Rumble in the Bronx
Review
Format: English VHS
Stars: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, other idiots

Another Mr. Nice Guy, only a little better. Jackie was in this movie as his debut in America (in the late 90's that is). I don't wanna bother with the plot. It has punks and idiots in suits in it, and that should be enough. In the beginning of the movie, Jackie wears a wife beater to show his arms, which had gotten significantly bigger since Druken Master 2 in 1994. Then he wears a leotard, and later on he has another tank top on. This is show, I think. It worked, too. Americans realized that Jackie Chan is buff.

Jackie does some cool stuff too. In the beginning, he finds an old Wing Chun dummy, and he does some practicing on it, and he does it fast too. They should have mentioned that he was using Wing Chun because the American audience doesn't know what the Wing Chun dummy is. He uses some in a store to fight off some gangsters too, using his jacket to hold arms and heads. Then there's a scene outside in a playground where he does a branny off a garbage can, and also climbs through a small hole in a fence. Short scene, though. After that there's a scene inside a parking garage, which impressed me. First, he climbs a chainlink fence against a wall probably 14 or 15 feet tall, just by running between that and the wall. Very well done. Looked just like him, so I doubt there was a double. Then, he climbs, on the outside, up to the next level, and the next, which was extremely dangerous, but I don't doubt that they had something below in case he fell. On the top level, he's in the back of a pickup, and he jumps out of it before it fall over the ledge onto the ground. To get away, he jumps over to a building across the way, pretty far too. I don't know if he did it or not. The outtakes make me think so, but I'm doubtful because it showed the guy who did it from so far away, and his haircut was bigger than Jackie's, yet he did the same butt shake move that Jackie does, and when it showed Jackie fallen, obviously he hadn't done it before that. But I give the double, if there was one, credit for such a good stunt.

Before I get into the other action, I'll address some complaints. The acting is bad. I expected it, the little kid especially. And the producers were stupid too. At one point, he's playing a Game Gear, which is making lots of random beaps and jingles.. without a game in it. The kid's sister is wearing nylons at one point, but right before she wasn't.

Jackie fights a guy named Tony at the end, which failed to impress me since it was poorly choreographed, the camera was bad, and Tony used a double. Immediately afterwords he fights 20 people. This doesn't work in the real world. Maybe 5, or 6, but never 20, in a room full of bottles and big heavy things. He'd get trampled. Like I said this is a debut movie. He uses bottles, skis, pinball machines, refridgerators, a shopping cart, and other stuff too. It's ok, Jackie moves around pretty well, but whacks goons like it's nothing. He gets a few more stunts, like jumping onto a hovercraft from about 10 or 12 feet up, breaking his ankle in the process, and being tied to and dragged by it in the water. There's a scene where a bus spins out, and you can clearly see a big tripod that is spinning it. Cheaply done. And a guy is supposedly driving a Lamborghini, and you see that it's just a piece of plastic on top of some POS 4 banger with a loose rear axle. If it WAS a Lamborghini, then it was a cheap one.

What I also don't like is that the sounds are recycled. They're the same ones in Mr. Nice Guy and Who Am I?. That's easy to notice. The music is redundant too.

So, an average movie, much better than Mr. Nice Guy and Who Am I?.

6/10

UPDATE 10/9 - Rating System Change

3/5 - Jackie still shouldn't do American movies.

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