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10 Essential Jackie Chan Movies
Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential Jackie Chan films…
With Jackie Chan celebrating a birthday recently, I thought it high time I offered up a list of 10 essential films from the master of physical action comedy. His popularity has spread across the world from Hong Kong and China, to the west (even after early false starts to launch him as a star in the States). In the mid-80’s he was part of a collective of dynamic physical performers who revolutionised action cinema and the way a fight scene could be choreographed, shot and edited. Among the likes of Sammo Hung and Yeun Biao, Chan was the charismatic superstar and the one who put life and limb on the line to extremes no other mainstream star had seemingly done, since the long past days of Buster Keaton. For a time, high octane action and crazy stunts had a poster child, and his name was Jackie Chan. Here are 10 essentials:
1991: The Year in Action Movies
Tom Jolliffe ventures back 30 years to a year well stocked in action films…
Upon revisiting the cinematic landscape of 1991 recently, I noticed something that tickled my nostalgia no end. The year was chock full of action films, with a large number of films packing audiences in cinemas and a number also keeping video shop shelves well stocked with carnage. I’ll state right off the bat that the action film of the year was
Terminator 2: Judgment Day bar none, but I covered that in another piece, given it’s an all round exceptional example of cinema and not perhaps just of its genre.
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