1995 - RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, Jackie Chan breaks into the American market

This film should probably be called Rumble in Vancouver instead of Rumble in the Bronx since the film was primarily filmed there.  You can see mountains in the background and cars with Canadian license plates.

 This film was a big deal for Jackie Chan.  He had been trying to break into the American film market for a while and this film finally did it for him. However this is not one of his better films.  It can't begin to hit the peaks of Police Story, Wheels on Meals or Project A to name a few.

 

Still the film is very entertaining. Jackie Chan is a superb athlete and the fights and stunts are staged with his usual dynamic action beats.  The film is loaded with nubile women and lots of cheap sentimentality.  The scenes of the little kid in a wheelchair are particularly grating to watch. However all is forgiven when Jackie Chan starts beating the crap out of a particularly nasty bike gang.

 

The film was written by Edward Tang and Fibe Ma who probably spent most of their time figuring out how to incorporate the stunts and fighting into some sort of coherent story. 90 minutes (the US cut).