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Jackie Chan's Who Am I?

Jackie Chan's Who Am I?

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of te greatest Chan movies
Review: This is one of the greatest movies he has made! The action is great and it has some great stunts!(the roof drop is the best) Worth the money!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Ah, just like the old days
Review: I'm not sure why this movie wasn't released in U.S. theaters. Yes, it has bad acting (just like his other movies). Yes, it has a bad script (just like his other movies). And anyone who says "this movie actually has a PLOT" is kidding themselves. But what this movie has that most of the others didn't was a excellent 1-on-1 fight that turns into another 1-on-1 fight and finally becomes a supurb 2-on-1 fight. This is not some quick little fight, either. It lasts a while. Finally, an ending we can enjoy (no underwater fighting or driving through glass houses). Plus, it has all the classic stunts, action, and great "I will use any and every object in the room to fight with" scenes we love.

I would give it 4 1/2 stars if I could. Why not 5? Two reasons. One: I was initally bored with the slow beginning. Two: Drunken Master 2.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the better Chan movies
Review: I was afraid this would be another disapointment like Mr. Nice Guy and Operation Condor 2, but it's one of the best. Lots of good fighting.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Netscape
Review: 1000

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: SPOILER - What is missing in the US Release of Who Am I?Pt.2
Review: After the discussion with the doctor, the US release cuts to the CIA guy at the shooting range. He takes his phone call and after the phone call it cuts to the ambulance arriving. The original continues with Whoami and Yuki talking after the race as Whoami starts to get control of his mouth back after chewing the medicinal herb. We get the extra conversation about the discussion with the doctor and Jackie gets a ride away in her big rig. After a brief drive away scene the original version continues with a complete shooting range scene and phone conversation and continues where the US version cuts to, the scene of the ambulance arriving at Sunninghill Hospital. The hospital scenes are the same except the US version trims 6 seconds or so out of the doctors chat and Yuki and Whoami's conversation before they split.

Now everything runs identical until we cut to the power station. The original release starts with the Benz truck coming in and the scientists being offloaded, then we get the shot of the meteor fragment in the gooey liquid. Since this has already been seen in the US release, the US release resumes with the pan across the control room. With no seeming loss of total product we resume synched in the control room. The explosion sequence is half a minute longer in the original release. It appeared due to content rather than a difference in the playback speeds. The mayhem sequence from the hospital shot on is also a bit longer in the original version.

We are all synched up until the flashback during the interrogation by internal security. In the original, the flashback continues flawlessly and it ends with the flashback sequence that had been extracted and used early on in the us release. The scene with the pilot bailing out and the helicopter with Jackie falling to the jungle floor. There seems to be no loss of total content, just another cut and paste job for the US version. We resume synched in the interrogation.

--Second Half of Film--

We are synched until the car stuck in the rocks sequence. Several seconds of the original version have been clipped out of the US release. We continue synched onto the highway. A few seconds have been clipped from the chase scene and the US release shows the sideways-car-through-the-alley shot only once, whereas the original has the more traditional multi angle take.

11 seconds extra in the original release of the car chase up the parking garage...and we resume with the crumpled car on the street. The two versions run virtually synched minus 3 or 4 seconds during the exchange up in the office building just before the laptop shot that shows "Eurasia Bank - Welcome to Electronic Banking Services - Please enter your PIN." Another 6 seconds is clipped following the laptop screen shot. 6 seconds or so missing from the following scene. The rest of the movie is identical minus one or two seconds in the US version at the absolute end of the film. In addition the US credit/outtake sequence is about 26 seconds longer than that of the international release.

Basically the second half of the film is only missing 20-30 seconds of the original. The first half of the film has been reworked and there are three scenes cut from the US release as well as a few minutes cut from other scenes.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: SPOILER - What is missing in the US Release of Who Am I?Pt.1
Review: In the opening (pre opening logo) scene where the mysterious rock is being transported through the rocky desert the US release has edited out about 5 seconds of the driving/bumping that goes on before the explosion of the vehicle.

Deployment into the trees right after the Who Am I? Logo...the US version has stripped out about 30 seconds or more of the whole deployment. I'm not sure if this is because of the beauty of the original shots (in letterbox on the video disc) vs. the cropped version that aired or purely for time. Regardless, I resume synched up at the laptop screen at the end of the deployment.

The rumble in the jungle is almost identical with just a few seconds dropped from the US version. The same is true about the arrival of the choppers and the equipment collection and loading. Only a few seconds have been stripped out of the US version.

Now, the US version cuts directly to the elite troops in the chopper (dialogue - "So sorry I have to do this,") the original release takes us to a video screen of Jackie Chan's profile and a CIA meeting. After the CIA meeting we have the exchange with the senior military officers, the meeting where they decide to bring in outside help then it cuts to Jackie's naked back as he lies wounded. Now in the US release we go through the whole helicopter scene for the first time, having not even got there in the original version which has run longer so far.... So now that the US version has run the whole helicopter fight/struggle for the controls/Jackie dropping. Jackie finally hits the ground and boom now we are at the video screen at the CIA briefing. At this point I will let the US version catch up with the original version. The CIA briefing and military exchange run without noticeable editing in the US version and we cut to Jackie in the hut. The Original version uses about an extra 10-15 seconds tending to indicate Jackie being there for a few days, or at the very least going in and out of consciousness and noticing things in the room around him. Finally we are synched as we look out the door into the light. With the exception of a few extra seconds of the tribesman coming in the hut, the two versions are identical throughout the whole village scene....until with the shot of the tribesmen on the top of the painted red rock hill. The US version cuts to the shot of the Benz truck coming into the power plant with the scientists. The Original version continues to our Agent Morgan and his Asian CIA associate on the small jet. After the powerplant scene with the meteor fragments in the gooey liquid, the US version has the jet scene and then cuts directly to Whoami and the boy returning to the village.

This would appear to be the first scene that didn't make it to the US version at all. In the Original version we have a great discussion between Jackie and the boy from the tribe. The dialogue isn't in English, but it seems to be a discussion about the passage of time and such things. Then Jackie finds the lion cubs and we have the cute scene where Jackie doesn't get it until he is chased by a lioness into a tree. Then we sync up to the US version.

Now as we come up on the wreckage, the US version has a condensed flashback of just the helicopters and then cuts back to Whoami at the wreckage. The Original version has a flashback of the assault on the trucks in the jungle which runs directly into the helicopter flashback and ends back at the wreckage with Whoami.

Everything synchs up until we cut back to the village. In the US version the scene starts out with Whoami already sitting down with the tribe. In the original, Jackie is sitting alone contemplatively in a hut and is coaxed out by a group of kids. We get a nice scene of the dancing and festivities and then we get to the scene of Whoami sitting down with the tribe and we are once again synched up.

Everything is identical, Whoami get taken out to see the lights, we lose a second or two of him watching the jeeps through the binoculars in the US version and then the US version cuts directly to Jackie and his buddies from the tribe running along to the signature tune of the film. The original cuts back to the village for the second scene dropped from the US release. In this scene there is a bit of a ceremony at the village for Whoami. As near as I can figure he gets made an honorary tribe member, he thanks them and we rejoin the US version as the merry band of tribesman plus Whoami are strolling through the fields to the movies' signature tune.

We are in sync once again until Jackie's departure from his friends. Here we find the third scene clipped from the US version. In the US release they say good-bye and Jackie runs off. In the original Jack starts to leave, stops, plants his spear in the ground and does the little tribal jig. His friends respond he picks up his spear and runs off.

Everything stays synched until Whoami and Yuki set off in the 4x4. During the race, from start to finish, the US release cuts almost a minute of the race out of the original version. And we resume, synched at the finish line.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Movie
Review: I think this movie lives up to Jackie Chan's Movies. Having seen his films since a kid. I've glad that it has arrived in the United States...Although I think that the DVD should have included more languages like Chinese and Spanish. These languages preserve Jackie Chan's true form. Martial Arts At its Best!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best just got better!
Review: Having watched Jackie Chan films since the early days, I thought he maybe losing a bit of his edge as he gets older (and more commercialised). NOT A CHANCE!! This is my favourite Jackie Chan film of all time, it has every-thing: laughs, amazing-action, and a decent story. Also, it has an epic ending fight scene, which proves he's still no.1

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Jackie Chan does it again!!!!!
Review: This is one of Jackie Chan's best movies ever. One of his top ten stunts is even in this movie. I suggest that everone who loves Jackie Chan should own this video. Of course there is a lot of Jackie Chan humor in this movie. The only thing I found disapponting is the beginning is a little slow.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Jackie Chan Film
Review: This is the best Chan film I've seen so far. The story starts out slow but it gets much better. This is definitely my favorite movie of all time.


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