Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45901 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-06-04
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 95 minutes

Amazon.com
In Jackie Chan's first American movie, Chan and Danny Aiello (Do the Right Thing, Moonstruck) are cops who don't play by the rules. They're sent to Hong Kong to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a wealthy New York scumbag who's mixed up with an insidious heroin kingpin; to investigate, they go to a massage parlor, where the women try to kill them in the middle of providing sexual favors. It's not surprising that the gunplay is mundane, but even Chan's fight sequences are banal and unsurprising. The only entertainment value comes from absurdities, like a band of carjackers dressed like Adam and the Ants, or a sequence where it's revealed that the smuggled heroin is stashed inside of melons--and the stashing process is, inexplicably, performed by naked women. Jackie also swears; apparently the director thought he was making a Dirty Harry movie. An embarrassment. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Jackie Chan's THE REEDITOR
The Protector was one of Jackie Chan's early attempts to break into the American movie market and overall it was a failure. The movie contains many unChan like elements such as excessive violence, nudity and profanity. The film's director apparently had the great idea to make Jackie Chan like Clint Eastwood, how ludicrous is that? Aside from a few stunts and a cool kick here and there the majority of the action is slow and clumsy, (How many times have you heard that said about a Jackie Chan film?). The final fight between Jackie Chan and Bill Wallace is one of the lamest fights you'll ever see Jackie Chan in. However the film was not a total failure. First, after producton wrapped Jackie Chan shot new scenes and redited the movie for it's Asian release. Jackie Chan's version edits out some of the violence and all of the profanity and nudity. A new subplot was added that introduced new characters and further advanced the original story. New action sequences were also filmed and they were edited in with some of the decent action scenes from the original. The end fight with Bill Wallace is so superior to the original version. Jackie Chan's version is in many ways a totally different movie. However even Jackie Chan's reedits could not totally save what was a pretty lame movie from the start. All in all his version is highly enjoyable. Good things always come out of bad situations and this film was no exception. The frustration from this movie inspired Jackie Chan to produce one of his absolute best films and that was Police Story. In many ways he did it to show The Protector's director, James Glickenhau, how to film an action movie. Jackie Chan's reedited subtitled version is the one to seek out, do not waste any time or money on the American version.

Don't listen to Leonard Maltin
This is the HK version of the Protector, and much better than the American one. It has lots of the Jackie Chan mayhem you love, and some amazing stunts. (I'm not so sure about the plot, but Jackie Chan and plot seem to be mutually exclusive). It's also a hoot to hear Danny Aiello speaking perfect Chinese, and to see Jackie's lips speaking English, while his voice speaks Cantonese. However, I don't think I would pay $35 for it.

Its just not jackie!
I found the protector to be probably the worst jackie chan movie ive ever seen!Its definatly not a movie for kids to watch due the non-stop blood and guts and nudity.Jackie chan actually swears in this flim numerus times.Overall its just not jackie chan action,sure theres about 5 minutes of one fourth the kind of stunts and martial arts you expect from a jackie chan flim.So,to sum it up,theres no martial arts action,1 stunt(not even a good one),and all around its a pretty stupid flim,definatly not a normal jackie chan flim,DONT BUY IT,ITS TOTALY NOT WORTH THE MONEY OR THE TIME!