Dragon Forever: Viewer Comments

One of the all-time best kung fu movies ever. If you don't have this movie in your martial arts movie collection, then your collection rides the short bus and requires guidance. This is arguably Jackie, Sammo and both Yuens' best collaboration ever, packing high energy superbly choreographed fight scenes with memorable performances from the majority of the main cast. A lot of people believe that the Jackie vs. Benny "The Jet" fight in "Wheels On Meals" is their best on-screen match-up. They're wrong. Their match up in "Dragons Forever" was their best throwdown and incorporated a higher level of more technical combinations with better shots of the larger and more flamboyant techniques. If you don't have it, you must obtain it some way if there is ever hope to complete your collection properly. Oh yeah, and watch for Benny "The Jet" kicking Yuen Biao in the dome with a 360 back kick off of a table that looks like it connects so harsh that it had to put someone in a damn coma. Tell your friends. Tip your waitresses. I'm out.

The fight between Jackie and Benny Urquidez is definitely a wonderful fight scene. This one deserves to be overrated. Their fight in Wheels on Meals was way overrated in my opinion. You see both stars at their best! You also see Yuen Biao here at his best just the same. I would say that Yuen Biao is probably the most acrobatic of the three, but Jackie comes in at a very close second. Sammo Hung is probably third in acrobatics but first in action directing. Jackie comes in a close second for action directing and acrobatics, but he comes in first for comedy and stunts.

The last in the Jackie/Sammo/Yuen series was probably the best one of them. Chan stars as hotshot lawyer Johnny Lang who is hired by drug dealer/businessman Mr. Hua (Yuen Wah) to defend him in court against pollution charges pressed by Miss Yei (Pauline Yeung). So Johnny asks friends Luke (Sammo Hung), a dodgy arms dealer and Timothy (Yuen Biao) a neurotic burglar for help. As he plans to keep an eye on the plaintiffs, he falls for Nancy (Nancy Lee), Miss Yei's cousin. After getting confronted of his plan by Timothy and Luke (just before a hilarious fight between the trio), Johnny gets his two allies to help him confront Mr. Hua.

As the film has an environmental issue based plot, this features some of the best fight scenes ever to be choreographed by the Jackie Chan Stunt Club and the Sammo Hung Stunt Team, like the end finale between Jackie and Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, the fight scene between Jackie and some knife swaying thugs trying to kill him on a yacht and the two scenes where Jackie, Sammo and Yuen go head-to-head against each other. The film also contains great performances by Chan, Hung and Yeung. But Yuen Biao steals the show with his role as the neurotic burglar (probably one of his best performances) shines off most of the comedy and his charisma (especially the scene when he visits the psychiatrist- a cameo by Cherie Chung). If you want a movie that is action packed, with bone tickling comedy and a dash of romance- THIS IS THE MOVIE FOR YOU!!!! And an absolute un-missable feature for any Hong Kong Cinema and Jackie fans alike. Simply great!

The fights are great (for which there are 6 main fights and a couple short ones!), and to be quite honest, this is all the film boasts! The story actually has Jackie as the bad guy who turns good. Sammo and Yuen are excellent and prove that, when it comes to fighting, they're up there with the best of them!

Best bits in the film: The three brothers beat each other up in a car park and the whole of the end 15-20 minute climax that pits Benny "The Jet" against Chan the man! Awesome