New Fist of Fury
Starring:Jackie Chan, Sing Chang, Siu Siu Cheng, Yin-Chieh Han, Nora Miao, Yim Chan Tang
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
This early film of Jackie Chan's was meant to shepherd him into the '70s kung fu genre pantheon made internationally popular by Bruce Lee. Indirectly it did, but probably more out of positioning than performance. Chan was to assume Lee's position as kung fu superstar, made evident by his role in New Fist of Fury (1976), the somewhat clunky chop-socky sequel to The Chinese Connection (on which Chan had worked as a stunt man). Directed by Wei Lo, New Fist of Fury picks up with two siblings fleeing a Japanese-occupied Shanghai for Taiwan, where their grandfather runs a Kung Fu school. However, a Japanese martial arts teacher has plans to run all the schools under his own name, eventually killing the grandfather. Chan plays a young thief who, at first, wants nothing to do with fighting but then finds his calling as the new leader of rebels against the Japanese occupation. Chan of course is no Bruce Lee (although during one dramatic sequence, a still of Lee is cut into the frame to "remind" viewers of the filmmakers' intentions) but New Fist of Fury marks Chan's first entry as a leading actor in Hong Kong action films. --Shannon Gee
Average customer rating:
- Comeback movie (well first comeback) for Jackie
- bad
- Why it wasnt very good
- Horrible
- Ouch
|
New Fist of Fury
Starring: Jackie Chan , Sing Chang , Siu Siu Cheng , Yin-Chieh Han , and Nora Miao
Manufacturer: Beverly Wilshire
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
 General
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Martial Arts
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Hong Kong Action
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Jackie Chan
| Action Stars
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Action & Combat
| Military & War
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
World War II
| Military & War
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Hong Kong
| By Country
| Art House & International
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Chan, Jackie
| ( C )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Miao, Nora
| ( M )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Hong Kong
| Asian Cinema
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Martial Arts
| By Genre
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Military & War
| By Theme
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
( N )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
Martial Arts
| Action & Adventure
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
Action & Combat
| Military & War
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
World War II
| Military & War
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
All Deals
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
Similar Items:
- My Lucky Stars
- The Hand of Death
- Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
- Magnificent Bodyguards
- The 36 Crazy Fists
ASIN: B00005AWQT
Release Date: 2001-03-06 |
Amazon.com
This early film of Jackie Chan's was meant to shepherd him into the '70s kung fu genre pantheon made internationally popular by Bruce Lee. Indirectly it did, but probably more out of positioning than performance. Chan was to assume Lee's position as kung fu superstar, made evident by his role in New Fist of Fury (1976), the somewhat clunky chop-socky sequel to The Chinese Connection (on which Chan had worked as a stunt man). Directed by Wei Lo, New Fist of Fury picks up with two siblings fleeing a Japanese-occupied Shanghai for Taiwan, where their grandfather runs a Kung Fu school. However, a Japanese martial arts teacher has plans to run all the schools under his own name, eventually killing the grandfather. Chan plays a young thief who, at first, wants nothing to do with fighting but then finds his calling as the new leader of rebels against the Japanese occupation. Chan of course is no Bruce Lee (although during one dramatic sequence, a still of Lee is cut into the frame to "remind" viewers of the filmmakers' intentions) but New Fist of Fury marks Chan's first entry as a leading actor in Hong Kong action films. --Shannon Gee
Customer Reviews:
Comeback movie (well first comeback) for Jackie.......2006-07-20
After co-starring in Hand of Death, Jackie Chan was forced into an early retirement because of the shift in consumer tastes in movies. The Hong Kong audience was dissatisfied with the action films after the death of Bruce Lee, leaving an ever-widening amount of unemployed stunt-men and bit-players. Since Jackie was one of these casualties he retired to Australia to be with his family. There he did construction in the day and worked in a Chinese restaurant at night. Then he received a telegram from Willie Chan wanting him to work in a new film called New Fist of Fury - a sequel to the beloved Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury. He told him that the movie would be for the newly formed Lo Wei Productions and that the film would be directed by Lo Wei himself. Jackie would receive 3000 Dollars (HK) per month for acting (he would later receive 9000 for being the stunt coordinator.) Little did anyone know that this unknown actor would become a big boon to the industry; though, this would not happen for a while and would not happen (directly) because of this film.
New Fist of Fury is typical of a Lo Wei film, it lacks cohesion and character with an overuse of plot elements. The film starts after the destruction of the Ching Wu School in Shanghai. The remnants of the school, led by the delightful Miss Lee (Nora Miao), are forced to flee to Taiwan to avoid persecution from the Japanese. She will stay with her grandfather Su Onli who is the head of a martial arts school. Unfortunately, the Japanese are ubiquitous in Taiwan too. When her group arrives, they are the target of a thief Helong (Jackie Chan) and his companion Old Chin (Hon Siu). Helong (Ah Lung in some translations) steals a wooden box containing the prize weapon of the late Brother Chen (Bruce Lee in the superior Fist of Fury) - nun-chucks.
Later, after Helong is found in a ditch beaten half-to-death by the students of Chin Ching Kai, he is found by Miss Lee's group and is nursed back to health (with the help of his prostitute mother's money, whom he does not know.) For all of this help and their forgiveness of him stealing their property, he refuses to learn Kung Fu so he can continuously be beaten up. Miss Lee has bigger problems than trying to get Helong to learn Kung Fu - the Japanese occupancy.
Akumora (played by the muscular Chan Sing) is the Japanese provincial leader who wants to combine the Chinese martial art schools under his Di Wah school. There is a great scene with him catching a knife in his teeth and then throwing it from his mouth killing an attacker. It is so hard to take this scene seriously, but it reminded me what Ed Wood might have done if he directed a Kung Fu film. Akumora is an interesting character that starts off semi-decent and then ends up completely anti-Chinese ("I kill Chinese, just like I kill dogs.") This is another annoyance with the film; it is completely ethnocentric with one-dimensional Japanese characters. This annoyance is especially evident when Akumora challenges a staged Kwong Gung, stating that the Japanese heroes are much better than Chinese's heroes. This infuriates Master Su during his 80th birthday celebration and leads to his death (when he jumps over a large crowd of people and apparently has a heart attack.) With the death of Master Su, Miss Lee decides to revive the Ching Wu School. This leads to an obvious clash with the Di Wah School.
One of the biggest problems with this film (yes even worse than the ever-yelling Jen Da So, the kiai spewing daughter of Akumora) is that Jackie is misused and miscast in this film. He constantly gets beat up by both Japanese and Chinese and yet refuses to learn Kung Fu. He does not get a decent fight scene until at least three-fourths of the film is over and yet he obtained his skills in just a few days (it is amazing what anti-Japanese sentiment can make you accomplish). When he does fight, his skills are quite evident. Jackie is very acrobatic and his fight scenes flow well though he is relegated to using actors who are weak in martial arts (with a few exceptions like Han Ying Chieh) and they slow down many of the action scenes.
I am a fan of Jackie Chan (and many of the HK films of this era), but this is not a film that rises above mediocrity. While it is not worse than many films during the 70's it has a few negative attributes that will doggedly follow it -- New Fist of Fury followed one of the most beloved of Bruce Lee films with a weak sequel and misused a future Hong Kong Superstar. Useless Tidbit: look for a small cameo role for Lo Wei where he portrays an inspector.
bad.......2006-05-22
jackie chan misses (he rarly does bad im sad to say he did)
didnt like it at all. not jackie chan style at all. bad fight scenes
Why it wasnt very good.......2005-12-13
As the reviewers below me have said, jackie is supposed to play bruce lee's brother in this movie. After Bruce Lee died director Lo Wei tried to turn Jackie into bruces replancement, hence why they made a sequel to the classic Fist of Fury (the chinese connection) I have read Jackies autobiography I AM JACKIE CHAN: MY LIFE IN ACTION and he stresses how much he hated being called "the next bruce lee". He didnt want to play a serious and fearless character like bruce lee's was. On the bright side this film allowed for him to become what he is today. In my opinion if you want to see a Bruce Lee style kung fu movie (aka a fearless hero who is an undefeated fighter), see the orignal Fist of Fury (called The Chinese Connection in america) and if you want to see a Jackie Chan kung fu/comedy movie (his characters are usually trouble makers that dont want to fight) i would recommend both the drunken master movies and snake in eagles shadow.
Horrible.......2004-12-30
"New Fist of Fury" was one of Jackie Chan's first movies, made before he discovered the comedy/kung fu combination that put him on the map. Being a sequel to Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury" (aka "The Chinese COnnection), it's Jackie's only full-blown 'Bruceploitation' movie. The story involves a young wise guy who decides to help Bruce Lee's Ching Wu school in the face of the evil Japanese army. This is without a doubt the worst Jackie Chan movie I've ever seen. The dull, slow-paced plot stretches for two hours, with nary a fight scene in the first half. In addition, it contains just about the worst rip-off ending in the history of cinema.
The DVD from Beverly Wilshire Filmworks is nothing short of abomindable. The transfer used appears to be from an eighth or ninth generation VHS tape, which is murky and washed out and nearly impossible to watch in the darker scenes. There are black bars at the top and bottom of the screen to give the illusion of widescreen, but it's obvious the company just slapped bars on a pan and scan print. Worst of all, there is no menu and no chapter links. Easily the worst DVD I have ever seen.
Ouch.......2003-01-07
Chan spends a long time getting his own rear end handed to him before getting shot like a little punk. Souds like a good flick, eh?
Average customer rating:
- Comeback movie (well first comeback) for Jackie
- bad
- Why it wasnt very good
- Horrible
- Ouch
|
New Fist of Fury
Starring: Jackie Chan , Sing Chang , Siu Siu Cheng , Yin-Chieh Han , and Nora Miao
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Martial Arts
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Hong Kong Action
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Jackie Chan
| Action Stars
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Action & Combat
| Military & War
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
World War II
| Military & War
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Hong Kong
| By Country
| Art House & International
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Chan, Jackie
| ( C )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Miao, Nora
| ( M )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
All Sony Pictures Titles
| Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
| Studio Specials
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Martial Arts
| Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
| Studio Specials
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Hong Kong
| Asian Cinema
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Martial Arts
| By Genre
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Military & War
| By Theme
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
DVDs Under $7.49
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
( N )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
Similar Items:
- My Lucky Stars
- The Hand of Death
- Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
- Magnificent Bodyguards
- The 36 Crazy Fists
ASIN: B00005V4XJ
Release Date: 2002-03-12 |
Amazon.com
This early film of Jackie Chan's was meant to shepherd him into the '70s kung fu genre pantheon made internationally popular by Bruce Lee. Indirectly it did, but probably more out of positioning than performance. Chan was to assume Lee's position as kung fu superstar, made evident by his role in New Fist of Fury (1976), the somewhat clunky chop-socky sequel to The Chinese Connection (on which Chan had worked as a stunt man). Directed by Wei Lo, New Fist of Fury picks up with two siblings fleeing a Japanese-occupied Shanghai for Taiwan, where their grandfather runs a Kung Fu school. However, a Japanese martial arts teacher has plans to run all the schools under his own name, eventually killing the grandfather. Chan plays a young thief who, at first, wants nothing to do with fighting but then finds his calling as the new leader of rebels against the Japanese occupation. Chan of course is no Bruce Lee (although during one dramatic sequence, a still of Lee is cut into the frame to "remind" viewers of the filmmakers' intentions) but New Fist of Fury marks Chan's first entry as a leading actor in Hong Kong action films. --Shannon Gee
Customer Reviews:
Comeback movie (well first comeback) for Jackie.......2006-07-20
After co-starring in Hand of Death, Jackie Chan was forced into an early retirement because of the shift in consumer tastes in movies. The Hong Kong audience was dissatisfied with the action films after the death of Bruce Lee, leaving an ever-widening amount of unemployed stunt-men and bit-players. Since Jackie was one of these casualties he retired to Australia to be with his family. There he did construction in the day and worked in a Chinese restaurant at night. Then he received a telegram from Willie Chan wanting him to work in a new film called New Fist of Fury - a sequel to the beloved Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury. He told him that the movie would be for the newly formed Lo Wei Productions and that the film would be directed by Lo Wei himself. Jackie would receive 3000 Dollars (HK) per month for acting (he would later receive 9000 for being the stunt coordinator.) Little did anyone know that this unknown actor would become a big boon to the industry; though, this would not happen for a while and would not happen (directly) because of this film.
New Fist of Fury is typical of a Lo Wei film, it lacks cohesion and character with an overuse of plot elements. The film starts after the destruction of the Ching Wu School in Shanghai. The remnants of the school, led by the delightful Miss Lee (Nora Miao), are forced to flee to Taiwan to avoid persecution from the Japanese. She will stay with her grandfather Su Onli who is the head of a martial arts school. Unfortunately, the Japanese are ubiquitous in Taiwan too. When her group arrives, they are the target of a thief Helong (Jackie Chan) and his companion Old Chin (Hon Siu). Helong (Ah Lung in some translations) steals a wooden box containing the prize weapon of the late Brother Chen (Bruce Lee in the superior Fist of Fury) - nun-chucks.
Later, after Helong is found in a ditch beaten half-to-death by the students of Chin Ching Kai, he is found by Miss Lee's group and is nursed back to health (with the help of his prostitute mother's money, whom he does not know.) For all of this help and their forgiveness of him stealing their property, he refuses to learn Kung Fu so he can continuously be beaten up. Miss Lee has bigger problems than trying to get Helong to learn Kung Fu - the Japanese occupancy.
Akumora (played by the muscular Chan Sing) is the Japanese provincial leader who wants to combine the Chinese martial art schools under his Di Wah school. There is a great scene with him catching a knife in his teeth and then throwing it from his mouth killing an attacker. It is so hard to take this scene seriously, but it reminded me what Ed Wood might have done if he directed a Kung Fu film. Akumora is an interesting character that starts off semi-decent and then ends up completely anti-Chinese ("I kill Chinese, just like I kill dogs.") This is another annoyance with the film; it is completely ethnocentric with one-dimensional Japanese characters. This annoyance is especially evident when Akumora challenges a staged Kwong Gung, stating that the Japanese heroes are much better than Chinese's heroes. This infuriates Master Su during his 80th birthday celebration and leads to his death (when he jumps over a large crowd of people and apparently has a heart attack.) With the death of Master Su, Miss Lee decides to revive the Ching Wu School. This leads to an obvious clash with the Di Wah School.
One of the biggest problems with this film (yes even worse than the ever-yelling Jen Da So, the kiai spewing daughter of Akumora) is that Jackie is misused and miscast in this film. He constantly gets beat up by both Japanese and Chinese and yet refuses to learn Kung Fu. He does not get a decent fight scene until at least three-fourths of the film is over and yet he obtained his skills in just a few days (it is amazing what anti-Japanese sentiment can make you accomplish). When he does fight, his skills are quite evident. Jackie is very acrobatic and his fight scenes flow well though he is relegated to using actors who are weak in martial arts (with a few exceptions like Han Ying Chieh) and they slow down many of the action scenes.
I am a fan of Jackie Chan (and many of the HK films of this era), but this is not a film that rises above mediocrity. While it is not worse than many films during the 70's it has a few negative attributes that will doggedly follow it -- New Fist of Fury followed one of the most beloved of Bruce Lee films with a weak sequel and misused a future Hong Kong Superstar. Useless Tidbit: look for a small cameo role for Lo Wei where he portrays an inspector.
bad.......2006-05-22
jackie chan misses (he rarly does bad im sad to say he did)
didnt like it at all. not jackie chan style at all. bad fight scenes
Why it wasnt very good.......2005-12-13
As the reviewers below me have said, jackie is supposed to play bruce lee's brother in this movie. After Bruce Lee died director Lo Wei tried to turn Jackie into bruces replancement, hence why they made a sequel to the classic Fist of Fury (the chinese connection) I have read Jackies autobiography I AM JACKIE CHAN: MY LIFE IN ACTION and he stresses how much he hated being called "the next bruce lee". He didnt want to play a serious and fearless character like bruce lee's was. On the bright side this film allowed for him to become what he is today. In my opinion if you want to see a Bruce Lee style kung fu movie (aka a fearless hero who is an undefeated fighter), see the orignal Fist of Fury (called The Chinese Connection in america) and if you want to see a Jackie Chan kung fu/comedy movie (his characters are usually trouble makers that dont want to fight) i would recommend both the drunken master movies and snake in eagles shadow.
Horrible.......2004-12-30
"New Fist of Fury" was one of Jackie Chan's first movies, made before he discovered the comedy/kung fu combination that put him on the map. Being a sequel to Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury" (aka "The Chinese COnnection), it's Jackie's only full-blown 'Bruceploitation' movie. The story involves a young wise guy who decides to help Bruce Lee's Ching Wu school in the face of the evil Japanese army. This is without a doubt the worst Jackie Chan movie I've ever seen. The dull, slow-paced plot stretches for two hours, with nary a fight scene in the first half. In addition, it contains just about the worst rip-off ending in the history of cinema.
The DVD from Beverly Wilshire Filmworks is nothing short of abomindable. The transfer used appears to be from an eighth or ninth generation VHS tape, which is murky and washed out and nearly impossible to watch in the darker scenes. There are black bars at the top and bottom of the screen to give the illusion of widescreen, but it's obvious the company just slapped bars on a pan and scan print. Worst of all, there is no menu and no chapter links. Easily the worst DVD I have ever seen.
Ouch.......2003-01-07
Chan spends a long time getting his own rear end handed to him before getting shot like a little punk. Souds like a good flick, eh?
Average customer rating:
|
New Fist of Fury + Fist of Fury 3
Manufacturer: East West Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Product Features:
- 2 Feature Films
- All Regions DVD
ASIN: B000K5NNFY |
Product Description
Two Martial Arts films on one DVD. In NEW FIST OF FURY a fighter (Jackie Chan) organizes a rebellion against the Japanese in order to help defend the Ching Wu Martial Arts School. In FIST OF FURY 3 Chen Shan (Bruce LI) returns home after avenging his brother's death, but an organization of criminal thugs harass him and his family until he reaches his limit.
Average customer rating:
- Comeback movie (well first comeback) for Jackie
- bad
- Why it wasnt very good
- Horrible
- Ouch
|
New Fist of Fury
Starring: Jackie Chan , Sing Chang , Siu Siu Cheng , Yin-Chieh Han , and Nora Miao
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Martial Arts
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Hong Kong Action
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Jackie Chan
| Action Stars
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Art House & International
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Hong Kong
| By Country
| Art House & International
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Action & Combat
| Military & War
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
International
| Military & War
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
World War II
| Military & War
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Chan, Jackie
| ( C )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Miao, Nora
| ( M )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
General
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Hong Kong
| Asian Cinema
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Martial Arts
| By Genre
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Military & War
| By Theme
| Foreign & International
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Military & War
| By Theme
| Indie & Art House
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Art House & International
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
General
| Action & Adventure
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
Martial Arts
| Action & Adventure
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
Action & Combat
| Military & War
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
World War II
| Military & War
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
All Deals
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
( N )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
Similar Items:
- My Lucky Stars
- The Hand of Death
- Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
- Magnificent Bodyguards
- The 36 Crazy Fists
ASIN: 6304724748
Release Date: 1997-12-10 |
Amazon.com
This early film of Jackie Chan's was meant to shepherd him into the '70s kung fu genre pantheon made internationally popular by Bruce Lee. Indirectly it did, but probably more out of positioning than performance. Chan was to assume Lee's position as kung fu superstar, made evident by his role in New Fist of Fury (1976), the somewhat clunky chop-socky sequel to The Chinese Connection (on which Chan had worked as a stunt man). Directed by Wei Lo, New Fist of Fury picks up with two siblings fleeing a Japanese-occupied Shanghai for Taiwan, where their grandfather runs a Kung Fu school. However, a Japanese martial arts teacher has plans to run all the schools under his own name, eventually killing the grandfather. Chan plays a young thief who, at first, wants nothing to do with fighting but then finds his calling as the new leader of rebels against the Japanese occupation. Chan of course is no Bruce Lee (although during one dramatic sequence, a still of Lee is cut into the frame to "remind" viewers of the filmmakers' intentions) but New Fist of Fury marks Chan's first entry as a leading actor in Hong Kong action films. --Shannon Gee
Customer Reviews:
Comeback movie (well first comeback) for Jackie.......2006-07-20
After co-starring in Hand of Death, Jackie Chan was forced into an early retirement because of the shift in consumer tastes in movies. The Hong Kong audience was dissatisfied with the action films after the death of Bruce Lee, leaving an ever-widening amount of unemployed stunt-men and bit-players. Since Jackie was one of these casualties he retired to Australia to be with his family. There he did construction in the day and worked in a Chinese restaurant at night. Then he received a telegram from Willie Chan wanting him to work in a new film called New Fist of Fury - a sequel to the beloved Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury. He told him that the movie would be for the newly formed Lo Wei Productions and that the film would be directed by Lo Wei himself. Jackie would receive 3000 Dollars (HK) per month for acting (he would later receive 9000 for being the stunt coordinator.) Little did anyone know that this unknown actor would become a big boon to the industry; though, this would not happen for a while and would not happen (directly) because of this film.
New Fist of Fury is typical of a Lo Wei film, it lacks cohesion and character with an overuse of plot elements. The film starts after the destruction of the Ching Wu School in Shanghai. The remnants of the school, led by the delightful Miss Lee (Nora Miao), are forced to flee to Taiwan to avoid persecution from the Japanese. She will stay with her grandfather Su Onli who is the head of a martial arts school. Unfortunately, the Japanese are ubiquitous in Taiwan too. When her group arrives, they are the target of a thief Helong (Jackie Chan) and his companion Old Chin (Hon Siu). Helong (Ah Lung in some translations) steals a wooden box containing the prize weapon of the late Brother Chen (Bruce Lee in the superior Fist of Fury) - nun-chucks.
Later, after Helong is found in a ditch beaten half-to-death by the students of Chin Ching Kai, he is found by Miss Lee's group and is nursed back to health (with the help of his prostitute mother's money, whom he does not know.) For all of this help and their forgiveness of him stealing their property, he refuses to learn Kung Fu so he can continuously be beaten up. Miss Lee has bigger problems than trying to get Helong to learn Kung Fu - the Japanese occupancy.
Akumora (played by the muscular Chan Sing) is the Japanese provincial leader who wants to combine the Chinese martial art schools under his Di Wah school. There is a great scene with him catching a knife in his teeth and then throwing it from his mouth killing an attacker. It is so hard to take this scene seriously, but it reminded me what Ed Wood might have done if he directed a Kung Fu film. Akumora is an interesting character that starts off semi-decent and then ends up completely anti-Chinese ("I kill Chinese, just like I kill dogs.") This is another annoyance with the film; it is completely ethnocentric with one-dimensional Japanese characters. This annoyance is especially evident when Akumora challenges a staged Kwong Gung, stating that the Japanese heroes are much better than Chinese's heroes. This infuriates Master Su during his 80th birthday celebration and leads to his death (when he jumps over a large crowd of people and apparently has a heart attack.) With the death of Master Su, Miss Lee decides to revive the Ching Wu School. This leads to an obvious clash with the Di Wah School.
One of the biggest problems with this film (yes even worse than the ever-yelling Jen Da So, the kiai spewing daughter of Akumora) is that Jackie is misused and miscast in this film. He constantly gets beat up by both Japanese and Chinese and yet refuses to learn Kung Fu. He does not get a decent fight scene until at least three-fourths of the film is over and yet he obtained his skills in just a few days (it is amazing what anti-Japanese sentiment can make you accomplish). When he does fight, his skills are quite evident. Jackie is very acrobatic and his fight scenes flow well though he is relegated to using actors who are weak in martial arts (with a few exceptions like Han Ying Chieh) and they slow down many of the action scenes.
I am a fan of Jackie Chan (and many of the HK films of this era), but this is not a film that rises above mediocrity. While it is not worse than many films during the 70's it has a few negative attributes that will doggedly follow it -- New Fist of Fury followed one of the most beloved of Bruce Lee films with a weak sequel and misused a future Hong Kong Superstar. Useless Tidbit: look for a small cameo role for Lo Wei where he portrays an inspector.
bad.......2006-05-22
jackie chan misses (he rarly does bad im sad to say he did)
didnt like it at all. not jackie chan style at all. bad fight scenes
Why it wasnt very good.......2005-12-13
As the reviewers below me have said, jackie is supposed to play bruce lee's brother in this movie. After Bruce Lee died director Lo Wei tried to turn Jackie into bruces replancement, hence why they made a sequel to the classic Fist of Fury (the chinese connection) I have read Jackies autobiography I AM JACKIE CHAN: MY LIFE IN ACTION and he stresses how much he hated being called "the next bruce lee". He didnt want to play a serious and fearless character like bruce lee's was. On the bright side this film allowed for him to become what he is today. In my opinion if you want to see a Bruce Lee style kung fu movie (aka a fearless hero who is an undefeated fighter), see the orignal Fist of Fury (called The Chinese Connection in america) and if you want to see a Jackie Chan kung fu/comedy movie (his characters are usually trouble makers that dont want to fight) i would recommend both the drunken master movies and snake in eagles shadow.
Horrible.......2004-12-30
"New Fist of Fury" was one of Jackie Chan's first movies, made before he discovered the comedy/kung fu combination that put him on the map. Being a sequel to Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury" (aka "The Chinese COnnection), it's Jackie's only full-blown 'Bruceploitation' movie. The story involves a young wise guy who decides to help Bruce Lee's Ching Wu school in the face of the evil Japanese army. This is without a doubt the worst Jackie Chan movie I've ever seen. The dull, slow-paced plot stretches for two hours, with nary a fight scene in the first half. In addition, it contains just about the worst rip-off ending in the history of cinema.
The DVD from Beverly Wilshire Filmworks is nothing short of abomindable. The transfer used appears to be from an eighth or ninth generation VHS tape, which is murky and washed out and nearly impossible to watch in the darker scenes. There are black bars at the top and bottom of the screen to give the illusion of widescreen, but it's obvious the company just slapped bars on a pan and scan print. Worst of all, there is no menu and no chapter links. Easily the worst DVD I have ever seen.
Ouch.......2003-01-07
Chan spends a long time getting his own rear end handed to him before getting shot like a little punk. Souds like a good flick, eh?
Average customer rating:
- Good martial-arts flick.
- A LOOK AT THE STRANGER SIDE OF CHAN
|
Jackie Chan: New Fist of Fury/To Kill With Intrigue
Starring: Jackie Chan , Sing Chang , Siu Siu Cheng , Yin-Chieh Han , and Nora Miao
Manufacturer: Simitar Ent.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Martial Arts
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Jackie Chan
| Action Stars
| Action & Adventure
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Chan, Jackie
| ( C )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Miao, Nora
| ( M )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
( J )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
General
| Action & Adventure
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
All Deals
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
| Video
ASIN: 630525351X
Release Date: 1998-12-14 |
Customer Reviews:
Good martial-arts flick........2000-11-02
Two entertaining movies! Plots were intriguing, good action, and low price!! Good light fun for that lazy Sunday. Yes, low budget, but the movies plot & good fight scenes make up for the lack of heavy special effects.
A LOOK AT THE STRANGER SIDE OF CHAN.......2000-10-26
JACKIE WAS NOT THE MAIN MAN IN KILLER METEORS, BUT PLAYS A FORMIDABLE FOE TO THE KILLER METEORS. MORE INTERESTING WAS THE FILM TO KILL WITH INTRIGUE. ITS A TWISTED LOVE TALE BETWEEN JACKIE AND A WU TANG KILLER BEE. YOULL NEVER SEE JACKIE MORE MESSED UP IN A MOVIE!
Average customer rating:
|
New Fist of Fury
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B00020O6B2 |
DVD:
- The Ultimate Fight
- The Legend of the Flying Swordsman
- Instinct to Kill
- SF Short Films
- HAWAIIAN LUA - D
- Air America: Operation Jaguar
- Shaolin Ex-Monk
- Beyond the Law
- Winners of the West
- Fast Sofa
DVD List
DVD
DVD
Nevada Smith
For the Moment
Alex & Emma [P&S] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
DVD: House of Clocks
ECW - Living Dangerously Hard Hits