1994 - THE LEGEND OF THE DRUNKEN MASTER aka DRUNKEN MASTER II

 Jackie Chan's sequel to Drunken Master was a mixed bag.  It has two splendid fight sequences, some cheap sentimentality and a lot of the silly slapstick humor he seems so fond of.  Yet the film is Jackie Chan in his prime as an athlete.

The story is loosely based on the legend of Wong Fei-hung a famous martial arts expert and physician.  However Jackie Chan has chosen to play him as a guy who can't fight unless he gets really drunk. It's all kind of stupid after a while.  Chan has loaded the film up with his usual stock company.  Chief among them is Anita Mui a legendary cantonese singer who Chan has cast as his stepmother of all people. 

The film was directed by Lau Kar-leung who was a martial arts choreographer and director.  Apparently he and Jackie Chan had a lot of disagreements during the making of the film but it's clear from the final form of the film Jackie Chan was calling most of the shots behind the camera.

 

A key film in the Jackie Chan filmography, the film does have some amazing martial arts scenes. 

The film was written by Edward Tang, Tong Man-ming and Yuen Chieh-chi it runs 102 minutes.