Comments on: Jackie Chan, meet John Woo. Supercop.

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:31:39 +0000

I would have liked Who Am I? more if it didn’t have practically the exact same premise as Once Upon A Time In China And America.

By: thebonebreaker

thebonebreaker — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:24:10 +0000

Nice write-up Bryan!

While I too love Drunken Master 2, my personal Chan favorite is Who Am I?

By: Jeremy Couturier

Jeremy Couturier — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:33:15 +0000

I wonder if that means we’ll get the edited version of Drunken Master 2 without the scenes of a brain damaged Jackie Chan at the end of the movie?

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:00:30 +0000

Ah shit. I need to go back and revise that. Thomas is right. A little more research on the title reveals that the running time is 91 minutes, the same as the Dimension release. Sorry, gang.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:53:16 +0000

Is it uncut? I’ve read that it’s the same cut version from the old Dimension release.

By: Jeremy Couturier

Jeremy Couturier — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:57:54 +0000

Very much like your own experience, I became enamored with Hong Kong filmaking back in the early to mid 90s. The shear volume of films released was staggering and surprisingly the quality of a good portion of the films were right up there.
I am also a huge Jackie Chan fan, his everyman persona and comic sensibilty are something on the level of Chaplin and Keaton (not Mikey but Buster:)). Also this guy has HUGE cajones to even attempt the stunts in his films, not to mention the serious life threatening injuries he has piled up throughout the years. Chan was wise enough to distance himself from the hard edged persona of Bruce Lee and establish himself as really THE martial arts icon of the last 20 plus years. As he presses on into his 50s and seems to be winding down its great that Dragon Dynasty is releasing films like Supercop in the manner which its deserves. Also as you pointed out so well Michelle Yeoh held her own with Chan and I think any real martial arts fan should check out her work as well, this is one tough pretty woman! Go rent Tai Chi Master with Jet Li or Wing Chun to see Yeoh in her prime (even Oliver Stone was stalking her for a while!) Drunken Master 2, which I still have my bootleg of, is a great choice for this series.
If there was a Mount Rushmore of kung fu flix I picture Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Sonny Chiba on full display. It was fitting that Chan had a cameo in Tony Jaa’s The Defender, bumping into each other at the airport. I hope Tony lives up to his potential! Sorry for the rambling but Bey Logan has a great book out entitled Hong Kong Action Cinema although its from 1995 so its somewhat limited.