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Format: VHS
Nov 1997
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
90 min.
Color
UPC: 601643230337 |
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Movie Description
Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung pioneered kung-fu comedy, and nowhere is their zaniness more evident than in DRAGONS FOREVER. Chan plays an amoral lawyer hired to defend a corporation polluting a local fish farm. He employs his friends (Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao) to dig up dirt on the fishery, but in the course of their hijinks, Chan and Hung end up falling in love with the people they are supposed to spy on. Despite the film's title, DRAGONS FOREVER is, sadly, the last film in the 20th century in which Chan, Hung, and Biao--former classmates in a Peking Opera troupe called the Seven Fortunes--acted together. It is also the only film where one can see them fight each other simultaneously. Yuen Wah, another former member of the Seven Fortunes, appears with the three "kung-fu-teers" as a cigar-smoking villain. The climactic fight features Chan against the kickboxing champion Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, in a rematch of their famous battle in WHEELS ON MEALS, which many consider to be the ultimate Chan fight sequence.
Synopsis
A lawyer called to defend a polluting corporation decides to hire his friends to dig up dirt on the company instead. Along the way the threesome encounter several delightful action sequences and some romance as well. DRAGONS FOREVER is a high-kicking, action-packed adventure featuring three of Hong Kong's biggest stars.
Film Notes
Sammo Hung also romances Deannie Yip in CARRY ON PICKPOCKET and OWL VS. DUMBO.
"In my opinion, the final fight of this movie is one of the best-shot action sequences that Sammo has ever directed. The pacing of my second battle with Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez is wonderful, too, beginning slow with each of us sizing up the other while we take off our shirts and circle warily, and then building tremendous momentum into a whirlwind of kicks and punches. Truly a classic kung-fu moment."--Jackie Chan in his autobiography, I AM JACKIE CHAN.
"I remember Chang calling me on the phone, asking me to come to Hong Kong. Jokingly, I said, 'Sure but I need to see a script.' They actually sent me one!"--Benny Urquidez in JACKIE CHAN: INSIDE THE DRAGON.
Industry Reviews
"...[A] rollicking combination of slapstick fighting, romantic comedy, and martial-arts showmanship..." -- Rating: 3 1/2 out of 4 kicks
Everitt
Quotations
"How could a nice man like me, who is loyal to his friends and a social elite in a father-centered society, meet with frustrations and mental ravages?"--Tung Te Pia (Yuen Biao) to Jackie Lung (Jackie Chan)
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