Jackie Chan's first big US movie, shot in Vancouver with kind of a glossy made-up version of The Bronx as kung fu, where the actors speak their native language and then get dubbed into English, even though most of the actors were speaking English anyway--so it looks like badly dubbed kung fu, quite amusing.
There's a ridiculous motorcycle gang who terrorizes the "Bronx" grocery store that Chan's uncle sells to a Chinese-American woman. Chan steps in with prop-heavy kung fu, but the gang chases him and corners him in an alley and throws bottles that break over his head and cut him. He lays on the ground, near death, but then they mysteriously decide to stop. Chan then befriends a boy in a wheelchair. It turns out Chan and the boy are neighbors in the same apartment building. The boy's older sister is in a motorcycle gang--the same gang that beat up Chan. They race another gang in an alley over a bunch of parked cars, and later the sister dances in a bikini in a giant cage with a tiger outside the cage in a weird gang bar. The gang has a weird hideout that's kind of like a clubhouse with pinball machines. What? There's a big pinball machine set-piece, with Chan doing his awesome sliding, hopping, smashing kung fu with pinball.
There's a mafia group stealing diamonds, and they're more evil than the motorcycle gang; so Chan teams up with the chick and the motorcycle gang (they're suddenly and inexplicably his friends--don't ask) to fight the mafia in a giant set-piece with a hovercraft and Chan water skiing on his feet and the hovercraft taking to land and crashing into busses and driving over people including Chan (think Wile E. Coyote being run over with a street roller). It's laughably terrible and pretty entertaining. In the Hong Kong version, Chan was a cop back in Hong Kong, but those references didn't make it into the US release.
There's a ridiculous motorcycle gang who terrorizes the "Bronx" grocery store that Chan's uncle sells to a Chinese-American woman. Chan steps in with prop-heavy kung fu, but the gang chases him and corners him in an alley and throws bottles that break over his head and cut him. He lays on the ground, near death, but then they mysteriously decide to stop. Chan then befriends a boy in a wheelchair. It turns out Chan and the boy are neighbors in the same apartment building. The boy's older sister is in a motorcycle gang--the same gang that beat up Chan. They race another gang in an alley over a bunch of parked cars, and later the sister dances in a bikini in a giant cage with a tiger outside the cage in a weird gang bar. The gang has a weird hideout that's kind of like a clubhouse with pinball machines. What? There's a big pinball machine set-piece, with Chan doing his awesome sliding, hopping, smashing kung fu with pinball.
There's a mafia group stealing diamonds, and they're more evil than the motorcycle gang; so Chan teams up with the chick and the motorcycle gang (they're suddenly and inexplicably his friends--don't ask) to fight the mafia in a giant set-piece with a hovercraft and Chan water skiing on his feet and the hovercraft taking to land and crashing into busses and driving over people including Chan (think Wile E. Coyote being run over with a street roller). It's laughably terrible and pretty entertaining. In the Hong Kong version, Chan was a cop back in Hong Kong, but those references didn't make it into the US release.