1. Master With Cracked Fingers (1971) - Absolutely terrible movie. They took some unused footage of Jackie from some other film and padded it out with extra scenes so it makes no sense. But, there were some decent fight scenes.
  2. Hand Of Death (1975) - written and directed by John Woo, featuring Sammo Hung. This was a cut above other 70s kung-fu films but still not very good. Biggest problem is, Jackie, although he's pictured as being the star, is just a minor character so is not in much of the film. But there are some good fight scenes. It was also pretty violent, as far as 70s movies go. Everyone dies. That's John Woo's style, I guess. Woo also appears in the movie.
  3. New Fist Of Fury (1976) - Terrible, terrible movie. I'm going to say it was worse than Master With Cracked Fingers. It's incredibly boring, to the point of physical pain, and Jackie doesn't even know how to fight until the last half hour. The sides were chopped off so you often can't see the characters talking, and there's barely any fighting. And the end is the most abrupt, nonsensical ending of a movie I have ever seen. Jackie leads a bunch of people outside and they all get shot, and that's the end. I actually think everyone needs to see this movie just to see the worst movie ending in human history.
  4. To Kill With Intrigue (1977) - I liked this more than I should have. The fight scenes aren't great, but it's one of the most interesting Jackie Chan films plot wise. Still makes no sense, but interesting. It's more violent and bloody, and there is absolutely no humor in this movie, which is different. Another interesting thing about a lot of Jackie Chan movies, even from the earliest is that there are strong female characters who fight. I thought that was fascinating. Anyway, I'm fairly certain that they gave two characters the exact same name. Chin Chin. One's Jackie's lover, one is his enemy. Talk about confusing. "It's Chin Chin!" That's good! Or is it bad? Who knows? Confusing.
  5. Drunken Master (1978) - Finally saw it. Couldn't find it on DVD so gave up and watched a tape. It's pretty good, I mean, far better than anything else of this era, but not nearly as good as other stuff he did after. Kind of disappointing that the real drunken boxing stuff only really happens at the end. But a good movie, I'd watch again. This movie has almost nothing to do with the sequel, except for Jackie and the name of his character.
  6. Spiritual Kung Fu (1978) - Slightly better than New Fist of Fury. Incomprehensible plot, and badly edited. But OK fight scenes, especially at the end. The best thing about this movie is that the story prominently features a group called the Wu-Tang clan.
  7. Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin (1979) - I actually liked this movie a lot. There are tons of fight scenes. The movie is basically a series of fight scenes interrupted by brief moments of plot. But yeah, the fight scenes are numerous, and they're pretty good. It's interesting to see the evolution of Jackie's fighting style. It's still not as well choreographed here, but you see how he starts to use different props and stuff. This movie was directed by someone named Chi Hwa Chen.
  8. Dragon Fist (1979) - Another terrible movie. This had the most incomprehensible plot of any Jackie Chan movie I've seen. Stop and think about what that means for a second. Seriously, they edited it to maximize confusion. Like there are scenes where Jackie goes somewhere, and the people there say come in. Cut to a scene of Jackie fighting. Who is he fighting? Why? No idea. Then cut again. What the heck is going on???
    There are other scenes where they refer to critical events that haven't happened yet in the movie. Like, one scene, Jackie, some chick and her mom are talking. Cut to Jackie and the chick talking to a doctor because the mom is seriously ill. When did this happen??? And then later scenes will show stuff that they were talking about earlier as being past events. Oh my goodness this movie is confusing. Argh.
  9. Fearless Hyena (1979) - I liked it. It's mostly bad although some good fight sequences, but what makes the movie is the last 20 minutes. Just incredible fight sequences, among the best I've seen in any Jackie Chan film. It's ridiculous. This movie is interesting because it's one of (if not the) first that Jackie directed himself, so you see more of his style start to come out here, the humor, the use of objects, etc.
  10. The Young Master (1980) - Pretty good, one of the best of his early era. This is the first movie he did for Golden Harvest, escaping Lo Wei, and it's noticeably different - better directing, better fighting, different cinematography, etc. Also, the DVD was in widescreen - all the Lo Wei ones are full screen (Half A Loaf and Fearless Hyena 2 are also Lo Wei which is why they suck). Anyway, Jackie directed this also, it's the first time he's called "Jackie" (before it was "Jacky") and Yuen Biao appears. It's a good flick.
  11. Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu (1980) - terrible movie. Nearly no good fight scenes, even the obligatory last scene. Exact opposite of To Kill WIth Intrigue - it's all comic, though not very funny. Another one of those movies with an incredibly frustrating plot. They keep introducing new characters until the very end. Impossible to keep track of who is who and what is going on. Chi Hwa Chen also directed this one. It's terrible.
  12. Big Brawl (1980) - worst movie ever made. It's an American production and I've written about it before, but it's absolutely terrible, torture to watch. I saw this in Serra Lounge.
  13. The Cannonball Run (1981) - A bad movie starring Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise. Jackie stars as a Japanese car driver. The thing is, he only speaks Cantonese. They don't even bother to make it coherent. So he's interviewed on a Japanese TV by a guy speaking Japanese and he's introduced as a Japanese driver, and he responds in Cantonese. Ridiculous. He barely appears and his appearances are bad. What's interesting is that this movie was produced by Raymond Chow and Golden Harvest, who produced most of Jackie's movies. But it's an American film. Random.
  14. Dragon Lord (1982) - Subpar Jackie Chan. He wrote and directed it, but it's not very good. There's about 2 fight scenes, the first one coming an hour into the movie. There is a pretty amazing shuttlecock game scene which is pretty good. Also interesting is that it has outtakes at the end, the first of his movies I've seen to have this.
  15. Winners and Sinners (1983) - I liked this movie. It's pretty funny, very funny in places. But it's not really a Jackie Chan movie - he's just a minor character. It's more a Sammo Hung movie. And not very many fight scenes. But it's funny and good. This movie is notable because one of the actors looks just like Josh Kwan and there's a character named Chai.
  16. Fearless Hyena 2 (1983) - pretty bad. The only real action happens in the last half hour. He apparently walked out in the middle of this film (and left the studio, headed by Bruce Lee director Lo Wei forever) so they used a double and footage from the first movie. To do that you need the same actors. So they're here. But it's a different story. Needless to say, the plot makes negative sense.
  17. Project A (1983) - costarring Sammo Hung. The version I saw was released by Dimension Films, I believe, and only had a dubbed track. Anger. But I liked this movie a great deal. It's one of the better Jackie Chan movies. I especially like Yuen Biao.
  18. Fantasy Mission Force (1984) - One of the most random movies ever created. The plot involves 4 generals during WWII, from the U.S., England, France, and Africa, one of them named Abraham Lincoln, who are captured by the Japanese in Canada. They're taken to Luxumbourg. And so, to avoid an international catastrophe, they send in... the Chinese. Including a cowboy and several thieves. Plot also includes an Amazon-like women only tribe, a haunted house, and muscle-car surfing Nazi Japanese. This movie is so bad there are tons of comments about it on IMDB. Anyway, Jackie Chan is in about 15 minutes of this movie.
  19. Wheels on Meals (1984) - you read that right. Not Meals on Wheels. Also costarring Sammo Hung. The entire movie is random and terrible, except for the last half hour, which is incredible. But still random. I watched this because Andrew mentioned how some magazine once said this movie had the best fight sequence ever. If you watch this, do yourself a favor and skip to the last half hour. You won't miss anything.
  20. My Lucky Stars (1985) - Like Winners and Sinners, it's not really a Jackie Chan movie, more a Sammo Hung movie. He and Yuen Biao appear only at the beginning and end. But still pretty good. Also has many of the same actors as in W & S, including the Josh Kwan looking guy.
  21. Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985) - Sequel to My Lucky Stars. Completely incomprehensible plot. Not as funny as the first either, but still pretty funny. Like the first, it's more Sammo Hung and friends movie, but this did have a few good fight scenes with Jackie and Yuen Biao. One cool thing about this movie is that it features a really young Michelle Yeoh.
  22. Police Story (1985) - the first Jackie Chan movie I ever saw, back when I lived in San Jose. This is a very very good Jackie Chan movie.
  23. Project A 2 (1987) - Also a good one.
  24. Miracles aka Mr. Canton and Lady Rose (1989) - I liked this movie. Very typical Jackie Chan: makes no sense, but pretty good fight scenes. Not as good as other movies around this time though.
  25. Operation Condor (1990) - at a Dollar Theater in Houston. I liked this movie also - it's pretty good.
  26. Twin Dragons (1992) - I finally saw this movie proper, albeit the dubbed, edited Dimension version with Looney Toons music. Before, I had only seen it at a random hotel in East Asia that only showed a part of the movie repeatedly. Meaning, they'd play like the same hour of it over and over, never the whole movie, I think. And in Chinese with no subtitles. Anyway, I loved it! I dunno, maybe just because I hadn't seen a good old school Jackie Chan movie in a while, but it was refreshing. Not the best fight scenes in the world, but among his (intentionally) funnier movies, and the whole twin angle was done fairly well, I thought.
  27. Supercop (1992) - the dubbed American release. Also a good one.
  28. City Hunter (1992) - on DVD. Pretty good. Best part is a tribute to Street Fighter 2. Random.
  29. Drunken Master 2 (1994) - my favorite Jackie Chan movie. First time I saw it with Irwin and others in AmStud, the RA's son's copy. I've seen it multiple times since. Absolutely incredible.
  30. Thunderbolt (1995) - I watched Keith Lee's copy in Yost with Kathy Yung. Random.
  31. Rumble in the Bronx (1995) - I actually saw parts of this in Korea in summer of '95, but saw it proper here.
  32. First Strike (1996) - Bought the VCD in East Asia. This movie is horrible. A lot of his newer movies just stink.
  33. Mr. Nice Guy (1997) - Also on VCD. Another terrible film, but with better fight sequences than First Strike.
  34. Who Am I? (1998) - I think I saw this multiple times because one version I had (I have at least two copies of this on VCD) didn't have English subtitles, although some of the movie is in English. I think I liked it overall.
  35. Rush Hour (1998) - I liked it but it could have used more fight scenes.
  36. Jackie Chan - My Story (1998) - A bio movie.
  37. Gorgeous (1999) - Pretty bad movie, but it did have a couple of incredible fight scenes. especially this one boxing scene. If it were shorter it would be a pretty good movie. It's one of the highest quality (just in terms of picture and sound) Jackie Chan movies I've seen. But one of the worst plots, and that's saying something.
  38. Jackie Chan - My Stunts (1999) - Very interesting. He exposits on his fight scene philosophies which I totally agree with.
  39. Shanghai Noon (2000) - I liked it. But my opinion is white directors don't film his fight scenes as well as they could. It was hard to follow in this movie.
  40. The Accidental Spy (2001) - I actually liked this movie a lot. It has the best production values of any (Chinese) Jackie Chan movie, even better than Gorgeous, and the best script. It still doesn't make any sense, but still. There's this one public nudity bit he does that's fairly inspired. Also, he plays a Korean! Long story, but yeah, pretty cool.

    The bad thing is, the U.S. version cuts 20 minutes from the movie. Maybe that's good, as his movies can get slow. But I dunno, I kind of want to see what I've missed. Also, the music was totally annoying. Way too comical in places, like a Saturday morning cartoon. Anger. And none of the fight scenes were as good as, for example, the boxing scene in Gorgeous. But still, overall, the best Jackie movie I think since maybe Rumble in the Bronx.

  41. Rush Hour 2 (2001) - I didn't like this movie, and the more I think about it, the less I like it. It wasn't funny, and there were just about no fight scenes in this movie. I don't know why it did so well but I hated it.
  42. The Tuxedo (2002) - This is an awful film. It's unlike a Jackie Chan movie except in one respect - lack of a coherent plot. There's not a single good fight sequence. Jennifer Love Hewitt is incredibly annoying. Usually you can ignore the nonsensical story because of the fight scenes, but this one had essentially none. Terrible terrible movie.