Apparently there are two versions of "The Accidental Spy" in circulation, the most commonly found cut one (which runs about 90 minutes) and the harder to find long one (which runs about 110 minutes). This certainly offers a reasonable explanation as to why the plot of this movie in its cut form seems so disjointed. But it does not fully explain why it is so dull. The tone swings wildly from light spy comedy to serious spy drama - the movie never seems sure of itself. The fighting is unremarkable if you've seen any of Jackie's previous outings, and some of the action scenes have a "been there, done that" feel to them. The climactic "Speed"-like sequence of a tanker that must not slow down or it will explode is spectacular, but has nothing to do with the main plot. On the bright side, there is at least one amazing stunt (Jackie jumping from the roof of a building to the road below using three umbrellas as parachutes!), there is a nice international flavor (the locations include Hong Kong, Seoul and Istanbul), there are two pretty Chinese women, and of course there is always Jackie. (**)

Jackie Chan's greatest weakness in his movies is predictability: you know the good triumphs over evil, the good guys are easy to identify, Jackie drop-kicks some butt, and he takes time to save kids and babies (not to mention babes, who sometimes save him). You know that if he gets the girl, he doesn't get very far (PG all the way).

In his best movies, this is his greatest strength, too: against the repeated backdrop of white and black hats, you're never quite sure how he's going to manage to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat. You know he's going to get cornered by 6 black hats with 18 weapons in some storage room...and somehow use whatever's stored there to do away with the evil-doers.

Unfortunately, in the Accidental Spy, we're not kept guessing very long. The fight scenes are overly predictable (and, too often, the victim of a punch will start rolling their head back before they're punched). The plot is as unimportant to the Jackie Chan machine as usual, but, unlike other movies of his, the characters aren't memorable. The love-interest is lovely, but not interesting. The spy-who-coulda-have-loved-Jackie is relegated to making plot-digressing phone calls ("did you order a helicopter?").

And it's too bad, because there's otherwise some good material here: drug kingpins and orphans, lost parents, competing spy agencies, and beautiful locations (especially those Istanbul and other parts of Turkey). It's too bad that his escape from a Turkish bathhouse is wasted in this movie (you try to confront a half-dozen apes with only your bath towel to save you...and then not even the towel).

The dubbing doesn't help. Instead of offering the film in its original Chinese with subtitles (easily possible in this digital age), we're stuck with dubbing that sucks away what little life remains in these two-dimensional characters.

I really like Chan's movies, but he could have phoned his performance in for this one. Chan, unfortunately, is missing from his own movie.

As a vehicle for Jackie Chan action sequences, this movie is decent. There are some clever scenes, and while some, particularly one in which a naked Jackie tries to cover himself while his enemies seem determined to keep them off, make no sense, they are amusing.

Unfortunately, the story is an absolute mess. None of it makes any real sense and it's often unclear what on earth is going on. The movie just jumps from scene to scene with little thought for the sense of it all.

The movie also ends, not with a typical Chan action scene, but with a highway scene that uses none of Chan's talents, is confused and lacks any sort of excitement or suspense. It is a huge misstep in a film full of small missteps.

If one of the earlier reviewers is correct, then the Dimension release (which I saw) must have butchered a passable original, for I can't imagine Chan being in anything this poor. The Accidental Spy was beautifully photographed with some excellent fight and car-chase sequences, but whomever redid the dialogue for the English-language market had little idea of plot or continuity. The sound quality was additionally horrid, making the film even harder to follow.

Hopefully one of these days I'll get to see the Chinese original. In this form, The Accidental Spy fares very poorly in comparison with Police Story or Drunken Master II.

Except for one glaring error, I think Dimension Films did an excellent job in recutting/redubbing The Accidental Spy for the American Market. They didn't cut any major action sequences, the editing in general was better in the US version, and the actors who did the dubbing in the US version were 500% better than the ones who spoke English in the original (especially the woman who played Carmen--she had a gorgeous face, but her English was less convincing than Jackie's and she was a horrible actress to boot). Also, the new English dialog is MUCH better in Dimension's version, easily beating out the original's English dialoge as well as the subtitle translations of it's Cantonese and Turkish dialoge.

For instance, in an early scene where shop-clerk Jackie is demonstrating exercise equipment to a middle aged man and his hot young wife, the man becomes indignant over that attention Chan pays to his trophy spouse. In the original version, the translation of his complaint about Chan to the shop manager is "Is he a circus clown?" In the US version, he says, "Is he hitting on my wife?" which makes MUCH more sense (to americans anyway).

Of course, the most unusual thing about this re-edit is that Dimension gave the film an entirely different story! The original was about the chase for an ultra-lethal, weaponized pathogen called Anthrax II. Spy was set to come out right in the middle of our nation's big Anthrax scare, however, so that was out. In Dimension's remake, everyone is chasing after vials of a prototype drug 100 times more addictive than heroin. I say "six of one, half a dozen of the other." The chase is the important part in a Jackie Chan movie, not what everyone's running after. In fact, the drug plot works much better in many ways.

The only thing they messed up was the very end of the film--a common problem for Dimension (see the awkward end of the US version of Legend of Drunken Master). Spy's original ending was both bittersweet and comic. The US version's chopped up ending is just jarringly abrupt and the explanation of the plot is even more nonsensical than the HK version (oddly enough, the "simple" US-version explanation is more unbelievable than the convoluted version in the original.).

The Accidental Spy is Chan's best HK film in years--great cinematography, slick set design, great action! A class act, as these things go.

Chinese actor Jackie Chan proved to be the best actor,and stunt-man in "The Accidental Spy "in its English dubbed version. There had been a combination of action,thrill,and comedy in this film where Jackie portrays a man who discovers that his father was an agent and he finds himself involved with a Chinese drug Mafia. Also,Jackie never hesitates to add more suspense,and humor in "The Accidental Spy",including the Turkish bath scene,and the burning truck which makes him a star with unique qualities superior to other actors. Finally,this film with its wonderful cast,and director Teddy Chan deserves 10 stars.

I had heard good things about this movie and was very psyched to check it out as I love Chan's easy going humour and mad fighting styles. But as I saw it I got more and more frustrated - where were the people on the cover and where were the jets and parachute people? Silly as it is with things on the cover that aren't in the film, the dubbing is utterly painful - totally out of synch - and when the story is as fragmented as is the case in the version I saw, one has to wonder if the dubbing missed out things, or if the Danish version has been cut, because the storyline is pretty much impossible to understand.

Jackie has some good moves and there are a couple of very pretty gels to look at for a few moments, but that is about the qualities that are to be found in this movie. The storyline in the Danish release is impossible to understand for anyone with a normal IQ, as is the character progression, and the quality of the effects are below par for what can be expected.

All in all this version is a sorely disappointing flick and not one that can be recommended, unless you are a hardcore Jackie Chan fan.

4/10

That unfairly never made it to the Cinemas (well in the UK anyway) probably because most of the dialogue is dubbed into English. There is more than enough action, with countless breathtaking stunts (Mainly performed by Chan himself) The bad Guys though are very much underused - so you never really feel Jackie's life is in danger. Otherwise a very good Chan Movie that's a must watch for his fans

My rating 8/10

This is one of Chan's Hong Kong-movies, and it seems to lack much of the basics that makes his better movies, well, better. When it comes to the fighting scenes, they aren't that bad. They are typical Chan-fighting scenes which involves many items in special ways. They are also funny, and especially one of them lasts long. Apart from that, there are nothing good in this movie. The story is nearly non-existing. This comes as no surprise, especially when we know that the story got changed from the Chinese to the English version. I really have to warn people from watching this movie only based on the film's cover. Here's why: There's a black man on the cover. Where the heck was he in the movie? I didn't see the blonde girl on the cover in the movie either. And military airplanes? If you haven't guessed it already: There are no such planes in the movie. If the movie had been any good, I guess they wouldn't have to make a halfway fake cover like they have.

So last week I caught the Tuxedo. It was very disappointing.

I then really wanted to see a good Jackie Chan film, I remembered reading about this on IMDB, and was happy to see it at my local video store.

I don't understand why they did not release this movie in Theatres here in the US. (it is a good film, unlike some of that other direct to video crap) I enjoyed it, and think it's one of Jackie Chans best. Sure, Kung Fu hungry fans will want more fighting. But overall this movie hits the mark. Everyone should watch this one if your a fan of Jackie Chan.

9 out of 10 for me.

I just saw it last night, and after reading about the "serious tone" of the film I was surprised to see what looked like the usual "happy-go-lucky" sort of stuff we'd expect....silly robbers, some mugging, Jackie running naked through the streets of Turkey. But about halfway through things took a turn toward darkness. I liked this...not everything needs to be sugar-coated, and we get to see Jackie act, with some good supporting players. There's a pretty vicious plot twist or two, which I felt made things even more interesting, and though I'd read about the film, it still kept my attention. On the obvious side there's some really awesome stuntwork, some of the coolest things I've seen done, and the fighting, though short is as usual fun to watch. My only complaint is that I felt things wrapped up waaaay to quickly with the major villains, and though the ending was neat, I was sort of distracted by this. All in all though, good story, good acting, and the seriousness was much appreciated...8/10

I'm a big Chan fan and have watched most of his films.

This one seems to be a forerunner (except the Aussie-based ones) to his attempt to internationalize himself by appearing with Western co-actors and filming on international locations. I would say that A.S. is the better of this group of films. It has a resonable plot with more purpose than most of his other films. It also has a decent filming location in Turkey, and his co-stars also have some degree of character. We also still manage to savour some good quality stunt antics before they are about to all but disappear in Chan's most recent films of Tuxedo etc.

Worth selecting out of Chan's collection.

A worker in an athletic equipment store (Jackie Chan) saves the day when a robbery is going down. With a bit of fame, he attracts the attention of a dying Korean man who believes the hero is his long lost son. But, after traveling to Korea to meet with his supposed father, Jackie learns he may have a large bank account in Istanbul and his dad may have been involved in drug trafficking, too. Even as Jackie jets off to Turkey and fills a suitcase with his new bank-vault fortune, various groups of bad guys are out to get him. One of them dangles a beautiful young lady as bait for a trap. Will Jackie fall for it? Also, is the CIA involved in some respect? This is a fairly exciting movie which sports Jackie's patented and imaginative martial arts talent. Watching him get away from his pursuers by squirting shampoo in their eyes, among other things, is fun, no doubt about that. There is also a great scene in an open market where a disrobed Chan covers his vitals with tambourines and other handy items. Chuckle, chuckle. This dubbed film from the Hong Kong filmmakers also offers an excellent visual tour of Istanbul and its surroundings, something very rare and attractive. Jackie's castmates are well chosen, also, with two beautiful women gracing the screen for the viewers' vast enjoyment. If you love Chan movies, don't miss this one. Although it may not be his best work, it still has plenty of humor and action to keep the audience watching until the credits start to roll.

The latest Hong Kong action film by Jackie Chan has been taking a bit of a drubbing from a few outspoken, hardcore fans and critics.

And, as far as I'm concerned, it is all totally unwarrented. This is the best Jackie film in recent years--perhaps even the best in a decade!

Some criticize it for not having enough action or enough of Jackie's trademark fight choreography. Well, all you need is a stopwatch to see this is not true. Every few minutes brings a big action setpiece! There is much more action in this film than in "Supercop", "First Strike" or "Rush Hour". And certianly more than his foray into screwball romantic comedy, "Gorgeous". What critics are reacting to is a marked improvement in the quality of the filmmaking--which they see as getting in the way. This film has none of the drawbacks of Jackie's last all-action HK movie, "Who Am I?". In "AS", the cinematography, direction, musical score, and overall look is easily on a par with a Hollywood production. And even though the dialog is a bit under the best of Hollywood action films, "AS" contains none of the embarrasing, out-of-place comic sterotypes, horrible second-player acting, or lazy dialog-writing of "WAI?". So, the characters actually do stop to have dialog evey once in a while, the camera does slow down to establish the location from time to time, so the locations are lushly photographed--gee whiz, aren't those things supposed to happen in a good movie? Teddy Chan is the best director jackie has collaborated with (Sammo Hung and Stanley Tong run close second and third and perhaps could have done as well given the same budget as "AS").

And, by the way, we cannot expect JAckie to do the physical stunts he did in his best 80s films like "Operation Condor", "Police Story 1&2" or "Project A 1&2". There is a difference between 30 and 45---face it!

Sure, the plot of "AS" is off-the-wall, implausible, and at times difficult to follow--but certainly not moreso than Hollywood action/spy hits like "Ronin" or the "Mission Impossible" films (in fact, "AS" makes much better use of biological warefare than "MI2" did).

Some also criticise the film's big finale as derivative of "Speed". Well, in a way it is--except this time it was done better and makes more sense. "Speed" never seemed dangerous to me--this does. Clint Eastwood's "Sudden Impact" ripped off Jackie's "Police Story 2" by using the idea of a mad bomber using a model car rigged with explosives. It happens.

IN any case, I believe "The Accidental Spy", once properly dubbed into English, could be a big hit in US theaters. Hey, no one thought "Rumble in the Bronx" would be a hit, did they?

This is just an example of what high expectations people have of an artist as succesful as Jackie Chan.

A welcome and amiable screen presence, Jackie Chan can be depended upon for clever stunts, fast action, and solid entertainment. But even the best performers have off days, and "The Accidental Spy" is not Jackie's finest hour, despite some dexterous maneuvers and funny moments. Jackie is a gym-equipment salesman, who may be the son of a dying Korean man; when he passes, the Korean leaves Jackie a legacy that sends him to Istanbul, where he becomes involved with drug dealers in pursuit of a highly-addictive super drug.

The meandering script by Rod Dean and Ivy Ho is short on logic and long on mindless action. Rod Dean is credited with the English version, and his dialog lags the lip movements of the Chinese cast by several seconds, which is initially amusing, but eventually annoying. However, the script is of secondary importance, because director Teddy Chan's focus is on action action action. Evidently film editor Chi-Leung Kwong had a good work out assembling the fast-moving footage into a frenetic semblance of continuity. Fortunately, Kwong had some good footage to work with, because Wing Hang Wong's cinematography is particularly good and showcases the beauty of Istanbul.

However, the film belongs to Jackie Chan, and avid fans of the star likely enjoy whatever he does. Jackie is always fun to watch, even in the most preposterous situations, and an extended chase sequence through the Istanbul Bazaar that features the bad guys pursuing a naked Jackie is arguably the film's highlight. Chan's deft play with plates, tambourines, and baskets to cover himself is priceless. Once outside the Bazaar, his slickly nimble maneuver with a hanging bed sheet is worth repeated looks; he somehow pulls on the sheet, tears a hole for his head, wraps himself head to foot, and quickly transforms himself into a veiled woman. If the entire film were as inspired as these moments, which rank with the finest silent-film slapstick, "The Accidental Spy" would be a classic.

Unfortunately, most of the film is non-stop action, with extended chases, impossible stunts, and fiery explosions, but little reason or logic behind any of them. Watchable for its amiable star and his riotous antics in the Istanbul Bazaar, the rest of "The Accidental Spy" is not worthy of its talented lead.

Review: This movie sees Chan, Buck Yuen, play an over enthusiastic salesman who struggles to get sales in a fitness store and is constantly pushed around by his boss. Whilst going out for lunch in the shopping complex were he works, he witnesses a robbery and all of a sudden, he becomes an action hero by recovering the money from the robbers and getting the culprits captured by the police. His name is then plastered all of over the media and he is tracked down by a private investigator who is looking for a rich man son whose last wish, on his death bed, is to reunite with him. After his father passes away, he is left with these random clues which point to a lot of money and a priceless formula for liquid opium. He then follows the clues which lead him to Turkey but he is hunted down by various spies who also want the priceless formula. With the help of undercover agents, he tackles through the various hit men that want to kill him for the formula and, as usual, he manages the stop the baddies and saves the day. I liked the first half of this movie because you get to see a normal side to Chan, without all of the superhero abilities but when he switches to a Bond type character, it just ends up to be your everyday action movie which we have seen Chan star in, many times before. Half of the time, he did look a bit dazed and confused through the film and it really amazed me how he had the ability to fight off the baddies after being such an average salesman in a shop. Anyway, there are some good stunts throughout the film and Chan really does push the action to the limit by running through a market naked whilst fighting off the baddies. The showdown at the end was quite impressive but when I found out that the whole film was based around a agent who wanted to catch the top dog, it all seemed a bit pointless. Anyway, it's worth a watch just to see the action scenes and a everyday Chan but it's nothing that we haven't seen before. Watchable!

Round-Up: This movie was directed by Teddy Chan whose known for the 2014 movie, Kung Fu Killer starring Donnie Yen. This is the first movie that he has made with Chan and you can see that he didn't really give this movie his all by the way that he is acting throughout the film. After watching some of the movies that Chan has directed himself, like the Police Story franchise, I really did notice a difference between the two movies and the glum look on Chans face proves that he doesn't like to be directed by people who he hasn't worked with before. Don't get me wrong, he does show some true emotion through the film and the attention to detail in the action scenes were spot on but he just seemed a bit distant throughout the film. Chan was 48 when this movie was released and he still was able to pull of those amazing stunts with ease. You wouldn't believe that he was pushing towards 50 whilst watching it. Now at 61 there's no sign of him slowing down and with another Rush Hour and Karate Kid in the pipeline along with the recent release of Dragon Blade with John Cusack and Adrien Brody, he really is a true action hero.

I recommend this movie to people who are into their action/thriller/martial arts/comedies starring Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang. Vivian Hsu and Min Kim. 4/10

"Buck Yuen" (Jackie Chan) is an employee of a small exercise equipment shop in Hong Kong. One day he happens to see some suspicious people nearby and follows them. When they attempt to rob a jewelry store he springs into action and this gets his picture in the news. Then, as luck would have it, this attracts a private investigator to discern if he is possibly the heir to a client of his who just happens to be involved in drugs and espionage. Now rather than reveal any more of this rather complicated plot I will just say that, as usual with movies involving Jackie Chan, this film had more than its fair share of martial arts action. It also had some pretty good comedy too. Unfortunately, as I stated earlier, the plot was somewhat complex and the movie itself seemed heavily edited which certainly didn't help the overall cohesiveness of the film. Additionally, the sound quality wasn't very good either. In short, although this was an enjoyable movie for the most part it definitely had some flaws and for that reason I rate it as only average.

I remember there being a lot of 'hush' when this show was in production, which made me all the more concerned as to what the outcome was going to be like.

And when I finally got it on DVD, I have to say the outcome… was worth the wait.

The Accidental Spy is quite different from the usual Jackie Chan vehicle, and as his number one fan (aren't we all?) I get a tad concerned when one of these 'different vehicles' is on the way.

I blame Stanley Tong!

His attempt to make Jackie's movies look more 'Hollywood-like' seemed to also include the loss of the infamous end battle which we all live for in a HK movie. And this seems to have carried over to this movie – not directed by Tong, but by Teddy Chen (Purple Storm, Downtown Torpedoes).

Once again, the idea of a non-fighting, yet action-packed ending seems to have been the choice of the day for what could have been, another Chan classic.

It's not all bad… But instead of a fantastic end fight, we get to see our hero try and control a speeding oil tanker down busy roads, through people filled streets, and, oh yeah – it's ass is also on fire. This means that if that truck slows down, the flames will move forward and light the oil.

Sounds exciting? Well, I guess it is. But enough negativity, let's focus on the good stuff this Chan flick has to offer!

Well I guess we should start with the man himself… Jackie has played most and all characters on screen over the last 30 years, so it's strange, but nice, to see him play – a sports store sales assistant.

Yes… that's right. In a nice introductory scene, we get to see him try and flog some gym equipment to a rich man and his wife (which doesn't work too well) before he heads out to lunch and gets caught up in a major bank robbery. And this is where the fun starts!

After a tight fight in an elevator, Jackie takes a ride on a runaway crane, smashing through office blocks before being deemed a hero by national television and newspapers. Quite a fun little opening I must add, and then things start to turn a little darker.

This is were fans of the usual Jackie Chan fare got divided.

Low on laughs, slow on action, but there's still something in it that makes me go back to watch it again and again. This is one you need to see to decide for yourself…

Avoid the American release at all costs!

*Spawned a TV series in China without JC...

Jackie Chan stars as a rather dweeby exercise equipment salesman drawn into a complicated web involving spies, the CIA, some sort of dangerous substance, a pretty girl, money, and a bunch of people trying to kill him (as always). The action scenes deliver, but there aren't enough of them. The film is also noticeably lacking in humour, an important ingredient in all of Chan's films. Everyone is so serious. All in all, this movie fails to live up to some of the better of Jackie's films, and comes off just average.

I have been watching Jackie chan's film since I was small. Well I must admit that his shows are rather interesting, coupled with great and well choreographed fighting scenes. But this latest offering from Jackie is rather dull, with little action scene and hardly any humour in it. The only part which is interesting and funny is the part when he's naked and running around, fighting the bad guys. This film is way below the average Jackie Chan's film and being the most expensive film made in Hong Kong, it certainly fails to live up to its expectation.

Not recommended by me but I'm sure there are diehard fans out there who will still watch this show.

4 out of 10.

Jackie Chan is one of my favorite action stars and The Accidental Spy is not one of my favorite movies he's done. In fact, it's pretty low down the list. The story is that Jackie's father was a spy and left him an opium serum that everyone is after so Jackie's playing a little game to discover it. Along the way he fights bad guys in a couple of decent action scenes (the only good one in this movie has Jackie running naked through the streets of Istanbul), all leading to a half-assed, pointless conclusion where he's saving a family in a tanker truck about to explode. Rather than stop the truck and let everyone out while having the police tailing the truck quarantine the area, he instead decides to keep driving it until it flies off a bridge.

Not recommended.

This review is on the "dubbed" Dimension Film release.

Buck (Jackie) is a sales person at a Hong Kong exercise equipment store. One day he meets Many (Eric Tsang) who tells him that he's a private investigator assigned to tell him that his real father is Korean and he has inheritance. So Buck flies to Korea to meet the attorney who has his father's will. Buck's left with a rosary, key, and ashes of his father he's requested to spread across his wife's grave. On the grave he sees a message saying "wait for me". This turns out to be a code for telephone number of a bank in Istanbul. He goes to Istanbul, and receives personal vault full of money. He's then attacked by numerous people in Istanbul. Then suddenly he meets CIA agent. She tells him that his father was involved with prototype high potency opium. More attack on him ensues, but Buck escapes to the seas where he gets picked up by Lee the gang who's after the money and the opium. He finally track down the opium, but the trouble is still coming.

The plot is difficult to understand, and since I haven't seen the Hong Kong release of this film, I'm not sure if it's because of the editing or not. The scene jumps from Jacki's work as a sales person in Hong Kong, to Korea, to Istanbul. The clues he uses to follow the bread crumb seems too "accidental". I doubt anyone could have followed a lead that vague. Maybe this is the most "accidental" part of Accidental Spy, because if he didn't get the clue, he probably never would have been involved in any of the troubles. The plot goes on in this manner for the entire movie up to the point where he picks up the opium.

There's nothing wrong with the movie. I just hated to see an average nice guy like Buck get into all the troubles and get beat up the way he did. The movie was senseless in this way, and because of that, the plot was not as good as it could have been. But again, this might have been because of the edit.

Different kind of movie for Jackie Chan. If the plot wasn't so convoluted and unbelievable, it would have been even better.

Buck (Jackie Chan) is a salesman with dreams of an adventurous life who hits the jackpot when discovers that he may be the long-lost son of a wealthy businessman. But this new father could be an infamous espionage agent who, on his deathbed, made Buck the key figure in locating an elusive drug. With shady characters on their trail, Buck and lovely journalist Carmen (Kim Min-Jeong) must find the drug before it falls into the wrong hands.

This movie has a good plot and action. Jackie does again his amazing stunts and gets butt-naked! Ha! Ha! Truly funny while fighting his enemies. Interestingly, beautiful and gorgeous women accompanies him in this drama and action flick. It will surely entertain your day for a Jackie starred film.

I recommend you to watch this movie. You will not regret it!

I didn't expect too much from this movie but I was really thunderstruck. It's maybe the greatest Hong Kong movie since Who Am I (and I think it's even a bit better). The plot is quite elaborate and interesting and we can expect really good acting. The movie is more aimed at acting and drama than at action. This can be disappointing for some hardcore action fans but I see it as a good step. Jackie was almost fifty when filming this movie and I don't think he wants to kick baddies' heads till the end of his very long career. The movie is quite serious and emotional, so the funny moments (there are a few) are in my opinion out of place and don't fit in the dark plot very much. They are really FUNNY (f.e. the naked fight in the market place) and they would be great in any other Jackie's movie, but not in this one. There are about four or five fight scenes in this film, quite short, but absolutely great- especially the one in the spa-place. The only scene that felt to me quite unnecessary was the final rescue-from-truck part - it looks like an extract from the worst American B-movies. But in general this movie is one of the greatest in Jackie's career.

This is definitely one of the best of the Chinese line of Jackie's work. Right up there with Operation Condor & Operation Condor 2. If you liked either of these films, you will enjoy this one. Although it's dubbed, and he says his name is "Jackie Chan" rather than the name of the character a couple of times, this is a surprisingly decent action film. In comparison to his older work with the bad sound effects, bad visual effects, horrible dialog, and totally unbelievable story line, this is top row.

This is an excellent vehicle in which Jackie really shows his dramatic abilities. He has grown so much in his talent as an actor, and I for one, really enjoyed this effort.

I highly recommend it, even if you are only a casual fan of his work.

It rates a 7.8/10 from...

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