I've been duped once again.
Just like the last time I watched the Peter Cushing film. The film proudly presents Jackie Chan as the main star.
But it's a lie.
If anything the real star is Andy Lau.
And there's nothing wrong with Andy Lau. I think you should be able to put his name proudly on top of the movie poster and give him his due.
He's not as famous as Jackie Chan by any means. But come on, at least show a little honesty.
Now Jackie Chan is at least present for out the movie. He gets a pretty amusing pool ball scene where he wins a game of a hundred and one in a continuous Multi pocket shot and then he has two fairly good Kung Fu scenes.
But otherwise he's pretty much absent throughout the whole thing.
The film starts out as an undercover cop story in where Andy's character is purposely send to a maximum-security prison to uncover some sort of devious plot.
But then somewhere throw-out the film the main plot becomes less relevant. The guy that put Andy Lau in prison set him up to begin with and there's this whole weird game of cat-and-mouse that you honestly forget about because Chan's Story comes along and then there's another guy who keeps Escaping The Prison, and another guy who supposedly part of a Japanese Yakuza (or at least he has the tattoos to look like one) and he functions as a kind of prison boss who decides to stop the feud between Jackie Chan and the prison gang who's working for the Mobsters on the outside.
Finally when we do get around to that undercover cop plot again it then turns into this weird action flick where all of our main characters go out of secret agents fighting an army of central Americans. Before nearly being assassinated by the people that sent them out to begin with.
Then ending when Andy confronts the commissioner (or whatever the heck this high-ranking police officer is) who set up all these elaborate schemes to begin with.
At least the ones involving Andy. He has nothing to do with the mafia wanting to kill Jackie Chan.
There's just too many plots going on. Oh and there is a mafia guy who purposely gets himself put in prison to kill Jackie Chan, because Jackie accidentally kills his brother trying to get money to save his girlfriend with a black market liver
Which she only needs because she was attacked by a different mobster who told Jackie Chan to purposely lose the pool game which sounds like a boxing game were first introduced to him.
So many things!
If you're trying to watch this film for a comprehensive story then you're going to get a little frustrated.
If you just want to see fun fighting with a Chinese interpretation of American prison culture, than you'll have a lot of fun.
The stories do all intermingle in the end and they kind of wrap up. It's just not their priority and it's a bit weak for that.
But then that's not really the point of the movie now.
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