Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148490 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-12-17
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: Cantonese
• Subtitled in: English, Portuguese, Spanish
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 104 minutes

Amazon.com
A 1976 novelty item for Jackie Chan completists only; he plays one of his rare costume roles, and his only bad guy. The star is Jimmy Wang Yu (One Armed Swordsman) as Hero Mei, a freelance warrior whose top-secret weapons are explosive projectiles known as killer meteors. Mei is hired by the so-called "Immortal Meteor," Hua Wa-bin (Chan), to eliminate his pesky wife, who (Hua claims) is plotting to kill him. There are some clever, gimmicky fight sequences and some amusingly far-fetched weaponry. A couple of glamorous sword-fighting women are also involved, as is a potion called the Pulverizing Drug, which melts people into puddles, like vampires exposed to sunlight. But there's so much plot to get through (adapted from a lengthy serial novel by Gu Long), and so many long-winded explanations to plow through that none of the characters have much free time for fighting. The movie plays both as hard-boiled (with everybody betraying everybody else) and as a medieval Chinese conspiracy yarn: kung fu Robert Ludlum. --David Chute

Customer Reviews

Don't listen to the Jacky fans.
Quite simply, this is not a Jacky Chan movie. Don't buy this expecting to see Drunken Master style farce. Jacky is evil. Really evil. In fact, he's a total loser. Hence the scores of negative reviews from people unwilling to watch any old Hong Kong flicks that do not involve Jacky's whacky acrobatics. The star of this movie is JIMMY WANG YU. Wang Yu is more of a Clint Eastwood type. He rips one liners and literally wrecks people. There are no fart jokes and no peeing, just well paced action and likeable heroes. For the price, it's a capable transfer of an aged movie.

I like it
This is a good Kung Fu flick. I enjoyed it. Great fights and the Killer Meteors are awesome. Jackie Chan plays the bad guy which I like because I'm use to seeing him as the good guy. I don't regret buying this movie at all.

Jackie Chan as a Villain!
"The Killer Meteors" provides further evidence that producer/director/hack Lo Wei had no clue as to Jackie's real potential. Lo Wei built several "Bruce-Lee-alikes" around Chan in the early '70s. Despite the fact that the "chop-socky" had ran its course, Lo Wei blamed the lackluster commercial performance of these movies on Chan. One result of this problem was "The Killer Meteors," an early Chan film, featuring him as the villain! Chan delivers a spectacular performance, as always. Unfortunately, he only appears in the last third of the movie. Also, Chan as a villain becomes somewhat difficult to swallow, considering his lovable, down-to-earth personality depicted in the vast majority of his films. Overall, one of Lo Wei's better films, but it suffers from too little Chan.