Returning home with his father after a medicinal expedition, Fei-Hong gets caught up in the battle between outsiders who want to export ancient Chinese artifacts, and the loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country.
Fei-Hong has learnt the style of fighting called Drunken Boxing, which makes him a dangerous person when under the influence.
His father is opposed to any kind of fighting, let alone drunken boxing, but Fei-Hong not only has to fight against the outsiders, but he must overcome his father's antagonism......
The thing is with Jackie Chan movies is that story comes second the barrage of balletic choreography that is on display for all to see.
And again, the story here is your perfunctory tale of big people trying to overthrow the little people, and just as they are trying to make a stand to the man, Chan shows up right in the middle of it, and gets caught up in it, much to frustration of his father.
So it's a good job then that the film doesn't really give you time to think about the flat narrative, as the action scenes a wonderful, and show you that not only is Chan this generations Buster Keaton, or Charlie Chaplin, he is an elegant fighter.
Every fight is wonderful, and really brings the film back to the surface of affable.
If you are a fan of the star, this has to be one of his better efforts since the nineties, and puts all his Western movies to shame.
Hollywood just didn't know what to do with him, scaredy cats....
Fei-Hong has learnt the style of fighting called Drunken Boxing, which makes him a dangerous person when under the influence.
His father is opposed to any kind of fighting, let alone drunken boxing, but Fei-Hong not only has to fight against the outsiders, but he must overcome his father's antagonism......
The thing is with Jackie Chan movies is that story comes second the barrage of balletic choreography that is on display for all to see.
And again, the story here is your perfunctory tale of big people trying to overthrow the little people, and just as they are trying to make a stand to the man, Chan shows up right in the middle of it, and gets caught up in it, much to frustration of his father.
So it's a good job then that the film doesn't really give you time to think about the flat narrative, as the action scenes a wonderful, and show you that not only is Chan this generations Buster Keaton, or Charlie Chaplin, he is an elegant fighter.
Every fight is wonderful, and really brings the film back to the surface of affable.
If you are a fan of the star, this has to be one of his better efforts since the nineties, and puts all his Western movies to shame.
Hollywood just didn't know what to do with him, scaredy cats....