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Legend of the Drunken Master (Widescreen)

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3 star:		(10)
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1 star:		(6)

 

 

I won't say anything about the movie itself ... just advise people to stay away from this Disney-released DVD (unfortunately they acquired worldwide rights for distribution). Dubbing is extremely poor to the point of being an offense to the buyer. Needless to say, the original (cantonese) audio is not included. The movie's original score has been replaced by a completely new one as well. The hilarious last scene of the movie has been cut completely. Other than that, the transfer is nice (better than other DVD releases) and yes, this DVD is uncropped & anamorphic.

Drunken Master 2 is one of the greatest martial arts films ever, especially given that most of its amazing highlights were done without any special effects, only the determination and skill of Jackie Chan and crew. The Legend of the Drunken Master dvd release represents an edited (slight but for any film purist significant enough) version of the film and most of all features NO original dialogue track, only the typically awful English dub. Hold out, and hopefully someday someone will have enough respect for both the film and target audience to put out a DVD worthy of this movie. For now, avoid Legend of the Drunken Master and find/make a friend who owns a subtitled vhs or laserdisc copy of Drunken Master 2.

Excelent
a great action movie and a great comedy there isnt a low spot in this movie. Off the start there is amazing fight sceens that are keeping your attention, but not without some story line and, Jackie Chans hillarious personality. But what is truly great about this movie would be that it starts with great action and continuously gets better, when its time for the end fight sceen you can't imagine any better action but youll be amazed again, and what i liked was the little to no use of wires in this movie contrary to many other kung fu movies. It really adds a reality to the action in a way.

What is also great is the well played characters even with the movie dubed it is still acted well enouph to make it a good movie. Not to mention the dubing adds to much of the comedy without being too cheesy.

So if you have never seen a kung fu movie see this one!

You will beilieve Jackie really is the Drunken Master

This is the best comedy martial arts film.

I rented this movie by Jackie for about the third or 4th time it has some of his best action like the restraunt scene are at the end this movie just kicks everyones ass and is deffinantly recommended some of Jackies best ever strongly recommended.
Acting 8 Story 10 Direction 10 Action 10 Entertainment 10

Overall=48/50 wich is good for its 5 star cinematic feature
Also Recommended
-Project A
-Accidental Spy
-some other Jackie movies

I bought this movie not knowing what it would be like. I read other reviews saying it was the best Jackie Chan film. I was hoping that you were right. After the first 30 minutes I thought it was good because of the sword fight in the beginning which was awesome. Then about 30 minutes later I got a little disapointed because the fighting wasn't the greatest at that point. Right after an hour of the movie it gets great. Best action ever occurs here. He fights like a hundred men. Kind of what the Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers was like. All the enemies had axes and they were coming through windows and every opening. It was awesome. Jackie and his other friend starting fighting. I'm not going to tell you any more about that.

Then at the 15 scene which is 15 minutes long he fights throughout the whole thing. When he's fighting the one boss guy its unbelievable. The enemy is swinging his foot and its making a whistle sound because he's swinging his foot so fast.

Basically whenever Jackie Chan drinks in the movie he gets very hyper and stuff and starts fighting better then anyone else. This is a great action movie overall.

I give it a 9/10. Loses a point for the dubbing because the talking ain't that great dubbed.

I recommend also:
-Jackie Chan's First Strike
-Rumble in the Bronx
-Mr.Nice Guy
-Gorgeous

Why American production make HK movies look so cheap? First of all, they cut off so much scene, second of all ruin it by making look act so dumb by English Dubb. ALWAYS stick with ORIGINAL LICENSED HK RELEASE. Be careful with cheap imports, boots, and bulls though.

Great DVD, very clear, wide-screen, good movie. But why did they have to ruin it by dubbing it into English? American viewers need to realize that dubbing a foreign movie into English NEVER makes it better. Keep the original language track!

The fight scenes are jaw dropping.

The skill that is involved to perform those feats is mesmerizing.

How far Jackie Chan will go to make as good a martial arts film as possible is highly commendable as well as very dangerous.

I thoroughly enjoyed this picture. Seen it many times and still I wonder how those actors/stunt people performed some of those feats. It's pretty wild.

The plot and story is also pretty funny, with Jackie Chan and his comedic timing.

Sit back, relax and let the movie take you on a nice ride with lots of action.

love it, if you like Jackie Chan you have too gat the two set! Debbie Cutright from wv