“The Legend of Drunken Master”

Yes... it's Yet Another Moview Review!

Friday night I watched Jackie Chan's The Legend of Drunken Master. I loved it! In my opinion, this is the best movie Jackie was ever in.

I thought Greg (who knows more about movies than anybody else I know) gave it a bad review, so I'd been putting it off for awhile. However, it turns out that there are two "Drunken Master" films starring Jackie Chan, as Greg said in his comments.

This Drunken Master was originally called "Jui Kuen II", or "Drunken Master II" (in fact it has a whole bunch of other titles, which makes for a little confusion if you're looking for reviews on the net). They re-released this 1994 film in the U.S. in 2000.

The fight scenes are incredible, the plot is interesting, the characters are well developed. What can I say? I'm a Jackie Chan fan, and I think this is his best movie (though there are a number of close runners-up). The movie is dubbed, but they did a great job with it and I think Jackie actually did his own voice-over. Besides... I like dubbed flicks, even those with really bad dubbing.