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Jackie Chan's Best Movie?



Lindsey Montgomery

I think that this movie is quite possibally Jacki Chan's best film. I'ts a great comedy, with great actors and actresses. You can just tell that the actors had a great time filming this movie because there is so much on-screen chemestry between everyone. What do you guys think?

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It was good, but I'll take Supercop (Police Story 4 I think) over any of them.









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Lindsey Montgomery

Really? I liked Supercop, but I didn't think it was his best work. What to you think his worst movie was; I would have to say Accidental Spy.

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No, I like Police story 1 & 2 and Project A 1 and 2 the most, and also the Rush Hour movies. By the way, Supercop is the third Police Story movie, the forth is First Strike. Anyway, I don't count Supercop and First Strike as Police Story movies, since it's like impossible to find them in the original language and it just sounds really weird when they call him Kevin, when his name was Ka-kui in 1 and 2. Also, it's not the same feeling in 3 and 4, they even moved from Hong Kong, which takes away a lot of the feeling. But that's just my opinion. It would have been great to watch the original versions, it may change my opinion just a bit.

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Lindsey Montgomery

You're kidding right? Shanghai noon is the best movie he ever made.

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I think it was possibly his best Hollywood movie.

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Lindsey Montgomery

Yup. I agree completely.

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Drunken Master.

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I'd Have to say Jackie Chan's Who Am I? Was Pretty damn cool. I haven't seen a lot of his other stuff in a long time

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In terms of Jackie Chan's best fight scene? I'd go w/ Jackie Chan's Who Am I? In terms of plot an' stuff, Rush Hour 1-2 & Shanghai Noon/Knights

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>I think it was possibly his best Hollywood movie.

and I'l second that! Around the world worked well too in my opinion.

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I liked the Rush Hour movies. This and "Knights" were boring.

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I think this is Chan's most amusing film. I really liked it, despite having to watch it with my new annoying housemate who was trying to clean around me.

It is effortlessly funny, visually engaging, and a very easy film to watch. It is what I would describe as a Sunday afternoon film when you've nothing in particular to do, and you just want to watch something inoffensive and shallow to relax while your lunch goes down. You may not get to do this if a new annoying housemate decides it is time to clean your house.

Jackie Chan works well with Owen Wilson and both seem to be egging each other on to further acts of slapstick and humour. They have an easy friendship. I suspect perhaps Owen Wilson hasn't scrubbed Jackie chan's TV 'because it was dirty' It's a TV! if its dirty, don't lick it!

So in summary, a good film well enjoyed. The atmosphere of the wild west is well captured and the film romps along with no thought required. No-one sympathises that my new housemate keeps cleaning everything. It may sound like a good thing, but its really annoying! I'm not that dirty!

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Shanghai Noon was just an ok movie, the jokes were so ordinary, things you saw or heard before (the 'John Wayne' name joke like 'Clint Eastwood' in Back to the Future III, except less funny, or the Indians who have a cool slang, like in Maverick, less funny once again), but Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were fine, they make a nice pair.

It's not Jacky's best though, definitely, absolutely not. Like some others said, it's maybe his best Hollywood movie, mostly because it's his less B movie, and that's it. His chinese movies were better, especially from the 80's, the ones with Samo Hung and his gang of weirdos (My Lucky Stars 1 & 2). There was also that one, don't remember the English title, where I come from it was called The Sailor from the Southern Seas.

Anyway, I'm impressed you saw all his 90 movies or so, coz, of course, you wouldn't say it's his best if you hadn't, would you ? :)

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Drunken Master II is by far my favourite movie from him...!

I came, I saw, I kicked some ass.

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I would agree that Drunken Master 2 is better than the original, but I wouldn't count it as his best film. I really, truly love Police Story 2 (the first is great as well, but for some reason I prefer watching the sequal). Shanghai Noon was a good Hollywood movie. Some parts were a little odd, but worked well as comedy. I think the first Drunken Master film is over-rated due to the slow, dance-like pace of the fights. It's got some incredible scenes and a decent story with some funny stuff, but too much of the fighting looks unrealistically slow. I liked the fighting much better in The Young Master. That was a fantastic early Jackie Chan flick.

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rush hour 1/2 and police story are all great

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His best film, which he directed as well, is Police Story (IMO). If you havn't seen it, get a copy today!

Also up there as his best work is Project A, Miracles, Armour of God, Drunken Master II and New Police Story. I also Like Snake in the Eagles Shadow, but I don't think it counts as a great film.

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I couldn't enjoy this movie the first time I saw it, as I'd already seen most of it before, with Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder in The Frisco Kid (1979). Quite a bit of the plot and concept (indeed, entire scenes!) were lifted from 'Frisco', but with no credited acknowledgement to the original film. For that, I was a bit offended, but if I look at it as a movie on it's own, I admit that the pairing of Chan and Wilson makes this work. My personal favourites are Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2, but I haven't seen a lot of his earlier films yet.

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I have never seen The Frisco Kid, but I'm sure that you're right. Personally I agree that there should have been some sort of acknowledgment toward the film, but still, I enjoyed it greatly. The films Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2 were good also, although the latter wasn't quite as good as the first. I've seen alot of his early work, many of which were quite good. Unfortunately, however, I found that most of them lacked the comedy that Chan shows in his more recent films.


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