful fighting, I would not recommend this film. There is not enough of a plot to really get involved with the film.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Disappointing
Review: First, let me state that I'm a big martial arts film fan. When my wife got this DVD for my birthday, I was pleasantly surprised. When it was re-released in the US, I never had an opportunity to see it on the big screen, but remembered all the good reviews. I was really looking forward to a good movie, but was very disappointed. Although I realize that Jackie Chan movies are somewhat comical and campy by design, this movie suffers from bad acting (the stepmother is horrible), lame dialogue, ridiculous story line, over-the-top bad guys, etc. Although the fight scenes where well choreographed as you would expect, they are inserted around so much garbage that it cannot salvage this turkey. 2 stars out of 5.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: how can you not like a Jackie Chan movie???
Review: Jackie Chan is the trouble prone son of a local doctor and martial
arts instructor. In an attempt to help his Dad avoid paying taxes on some
ginseng he is bringing home for one of his patients, Jackie stows the root
in luggage belonging to a local political official. When he attempts to
retrieve it, he finds someone else digging in the same baggage and a battle
ensues. Jackie is stymied at every turn, even when he uses his famous
Drunken Boxing, but finally retrieves the precious package and makes it back
to the train as it is leaving the station.
Unfortunately as all Jackie Chan fans can figure, Jackie got the
wrong box. It seems the official was smuggling out a famous Chinese
artifact and the man who was going through the luggage was a special
investigator trying to get evidence. This local official is using the
factory in Jackie's town to hide all the other relics he has stolen and
becomes enraged when he discovers the theft has been committed. He ships

his men all over town searching and they final track down Jackie and his
spitfire step-mother and try to steal the artifact back. Jackie is a ball
of fire rolling through the group but is vastly outnumbered. His step-mother
takes matters into her hands and begins throwing bottles of liquor at him
since what could better help a master of Drunken Boxing than getting drunk.
Jackie ends up beating the gang and disgracing his father in the
process who has always told him not to use this style. His father knows
that many practitioners of this style end up as drunks in the end and
worries the same will happen to his son.
Finally Jackie is forced into helping rescue some of his friends who
are trapped in the factory. The battle that follows is a dazzling display
of Drunken Boxing at it's finest.
This movie succeeds at all levels. It doesn't promise any hidden
agenda and fail to deliver. It promises a martial arts packed movie with
dazzling stunts and comedy to boot...and it works. Jackie was trained in
the Hong Kong Opera at an early age and his talents are never more on
display. The opening fight which takes part under a train is something that
must be seen to be believed. The two combatants use a spear and a sword in
their battle and basically are in a crouch the entire length of the car.
Subsequent scenes incorporating the drunken movies are both hilarious and
awesome in the ease of the choreography.
Another good point for this movie is the dubbing is better than any
many I have seen. They even allow Jackie to dub his own voice which is
something that doesn't always happen for English speaking foreign actors.
As usual with a Jackie Chan movie you must also watch the deleted scenes
that are shown during the credits.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AMAZING!!!
Review: If you have never seen this movie, you have NEVER seen Jackie Chan at the height of his career! There are no big leaps or death defying falls. Drunken Master is all about fluid movements and fantastic martial arts. Chan's style needs to be seen to be believed, or described for that matter! I liked Jackie Chan before I saw this movie, but now that I have, I have a respect for him that I didn't have before. I am spellbound whenever I see the movie and I marvel at his manipulation of the whole body. Drunken Master is truly my favorite movie of all time and I promise that you will enjoy it after you see it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: What's up with the vocal tracks?
Review: I would have given it a 5 except I'm aggravated and baffled by the fact that it is a movie originally filmed in Chinese, yet they were too lazy to LEAVE IN the original chinese audio track! They already include English subtitles too! How hard is it to leave in the default audio and use the subtitles already provided? I mean, they bothered to put a french dub on there, for pete's sake!
And this is on the DVD! They have plenty of room.

That's just stupid. Instead they include more film trailers than I've ever seen. What a waste. I didn't pay for film previews.

Still, at least the dubbing isn't bad.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Outstanding
Review: As a long-time fan of Jackie Chan, I would have to say this has the best fight choreography of all his movies, especially since it highlights the Drunken Master style which hasn't been show-cased much elsewhere. (As a long-time martial instructor myself, I once had the pleasure of sparring against someone who knew the Drunken style, and it was very interesting, to say the least).

But getting back to the movie, several of the fight scenes are amazingly long, too, all of which just further emphasizes Chan's ability to set up and film these sorts of scenes. The comic relief aspect of the movie is there also, and the final fight with the guy with the lightning fast kicks (unfortunately I don't know the actor's name) is nicely done too. The only thing that would have made it better would have been more fight time featuring Liu Kang of Mortal Kombat, but the movie still stands on it's own as possibly Jackie's best in terms of overall martial-arts technique and choreography.


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