When you could be bad. Refusal to star in “Destroyer” and “Black Rain” is not the result of Chan’s complacency or his unwillingness to break into Hollywood – it is his firm decision to remain in the eyes of fans extremely kind, simple and positive guy, getting into all sorts of changes. However, in the early seventies, Jackie’s career was in its infancy, behind his back there were only four episodic roles, so he did not hesitate to play a bandit in the film “Disassembly in Hong Kong” ... becoming part-time the only reason why this tape did not disappear into oblivion.
Because it was, frankly, very mediocre. It's cheaply written, cheaply filmed, cheaply voiced. The action is quite good, but the brightest episodes still went to the share of Chang and Qiu Yuen, who surprised me very much - a beautiful woman, and fights with courage and skill, inaccessible sometimes to other fighters. For example, the Glavhero is a taxi driver who was not lucky enough to put a dying woman in his car with a very important handbag, which is hunted by Chan and Co. Charlie Chin does a good job of playing the role of “a simple guy in trouble”, but it would be better if all the swings of the limbs were left to Yuen’s share.
In general, the combat and other action scenes are put somewhere on three out of five. Mostly because of the inept editing, especially when the scenes of fights for some reason inserted in the car chase — and this happens, curiously, in almost every scene with fights. Apparently, the director had some thing about people being chased by cars - in any case, these inserts are poorly mounted and voiced. The semantic side of the picture also came out no better than the spectacular - an ordinary police fighter without claims.
In general and in general - a film about which there is not much to say, and which - without Jackie Chan, and even in an atypical hypostasis for himself - at the level of fame and lookability stood next to the numerous ninja films Godfrey Ho. Although, on the other hand, the showdown in Hong Kong will be a little smarter than, for example, frankly absurd canvases like Bruce Lee’s Clones (there is a real tape about, in fact, clones of Bruce Lee, grown by some agency to fight crime – it sounds much cooler than it looks), but if you leave any comparisons – it’s just a passer.
5 out of 10