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The Legend of Drunken Master
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Final Verdict: [Meh...]
The Legend of Drunken Master
Martial Arts Action / Chinese / 1994
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Arguably contending most heavily with the Police Story series, Jackie Chan's Drunken Master 1 & 2 (known as The Legend of Drunken Master) is one of the most popular martial arts movies out there.
What do I think? Well...
There's that whole movie part... and it just keeps getting in the way!
Save an early fight scene which is neat if not for the horrifically rubbery weapons, it takes about half of the movies runtime for us to final get some serious fighting, let alone drunken boxing.
The center of the movie suffers from an extraordinarily drawn out scene in which Chan's character, Fei-Hong is uselessly drunk, his mother lies incessantly to his father, and his father goes on a tirade over their drunkeness and lies. It goes on FOREVER even playing into an unfunny joke about her feigning pregnancy to get avoid getting hit ( ( o_O).
My general gripe with the movie is just the whole drunken boxing aspect. It means that Chan's supposed to act drunk and what that means is a whole lot of overracting which is partly funny, but mostly annoying.
Once the "get out of my house" scene plays out it's mostly fight scenes with the local smugglers till the end of the movie. The Axe Gang fight and the final showdown with "John" (Ken Lo) in the mine are particular highlights.
The Axe Gang fight features the iconic moment in which Jackie fends off numerous armed opponents with a split bamboo chute and altogether just utterly destroys a house. Character, Fu Wen Chi also dies like a cartoon at the end of it.
Jackie Chan vs. Ken Lo, one about the wicked kicks and the other about the drunken boxing is undoubtedly a scene to behold especially when Jackie boozes up on... something he shouldn't be drinking and goes ****ing ******* on the dude. You kinda feel sorry for the bad guy by the end of it, he never really had a chance.
If nothing else watch those clips on Youtube or something, in fact, Here. You. Go:
What do I think? Well...
There's that whole movie part... and it just keeps getting in the way!
Save an early fight scene which is neat if not for the horrifically rubbery weapons, it takes about half of the movies runtime for us to final get some serious fighting, let alone drunken boxing.
The center of the movie suffers from an extraordinarily drawn out scene in which Chan's character, Fei-Hong is uselessly drunk, his mother lies incessantly to his father, and his father goes on a tirade over their drunkeness and lies. It goes on FOREVER even playing into an unfunny joke about her feigning pregnancy to get avoid getting hit ( ( o_O).
My general gripe with the movie is just the whole drunken boxing aspect. It means that Chan's supposed to act drunk and what that means is a whole lot of overracting which is partly funny, but mostly annoying.
Once the "get out of my house" scene plays out it's mostly fight scenes with the local smugglers till the end of the movie. The Axe Gang fight and the final showdown with "John" (Ken Lo) in the mine are particular highlights.
The Axe Gang fight features the iconic moment in which Jackie fends off numerous armed opponents with a split bamboo chute and altogether just utterly destroys a house. Character, Fu Wen Chi also dies like a cartoon at the end of it.
Jackie Chan vs. Ken Lo, one about the wicked kicks and the other about the drunken boxing is undoubtedly a scene to behold especially when Jackie boozes up on... something he shouldn't be drinking and goes ****ing ******* on the dude. You kinda feel sorry for the bad guy by the end of it, he never really had a chance.
If nothing else watch those clips on Youtube or something, in fact, Here. You. Go:
The rest of the movie's just boring. And it loses big points from me for Chickens, Ducks, Pheasants, SomeOtherBirds, Yak, Horses, Snakes, and even a fish getting butchered. FuuuuUUUUUUuuuuUUUUUUck off.