Martial Arts Movies

Sit back, relax and get prepared to be dumbfounded. Please…allow me to explain. What if I told you that Jackie Chan made a Kung Fu Movie that combined these stunning plot elements: Crazed Amazons. Ghosts who cheat at cards. Bouncing vampires. Japanese Nazis who attack riding atop 1970s clunker cars. Burlesque musical numbers. Abraham Lincoln as a World War II general. Gratuitous violence. Chinese guys dressed in kilts and Elvis jumpsuits, and, er, Jacky Chan and his pet chicken.
Yes this movie has it all. So…sit back, don’t try to think to much, smoke a fatty, crack open a beer and let this movie warp your sensibilities. DO NOT try to figure out what this movie is about. PLEASE. Viewing this film through the veil of contemplation will only BRING YOU PAIN. Trust me. This Film is for the select few who have the uncanny ability to appreciate the weird, the offbeat, the senseless and obscene. To those few: This just may be the GREATEST Kung Fu Movie ever made.

The Young Master

Kung Fu Fighting
Jackie Chan had already established himself in Hong Kong as a major box office star with 1978’s Drunken Master and 1979’s Fearless Hyena, but he was not getting his fiscal due from Lo Wei Productions, so he opted out of his contract with Lo Wei and was hired by Golden Harvest. The Young [...]

Meals on Wheels

Kung Fu Movies
Filmed in beautiful Barcelona, Spain, the story centers around cousins Thomas (Jackie Chan) and David (Yuen Biao) who run a fast food van. The food is delivered by Thomas, who rushes around the busy downtown square on a skateboard. After a melee involving a biker gang, they meet the beautiful pickpocket Sylvia (Lola [...]

Rumble in Hong Kong

Kung Fu Movies
Let me be frank: This is not a great Jackie Chan film. This is not even a good Jackie Chan film. Although he portrays a bad guy, which is rare, and sports an odd looking mole on his face, this is no career defining moment. Considering my own personal cinematic proclivities, seeing Jackie [...]

Fearless Hyena

Kung Fu Movies
As far as plots go, Jackie Chan’s Fearless Hyena is nothing special. Here, Chan plays yet another country bumpkin whose venerable master gets killed by a dastardly villain. This, of course, leaves Chan no other option but to train under a new master to avenge his teacher’s death and vanquish all evildoers by [...]

Ten Fingers of Death

Kung Fu Movies
Also known as “Master with Cracked Fingers”; Jackie Chan plays the main character whose father dies early on after disobeying the rules of his clan because of not killing “innocent people”. Young Jackie was intrigued by the martial arts from an early age, but his father had strictly forbid its practice. One day, [...]

36 Crazy Fists

Kung Fu Movies
This is one of the better early Jackie Chan films, when Jackie had finally started to come into his own. Too often, in many of Jackie’s first films, he was relegated to the role of “country bumpkin” and his talents were often overshadowed by poor production qualities and lesser talented players. Here the [...]

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