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Summary: best old school kung-fu ever ! ; also Jackie's best kung fu
Review: " Snake in the eagle's shadow ", to me is the definitive Jackie Chan old kung-fu movies, including his Drunken Master 1.The 3 main casts are Jackie Chan, Yuen Suen Tin(Simon Yuen) ,& Hwang Jang Lee. The film is directed by Yuen Woo Ping.The plot or story of this movie is typical, fairly simple like most other old kung-fu movies where the lead, whom is Jackie Chan, a janitor in a kung-fu school is taught by a beggar, who happen to be a Snake fist style master. The main villain of the movie is Hwang Jang Lee, an eagle claw master & wanted to eradicate every snake fist style & it's every masters. What differentiates this kung-fu movie is the theme surrounding the movie- which is somewhat dramatical & extremely lonely & emotional story. It simply veers away from the usual kung- fu flick and instead emphasizes good quality & great storyline.The movie explore more on the human side and the humane characteristics of the casts, for example, the constant abuse and beatings receive by the lead (Jackie Chan) up to a point where not only his body refuse to received anymore pain from it, but also his mind & emotion telling him not to cooperate anymore. Also the instance, when Simon Yuen, the beggar & master of snake fist got hurt and wounded severely due to an unexpected attack from his opponents. Simon Yuen escapes and coincidentally met Jackie Chan along the way, and thus, Jackie bring him back to good health by taking care of him.The scenes where Simon gets hurt and escapes, and also, where Jackie take good care of him to health is heartbreaking, heartwarming and sincerely emotional. In fact, quality scenes like these encompasses the entire movie per se. In terms of excellent action/kung-fu scenes, the movie also did not scrimped. Apparently, this film is made with a better budget thus resulted in a far more than better production quality or value, and this film, evidently, is made with great amount of planning & meticulous amount of preparations. All in all, in my opinion, " Snake in the eagle's shadow " is the best old school kung-fu ever. Bar none. Highly recommended !
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Summary: best old school kung-fu ever ! ; also Jackie's best kung fu
Review: " Snake in the eagle's shadow ", to me is the definitive Jackie Chan old kung-fu movies, including his Drunken Master 1.The 3 main casts are Jackie Chan, Yuen Suen Tin(Simon Yuen) ,& Hwang Jang Lee. The film is directed by Yuen Woo Ping. The plot or story of this movie is typical, fairly simple like most other old kung-fu movies where the lead, whom is Jackie Chan, a janitor in a kung-fu school is taught by a beggar, who happen to be a Snake fist style master. The main villain of the movie is Hwang Jang Lee, an eagle claw master & wanted to eradicate every snake fist style & it's every masters. What differentiates this kung-fu movie is the theme surrounding the movie- which is somewhat dramatical & extremely lonely & emotional story. It simply veers away from the usual kung- fu flick and instead emphasizes good quality & great storyline.The movie explore more on the human side and the humane characteristics of the casts, for example, the constant abuse and beatings receive by the lead (Jackie Chan) up to a point where not only his body refuse to received anymore pain from it, but also his mind & emotion telling him not to cooperate anymore. Also the instance, when Simon Yuen, the beggar & master of snake fist got hurt and wounded severely due to an unexpected attack from his opponents. Simon Yuen escapes and coincidentally met Jackie Chan along the way, and thus, Jackie bring him back to good health by taking care of him.The scenes where Simon gets hurt and escapes, and also, where Jackie take good care of him to health is heartbreaking, heartwarming and sincerely emotional. In fact, quality scenes like these encompasses the entire movie per se. In terms of excellent action/kung-fu scenes, the movie also did not scrimped. Apparently, this film is made with a better budget thus resulted in a far more than better production quality or value, and this film, evidently, is made with great amount of planning & meticulous amount of preparations. All in all, in my opinion, " Snake in the eagle's shadow " is the best old school kung-fu ever. Bar none. Highly recommended !
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Summary: This is not the original!
Review: ...The original Snake in the Eagle's Shadow...is BRILLIANT. But the movie being offered is Snake in the Eagle's Shadow II, which is nowhere near as good.
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Summary: This is a CLASSIC!
Review: Although you may be dissapointed to learn that this movie doesn't actually have Jackie Chan in it, the fighting and comedy are worthy of the Chan name. I highly recommend this movie. Zakarius
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Summary: The Ultimate Jackie Chan Movie
Review: Before I go on I must say that my score is based on a heavy tilt. As a DVD this has nothing to really merit 5 stars in the way of features, extras and the ilk. But you're not buying this movie for features are you? You're buying it because this happens to be one of the finest Kung Fu movies ever made.
There is a plot that revolves around two feuding kung fu schools, the snakefist and the eagle's claw. The eagle's claw has all but won, having successfully killed most of the members of the snakefist. Jackie Chan plays an errand boy working in a small kung-fu school and he happens to come across the last remaining master of the snake fist and provides him out with food and shelter.
That's the plot. Its full of holes but at the same time it is dotted with some hilarious moments, highlighted by excellent fighting scenes, and carried by jackie chan's irresistable charm.
This is old school jackie chan. If you've only seen his new films you will most likely not like this. For people who really enjoy his older work or want to see a classic jackie chan film, this is amongst the best. I also recommend police story which is another jackie chan classic.
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Summary: Jackie's First Hit
Review: Digitally remastered for fabulous DVD, this film was pivotal in that it defined the type of films Jackie Chan would make from then on. It was grossly imitated back then and perhaps Billy Chong's "Jade Claw" and "Superpower" were the only ones that were close enough. Even when I watch the film today, I am still awed by Jackie Chan's expert execution of the Snake Style.
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Summary: Great top 15 all time
Review: How can that reviewer below give this 1 star, this is a classic the first collabaration between Yeun Woo Ping and Jackie Chan.It has terrific fights and I love Simen Yeun his Woo PING father who also plays in Woo's second film Drunken master witch was slightly better go get this Dvd its great!
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Summary: ALWAYS stick with ORIGINAL
Review: I love the crew in this movie - minus as the previous reviewer mentioned, the Russian priest (he was kind of an odd addition to the movie). I love the plot and the kung fu - snake fist vs. eagle claw and the combination. Though, in spite of the great kung fu action, I still crazy about Drunken Master movie and just love drunken style boxing.
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Summary: Great Kung Fu
Review: I love the crew in this movie - minus as the previous reviewer mentioned, the Russian priest (he was kind of an odd addition to the movie). I love the plot and the kung fu - snake fist vs. eagle claw and the combination. Though, in spite of the great kung fu action, I still crazy about Drunken Master movie and just love drunken style boxing.
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Summary: Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
Review: It was good to see that Columbia/TriStar pictures had released the 2 movie dvd edition of Jackie Chan's classics. I watched Snake in the Eagle's Shadow since I was a young boy. I remembered watching it many times. This was back in the early 80s. Now watching it again is a delight. Though, a very important part of the film was cut. This changed the tone of the film since it is the pivot of the storyline. The story was about how Jackie Chan learned the Snake Style from the old beggar, who is the master of the Snake Style. However, a vicious martial art opponent with an Eagle style was determined to wipe out the Snake Style clan. Chan didn't know this was going, and the old beggar was on the run, to escape from the Eagle Style master. Through the middle part of the story, Chan discovered that the Snake style manual that was left to him was torn apart by his cat. He found his cat trapped in a corner of the room confronted by a cobra snake. In the original film, it actually revealed how the cat won the fight against the cobra, with agility and the speed of its claw. The snake failed in its offensive attempts, and in the end the cat killed it. This scene brought an important revelation to Jackie that he could integrate the cat fighting system into his current Snake fighting style. The scene is pivotal because he saw how the cat avoided and faught back the snake. This I believe, is not only important for the film, but also for the audience, who can see logically how Jackie would adapt such style. The fight between the cat and the snake was omitted, where we could only see the confrontation of the snake and the cat, and the next cut was the snake dying on the floor with the cat next to it. I am not sure whether this only happens in the region 4 version, but I suspect its a standard cut. This totally throw me out of the exciting experience of watching the movie since it didn't match the original film. I can't make any sense out of why Columbia/TriStar would want to cut the scene. It degrades the experience of watching a classic movie such as this one. I would recommend finding another version if possible, released in Hong Kong perhaps.
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