Keung from Hong Kong visits his uncle in New York. He soon makes enemies of a neighbourhood gang and then gets embroiled in a diamond deal gone wrong.
Being a Jackie Chan movie you know this is just going to be mindless action, and that's pretty much what it is. Citizen Kane this most definitely is not. However, this movie takes concentrating on the action and skimping on everything else to new levels.
Plot is pretty basic. Dialogue is laughable and the performances even worse - together they make for an excruciating film. But wait, it gets worse. Director Stanley Tong then dubs voices over the dialogue, resulting in lips and sounds doing different things and making for a ridiculously z-grade production. (Not sure why the overdubs were necessary, as many of the actors speak English fluently, so not like it was a language problem thing).
The action scenes are pretty good though and are the only things that make the movie remotely watchable. Well, those, and Françoise Yip.
Being a Jackie Chan movie you know this is just going to be mindless action, and that's pretty much what it is. Citizen Kane this most definitely is not. However, this movie takes concentrating on the action and skimping on everything else to new levels.
Plot is pretty basic. Dialogue is laughable and the performances even worse - together they make for an excruciating film. But wait, it gets worse. Director Stanley Tong then dubs voices over the dialogue, resulting in lips and sounds doing different things and making for a ridiculously z-grade production. (Not sure why the overdubs were necessary, as many of the actors speak English fluently, so not like it was a language problem thing).
The action scenes are pretty good though and are the only things that make the movie remotely watchable. Well, those, and Françoise Yip.