15 films with Jackie Chan for fans of spectacular stunts, martial arts and good humor

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Action movies featuring the legendary actor and interesting facts about the filming.

Most of the facts come from the giant IMDb site database, but some interesting details have been found elsewhere. Among them: fan sites and resources with biographies of various stuntmen and Jackie's partners on the set.

Drunk master

• Action, comedy.
• Hong Kong, 1978.
• Duration: 111 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

The legendary film about the training of a daring youth as an elderly kung fu master who is always not averse to drinking.

Few people know, but the character of Jackie Chan - Huang Feihun (Wong-Fei Hung) - is a real figure of Chinese history and the founder of one of the most famous styles of wushu called hungar. Already at the age of 13, Feihong was considered an excellent fighter, and having joined the ranks of the army during the Xinhai Revolution, he became famous throughout China as Robin Hood of the 20th century.

The influence of alcohol on the demonstrated fighting style is not mentioned anywhere, so we can assume that the film is a free interpretation of the theme. Jackie himself did not drink alcohol for a better entry into the role. Instead, before each drunken scene, he lowered his head down so that the blood rushed to his head and his face turned red.

Food truck

• Action, melodrama, comedy, crime.
• Hong Kong, 1984.
• Duration: 108 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

Action comedy about how two adventurous Chinese people set up their mobile diner in the heart of Barcelona.

This is the first film to feature multiple kickboxing champion Benny Urkides as one of Jackie's main opponents. During the filming, he delivered punches for real, which significantly complicated the process of staging the final fight. However, the result of such an experiment was one of the best duels in the history of cinema.

In the same battle, Urkides accidentally extinguished several candles standing next to him with a sharp kick. This was not planned, but was included in the film.

Police Story

• Action, comedy, crime.
• Hong Kong, 1985.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

The first film about a Hong Kong super policeman who almost single-handedly managed to grab the boss of the local drug mafia.

The pole descent scene in the department store almost made Jackie an invalid. When performing this trick, he received severe burns to his palms, broke the seventh and eighth vertebrae, and also received a displacement of the hip joint.

"Police Story" together with "The Drunken Master" is included in the "" list.

God's armor

• Action, comedy, adventure.
• Hong Kong, Yugoslavia, 1986.
• Duration: 88 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

The beginning of the adventures of the Asian hawk - a seeker of treasures and ancient relics, whose next target was a mysterious ritual sword.

In this film, Jackie received one of the most dangerous injuries, which led to a cerebral hemorrhage. It happened after jumping from the castle wall to a tree: Chan could not resist and fell headlong on a stone, breaking the base of the skull. It is because of the surgery that some shots of the film show that different lengths of hair on the actor's head can be seen.

For the shooting of "Armor of God" Mitsubishi has made a unique Colt Targa Concept car, driven by Jackie. This machine was never used anywhere else.

Police Story 2

• Action, thriller, comedy, crime.
• Hong Kong, 1988.
• Duration: 101 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Continuation of the story about an honest policeman, for whose murder the drug mafia boss hires a crazy killer.

The explosion of the factory at the end of the film was the largest in the history of Hong Kong cinema. The directors decided to use not a staging structure, but a real building. For its spectacular demolition, experienced pyrotechnics from the United States were invited.

The music in the film may seem very familiar to all fans of the Jackie Chan films, as the soundtrack is partly copied from Armor of God.

Armor of God 2: Operation Condor

• Action, comedy, adventure.
• Hong Kong, 1991.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

An Asian hawk, accompanied by two girls, travels to the African desert in search of Nazi treasures.

One of the most memorable stunts in the film - jumping from a motorcycle to a crane in the port - Jackie did not perform himself. For this scene, the famous French stuntman and director Michel Julienne was invited. He also put on car tricks in the first part of the film.

The battle scene in the wind tunnel took about four months, while filming the entire film took about eight.

City Hunter

• Action, melodrama, comedy.
• Hong Kong, Japan, 1992.
• Duration: 105 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 5.

An eccentric detective played by Jackie is sent to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a famous millionaire.

Despite Jackie Chan's uncharacteristic role as a playboy and a womanizer, he calls this film one of the most beloved in his career.

The battle scene in a movie theater on a cruise ship, where Jackie fights with the help of clues from the movie with Bruce Lee "Game of Death", can be considered the third joint appearance on the screen of Bruce and Jackie. In the two previous films - "Fist of Fury" (1972) and "Entering the Dragon" (1973) - Jackie Chan appeared only in episodes and was not even credited.

Drunken Master 2

• Action, comedy.
• Hong Kong, 1994.
• Duration: 102 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

This time, the famous Huang Feihong is accidentally drawn into the story of the theft of ancient Chinese relics.

The seven-minute duel at the very end of the film was filmed for almost four months. Jackie then noted that three seconds of a good movie usually takes a whole day of filming.

The scene of a fight with a crowd of opponents armed with axes was copied in the 2005 game The Matrix: Path of Neo.

Showdown in the Bronx

• Action, comedy, crime.
• Hong Kong, 1995.
• Duration: 89 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 7.

A policeman from Hong Kong comes to his uncle in America, where he will become an unwitting participant in the showdown of local hooligans and the mafia.

The plot of the film is set in New York, but in fact, most of the filming took place in Vancouver. To recreate the dysfunctional Bronx environment for some scenes, the film crew painted graffiti on the walls every day, and washed them off by evening.

The episode with the beating of the hero Jackie with empty bottles was filmed using a huge impenetrable glass installed right in front of the actor. It was on such a shield that the bottles were broken.

Mister cool

• Action, comedy, crime.
• Hong Kong, 1999.
• Duration: 88 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 2.

A simple host of a culinary show accidentally becomes the owner of evidence of a bloody showdown between gangs of drug dealers.

The film was directed by Sammo Hung, who also starred with Jackie in Snack on Wheels, Dragons Forever, Project A and others. In the film "Mr. Cool", he also played the cameo role of a curious cyclist.

The mansion in the final scene was built specifically for the filming of this movie for $ 1.5 million. And it was demolished with the help of a Haulpak heavy-duty dump truck, designed for work in quarries.

Who am I?

• Action, comedy, adventure.
• Hong Kong, 1998.
• Duration: 118 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 8.

A member of a special forces group, having survived the plane crash and lost his memory, tries to find out who he is and what task he was performing.

The film was planned to include a scene where Jackie rides a rhinoceros. This episode was indeed filmed, but due to a mistake by the operator, the take was spoiled. It was not possible to re-shoot the scene again due to the actor's injury.

The creators of the picture signed a contract with Mitsubishi. The best cars were used for filming, which were demonstrated from all sides. Among them was the fresh model Lancer Evolution IV, released in 1996.

Rush hour

• Action, thriller, comedy, crime.
• USA, 1998.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

Thugs in Los Angeles kidnap the daughter of a Chinese consul, and a Hong Kong inspector and a talkative American policeman are looking for her.

Initially, it was planned to invite Martin Lawrence for the role of Carter. But Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappell, Will Smith and even Tupac Shakur were also considered. Judging by the fact that the latter died back in 1996, the selection of actors began long before the start of filming.

Jackie managed to perform a dangerous slide down the canvas at the very end of the film only by wearing a few pairs of jeans and using a soft lining. Without all this, friction was intolerably hot.

Fabulous

• Action, thriller, comedy, crime.
• Hong Kong, Taiwan, 1999.
• Duration: 96 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 1.

One of the most romantic films with Jackie Chan, where he played the role of a modest millionaire, whose life is not as easy as it seems at first glance

The main character is a lot like Jackie Chan himself. In real life, the actor also adheres to the ideals of integrity, performs exactly the same sports exercises and even prefers the same clothes as his character.

The role of the main sparring partner in the film is played by Australian actor and martial artist Bradley James Allan. In the late 90s, he joined Jackie's stunt team, and then became the director of action scenes and stunts for many Hollywood films, including Avatar, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Wonder Woman and Han Solo: Star war. Stories.

Accidental spy

• Action, thriller, comedy, crime, detective.
• Hong Kong, 2000.
• Duration: 87 minutes.
• IMDb: 5, 9.

An ordinary sports equipment salesman one day finds out that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy man, who was also an experienced spy.

In the American version of this film, about 20 minutes of timing was cut and the plot was seriously changed. It was in it that the former spy turned out to be the father of the protagonist, while in the Hong Kong version he still was not. In addition, in the extended ending of the original, Jackie Chan's hero is offered to become a spy.

Jackie Chan wanted to perform the crane trick for almost 20 years, but the technology for its implementation became available only during the filming of this film.

Shanghai noon

• Action, Comedy, Adventure, Western.
• USA, Hong Kong, 2000.
• Duration: 110 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 6.

The story of the kidnapping of a Chinese princess, for whom the bodyguards of the imperial family will have to go to the Wild West.

The name of Jackie's hero - Chon Wong - is the Chinese-language version of the name of the American actor John Wayne, who is known from many legendary American westerns. The same actor is also mentioned in the movie "Rush Hour".

Sitting in the adjacent baths, the heroes of the film play a game where the loser drinks a free kick. According to the rules, two people must simultaneously pronounce the poem and show special gestures for each line. The one who is the first to make mistakes with words or gestures loses. The ever-increasing pace complicates everything. The poem itself sounds something like this:

If no one was mistaken when reading it, then after the fifth line the players show one hand to each other with a certain number of extended fingers. The player who does not guess the total number of fingers shown by both players loses.