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Release Date:
23 February 1996 (USA) moreTagline:
No Fear. No Stuntman. No EqualPlot:
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Jackie Chan’s The Myth on R2 DVD (From 24FramesPerSecond. 11 March 2009, 5:01 PM, PDT)
Jackie Chan Displays Handprints in Avenue of Stars
(From WENN. 7 April 2004)
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Early Jackie Chan American adventure is still one of his best and most entertaining ones. more (65 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jackie Chan | ... | Keung | |
| Anita Mui | ... | Elaine | |
| Françoise Yip | ... | Nancy | |
| Bill Tung | ... | Uncle Bill | |
| Marc Akerstream | ... | Tony | |
| Garvin Cross | ... | Angelo | |
| Morgan Lam | ... | Danny | |
| Ailen Sit | ... | Tony's Gang Member | |
| Chan Man Ching | ... | Tony's Gang Member | |
| Fred Andrucci | ... | Tony's Gang Member | |
| Mark Antoniuk | ... | Tony's Gang Member | |
| Lauro Chartrand | ... | Tony's Gang Member | |
| Chris Franco | ... | Tony's Gang Member | |
| Lance Gibson | ... | Tony's Gang Member | |
| David Hooper | ... | Tony's Gang Member |
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Also Known As:
Rumble in the Bronx (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)Hong fan ou (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Red Bronx
Zizanie dans le Bronx (Canada: French title)
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Rated R for some language and violent sequences.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
104 min | USA:87 min | USA:91 min (DVD version)Color:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Denmark:16 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:16 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Canada:13+ (Quebec)Filming Locations:
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaFun Stuff
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Filming in Vancouver, Canada on October 6th, 1994, Chan broke his right ankle while attempting the scene where he jumps onto the hovercraft. Despite the injury, he was present at the premiere of Jui kuen II (1994) at the Vancouver International Film Festival that night. Later in the production, Tong sprained his ankle, completing the film on crutches. Françoise Yip also broke her leg while filming the scene where she rides a motorbike across the tops of parked cars. She insisted on returning to the set after her leg was plastered at hospital. Two stunt women also broke their legs during the filming of the motorcycle chase. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: A pair of white gloves is visible when Keung is manuevering on the fence. These gloves are to resist friction. moreQuotes:
Ah Keung: Don't ever make trouble here. Or I'll beat you up each time. Careful, mind the step. moreMovie Connections:
Featured in "The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Mosters vs Aliens/The Haunting in Connecticut/12 Rounds (#1.5)" (2009) moreSoundtrack:
Stigmata moreFAQ
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This is basically the movie that introduced Jackie Chan to Hollywood and the world to Jackie Chan. It brought the crazy and amazing action and fight sequences from Chan's into the western world of film-making. It makes this movie something fresh and unique, or at least for its time it was. I remember first seeing this movie in the mid-'90's, just before the time it was released as a rental movie. My brother was working in a video-store and had to take a few new video's home with him in order to decide whether or not the video-store should buy this movie for rental purposes. In those days this movie was really something fun and spectacular to watch and shortly afterward Jackie Chan also became a real big and popular movie-star. Way more popular and appreciated as he is now days.
What really makes this movie is its action. It's never anything too big, also since the movie is made obviously with a fairly low budget but it's very entertaining and amazing at the same time. Amazing, since obviously no harnesses or cables were used for the fight sequences and stunts. It also resulted in lots of broken bones and other injuries during the production but the end result for the movie is really something great and spectacular looking and is brought very entertainingly by Jackie Chan and director Stanley Tong, who both directed the action sequences together. You should see this movie just purely for its entertaining action, since everything else about the movie is actually quite bad to be honest. It might very well be the Jackie Chan movie with the very best action in it.
The movie is a very entertaining one to watch that gets better as it progresses. It's as if the in the first halve tried to be too serious with its approach but in the second halve the gloves are off and the movie becomes truly ridiculously over-the-top and fun at the same time. The best example of this is perhaps the finale sequence in which Chan and his happy friends get the main bad guy with an hovercraft. It's a totally pointless and completely ridicules and also short, rushed done sequence but because of that it at the same time works out very hilarious. I'm still looking for a movie with a better use of the hovercraft than this one!
It's hard to really judge the acting in the movie, since all of the actors were dubbed, even the American actors. This gives the movie an even more ridicules feeling and also makes the acting seem as something completely horrible and over-the-top.
The movie its story often makes lots of crazy jumps and it perhaps even feel as two totally different scripts that were blend in with each other, with as a result that not everything always makes a whole lot of sense and continuity and character treatments are messy. It perhaps almost seems as if the story was mainly purely there to let the movie feature as many and crazy stunts and fight sequences as possible.
The movie is most of the time looking and definitely feeling as a B-movie but in a good way. It's made as an entertaining movie and at entertaining this movie does simply not fail.
As long as you don't pay any attention to the story or logical and it's acting or anything else like it, you'll simply enjoy this movie for the entertainment that it brings, with mainly it's over-the-top but absolutely amazing action sequences.
7/10