Dragons Forever

Starring:Jackie Chan, Lung Chan, Kar Lok Chin, Billy Chow, Hark-On Fung, Shui-Fan Fung, Phillip Ko, Wai Lam, Chia Yung Liu, Fui-On Shing, James Tien, Sam Wai, Dick Wei, Ma Wu, Pauline Yeung, Deannie Yip, Biao Yuen, Wah Yuen
Director: Corey Yuen
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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A fitfully amazing, frequently disheartening hodgepodge of action, farce, and romance, slapped together as a costarring vehicle for three of Hong Kong's major movie stars: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung (who also directed), and Yuen Biao. Its light-footed, try-anything spirit makes it consistently enjoyable, but these wonderful performers are working (to put it kindly) beneath their gifts. Chan plays a womanizing attorney who recruits arms-dealer Hung and madcap inventor Biao to dig up dirt on the corporate sleaze balls he's supposedly defending--industrial polluters (and heroin smugglers) whose effluents threaten the bucolic fish farm of a handsome widow woman. The trio doesn't have many collective scenes, so their Three Musketeers act never really gets off the ground. As always, the fights and stunt work are mind-boggling; the jaunty details are fun: Chan's flick-of-the-wrist trick with a fancy briefcase; Hung's deft run- through of a few choice Cantonese opera moves; and Yuen Biao's Olympic-level acrobatics on, around, and within an industrial steel-tube staircase. --David Chute

Dragons Forever: 2 Disc Platinum Edition (Hong Kong Legends) [Region 2 Import - Great Britain]
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Dragons Forever: 2 Disc Platinum Edition (Hong Kong Legends) [Region 2 Import - Great Britain]

Manufacturer: Hong Kong Legends
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Product Features:

Audio commentary by 'Hong Kong Cinema' expert Bey Logan

Dragons Remembered

hai Breaker - Thai Boxing with Billy Chow

Deleted Scenes & Outakes

Trailer Gallery + more

ASIN: B000IOBS68

Dragons Forever [Region 3 Import]
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Dragons Forever [Region 3 Import]

Manufacturer: Fortune Star
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Language: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS) and Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1)

Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and English

Anamorphic widescreen

ASIN: B000N55YCQ

Product Description

Hotshot lawyer (Jackie Chan) is hired by a mysterious chemistry factory to dig up dirt on an inconvenient fishery seeking damaging court action. Sidekick Hung and professional crook. Yuen swiftly sprint to Chan's aid. Ironically the gang finds their toughness softening in the face of two gorgeous ladies at the fishery. They inadvertently hit a center nerve of the chemical factory when they unmask the hideous facade of a narcotic syndicate.

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Movie not available not right now, wtf. It's ok, you can just tape it off of spike tv like i did.
Original is better
Three martial superstars in one fun film
The BEST film from the three brothers!!
Jackie wins by a nose

Dragons Forever
Starring: Jackie Chan , Lung Chan , Kar Lok Chin , Billy Chow , and Hark-On Fung
Director: Corey Yuen
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 6305261415
Release Date: 1999-01-19

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A fitfully amazing, frequently disheartening hodgepodge of action, farce, and romance, slapped together as a costarring vehicle for three of Hong Kong's major movie stars: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung (who also directed), and Yuen Biao. Its light-footed, try-anything spirit makes it consistently enjoyable, but these wonderful performers are working (to put it kindly) beneath their gifts. Chan plays a womanizing attorney who recruits arms-dealer Hung and madcap inventor Biao to dig up dirt on the corporate sleaze balls he's supposedly defending--industrial polluters (and heroin smugglers) whose effluents threaten the bucolic fish farm of a handsome widow woman. The trio doesn't have many collective scenes, so their Three Musketeers act never really gets off the ground. As always, the fights and stunt work are mind-boggling; the jaunty details are fun: Chan's flick-of-the-wrist trick with a fancy briefcase; Hung's deft run- through of a few choice Cantonese opera moves; and Yuen Biao's Olympic-level acrobatics on, around, and within an industrial steel-tube staircase. --David Chute

Customer Reviews:

Movie not available not right now, wtf. It's ok, you can just tape it off of spike tv like i did. .......2006-06-17

Wow, what an awesome movie. I have seen this like 4 times now and it just gets better every time. I am ALWAYS seeing something new. It is not like jackie's old school golden harvest films but has much more of a kinetic type of energy that just sucks you into the tv and you can't look away. So they don't go through a fight scene with like no cuts for 2 straight minutes but this movie is HARD HITTING. BEnny the Jet Urquedez vs jackie chan is one of the coolest thing ever put to the kung fu screen. he is caled Jet for a reason people. And if the jet that you are thinking of fought him, it would not work out very well for the little guy. Benny is actually more respected than Chuck Norris in the world Kickboxing Federation. BEnny went 200-0. Seriously, the guy never lost. If you wanna see Benny and Jackie Part one, check out "Wheels On Meals"(Seriously, that is the name of it). Add in a dream matchup like yuen biao vs. BIllY CHOW, and you have one of the best kung fu movies all time. AAnd did I mention that samo is in it. I didn't, ok, here is a few more. Philip Ko. Yuen Wah. Lo Lieh... And if you have ever seen legend of a fighter, this movie has sanaka it in(the japanese guy who kills himself after beardy beats him in a fight). IT HAS FREAKING EVRYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So of course this movie could haev been better, but not really too much by kung fu standards. The fu is easily the best it gets, and for a jackie film, I would rate this as his best new school type of kung fu movie performance. EASILY!!!!!

Original is better.......2006-02-05

If you want UNCUT ORIGINAL version, ALWAYS look for ORIGINAL LICENSED Production. NOT US Release. Its a foreign film, it should not be US version to begin with~! HELLO!!!?? Why settle for LESS with US Version where they edit and cut so many excellent scenes especially with Jackie's Fighting Scenes. And US Release ruins the speed and sound as well. I have been collecting Jackie Chan's movies both HK and US Release Version for quite some time now. I found HK Version to be MUCH MORE in enjoyable, and HIGHER in Quality. American Market always like to "Americanize" and "Control". Regional Code Regulation thing is one of the example to CONTROL the Market. Why not let everyone enjoy the same HK Original Release move the same way ENTIRE WORLD enjoys it ?? No one makes Hollywood American movies to "French version" or "Chinese Version" ~! This what Americans are doing~! Well, enjoy the cheap "American version" then~! LOL

Three martial superstars in one fun film.......2005-11-20

Jackie chan is amazing. Sammo Hung is amazing. Yuen Biao is amazing. Put the three of them in a movie, and it'd be hard to end up with something bad. Well, in this case, you end up with something great.

To begin with, there's the martial arts. These guys are three of the best Asian cinema has to offer. Yuen Biao, though not widely know in America, is considered to be one of the most athletic martial artists around. Of course, Jackie and Sammo are no slouches either, and this movie delivers a lot of colorful action.

But it's also funny. It reminds me of those old screwball comedies of the fifties. It's ridiculous, absurd comedy based on misunderstandings and well-intentioned deceptions. The scene where Jackie's date is interrupted by his two fighting friends is damn funny. And the interaction between these three friends is what makes this film a classic.

For another great collaboration of this terrific trio, check out "Wheels on Meals", another fine film.

The BEST film from the three brothers!!.......2005-08-02

Dragons forever is the last film from the three brothers and also the best, I think.

Jackie wins by a nose.......2004-10-01

Jackie Chan's box office success with the Rush Hour movies has cemented his reputation as a film legend. Although fellow martial artists Samo Hung, Yuen Wah and Yuen Biao will never reach his status, their fights together in Dragons Forever (MIA) rescue the film from its convoluted plot.

Jackie is blessed with the grace of Kelly, the stunted charm of Roger Moore, the comic timing of Benigni and the nose of a caveman. Despite a few colourful bruises, his nose survives Dragons Forever intact. The same goes for his romance with the heroine - it's not without its kicks and twists, it takes a hammering but goes the distance.

Jackie plays Mr Lung (nickname: Big Nose), an unorthodox lawyer whose techniques include beating up a client and forcing a witness to admit her love for him while under oath. The narrative defies logic at times, with characters acting erratically. The blame for this must lie with director Samo Hung, who gives some of the best scenes to the loveable arms dealer he portrays. Fed up with living in Jackie's shadow, he made no more films with the superstar.

A pity, because any flaws in the plot or the subtitles are compensated by intricately structured action sequences. As with the best Jackie Chan fights, most of these set pieces involve sparse sets and a minimum of props. The audience are left to marvel at slow-motion acrobatics and crafty stunts. The main villain's come-uppance is particularly memorable, as he is injected with hard drugs, falls from a gantry and drowns in a narcotic soup.

Dragons Forever is mercifully economical in length - a herd of extras pile into shot as the credits roll, brushing aside scenes that must have cost more than a series full of Casualties. The audience is left to marvel at the action-clogged climax, confirming GQ Magazine's appraisal of Jackie as 'the biggest martial arts movie star of all time.'

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