Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76444 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-01-19
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese
• Subtitled in: English, Vietnamese, Japanese, Georgian, Thai
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Amazon.com essential video
A fitfully amazing, frequently disheartening hodgepodge of action, farce, and romance, slapped together as a costarring vehicle for three of Hong Kong's major movie stars: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung (who also directed), and Yuen Biao. Its light-footed, try-anything spirit makes it consistently enjoyable, but these wonderful performers are working (to put it kindly) beneath their gifts. Chan plays a womanizing attorney who recruits arms-dealer Hung and madcap inventor Biao to dig up dirt on the corporate sleaze balls he's supposedly defending--industrial polluters (and heroin smugglers) whose effluents threaten the bucolic fish farm of a handsome widow woman. The trio doesn't have many collective scenes, so their Three Musketeers act never really gets off the ground. As always, the fights and stunt work are mind-boggling; the jaunty details are fun: Chan's flick-of-the-wrist trick with a fancy briefcase; Hung's deft run- through of a few choice Cantonese opera moves; and Yuen Biao's Olympic-level acrobatics on, around, and within an industrial steel-tube staircase. --David Chute

Customer Reviews

A Bittersweet parting of Ways
This movie, sadly, was the final movie that Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Sammo Hung made together before each going his own separate way. But, the action in this movie is awesome. Besides this being the only movie where you get to see the Opera brothers fight, Chan rematches with Benny "The Jet" Urquidez(Whose sporting an odd and disturbing makeup job). And hey, Yuen Wah is back, this time playing a sleazy industrialist. Wah was also trained in the Opera alongside Chan, Hung, and Biao. He was the stunt double for Bruce Lee in "The Chinese Connection" He was the one that did the aerial somersaults. My only complaints were the video game music and the underuse of Wah's martial abilities. I could have done without the romance, but it was a necessary plot device. All in all, an excellent film. Here's hoping for a reunion in the future.

Sammo, Jackie and Yuen!!
Three of the best martial arts film stars ever can be found right here. The result is pure magic. Great action scenes and comical moments you've come to expect. This is a must-have for any fan of the three.

Jackie Chan steals the show from Samo Hung and Yuen Biao.
Probably one of Jackie Chan's best, this movie ranks high among Jackie's great movies such as Wheels on Meals and Police Story. This movie is not only filled with great comedy, but the fighting scenes are un-matched by any American fighting fighting scenes. This is movie also features the return of Benny "the Jet" Urquidez, in which Chan and Urquidez do battle in the final fight. This was the last movie Yuen Biao, Samo Hung, and Jackie Chan have made together so far and this movie is still the best after 12 years. There are no three guys in the film industry that can match the trio of Chan, Hung, and Biao for action or comedy. This is a must see video. I'd give it ten stars if I could.