I didn't know if I should've put 2001 in the title, because the way I watched the film was from an old FOX airing of the movie put up on the Internet Archive.
Directed by STANLEY TONG
Written by
Edward Tang
Fibe Ma
Produced by Barbie Tung
Starring
Jackie Chan
Anita Mui
Françoise Yip
Bill Tung
Garvin Cross
Synopsis
Royal Hong Kong Police Force cop Ma Hon Keung (Jackie Chan) arrives in New York City for the wedding of his uncle Bill Wong (Bill Tung), a grocer who recently sold his Bronx store to the fetching Elaine (Anita Mui). After a biker gang bursts into the store to wreak havoc, Keung springs into action, giving up his vacation to defend the weak and protect the innocent with his extraordinary martial arts skills. As Keung investigates local gangs, he learns more about a criminal syndicate that needs to be brought to justice.
Review
So, if I had no expectations from the movie, I wouldn't be dissapointed. But this film introduced Jackie Chan to Americans, and was pretty bad which makes you understand why the American films from Jackie are horrible.
Firstly, Jackie's English prounounciation is pretty cringe (it was even worse back in 1980) but he was still learning English in the 1990s, so I can't blame him.
Secondly, Elaine is an annoying character who fondly reminds me of May from the first 3 Police Stories, who can't understand that JACKIE CHAN is a cop and when arresting bad people, he destroys a lot of things in the process of cop heroics. Ever watched Police Story or Police Assassins, Elaine?
Thirdly, the movie has no funny comedy scenes. A scene where Keung goes into Bill's store and says hi to a random woman thinking that she's his aunt is pretty normal. Until you get the rest of the scene were Bill is married to a black (mildly) obese woman. That scene just felt racist to me. Speaking of racism, all black characters are portrayed as loud annoying individuals, which is annoyingly stereotypical.. most of the time. (Chris Tucker, why?!)
Fourthly, the gang in New York is unrealistic and are bad villians. Tell me, if a movie has villians that aren't criminals would you find it interesting?
Anyways, the only parts of the film I liked were the fight scenes (there were only 2 good ones), the stunt, and the outtakes, which is particularly what I was waiting for.
So, uhh.. Rumble in The Bronx is a terrible cop movie and proves Americans like anything from America.
So here is my way of how to watch the film: Beginning of film, skip to the market fight. Then skip to next fight. Then next fight. Then big stunt. Then next fight. Next stunt. Then outtakes. Finish.
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