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    by Jeffrey Frawley


Part 1 is a first-rate bildungsroman-train hard and take revenge story, showing Jackie Chan's genius-level originality and flexibility. Part 2 is an insulting hodgepodge of outtakes compiled by producer-director Lo Wei to cash in on the superstar he had driven away. There's a reason Jackie Chan left these bits out of the first movie: they're not good enough.
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N5 stars for Fearless Hyena 1. But for the whole collection it's just not worth it if the second film is there.NJ69899
YLo Wei was pissed Jackie finally left and used everything he could find from Jackies earlier four films. Do yourself a favor and never watch the second side.Cinema!
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    by DarkHumour


"The Fearless Hyena": Jackie Chan at his classic best, fighting for revenge. 5 stars.

"The Fearless Hyena 2": A poor excuse for a plot and a cash-in on Jackie's name. No stars.

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    by The Dragon


For FH part1, an excellent display of Jackie's skills, and talent for Cantonese humor. The end fight is really energetic, with JC displaying tremendous conditioning.

Part 2 on the other hand, is not much of an effort, seeing as JC left the production early on and Godfather Lo made the film anyway.

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    by Cinema!




There are two very different movies with this set. The first "Hyena" begins with a young Jackie living in a new town with his grandfather. Grandfather has forbidden Jackie from using their family kung fu. Before long there is a fight between three unscrupulous but poor martial artists and they want Jackie to come to their school. Knowing how upset his uncle would be he must wear different clothing and pretend to be other people, including a female. Eventually his mischief exposes his grandfather and when Jackie tries to help him he is held still and quiet even as his grandfather loses the match and dies.

He learns this person is the "unicorn" a member of their family. Unicorn is disabled and requires a crutch but with Jackie so upset even he can take him down. In order to have a match and win for the sake of his grandfather he must train to build his body and mind. Some of the training is amazing, but then what would we expect of an early Jackie Chan movie? In order to win he has to use all of his emotions to confuse the enemy and to bring forth all of his skills.

One day after training he goes home only to find Unicorn missing. He follows the tracks and just barely saves Unicorn from death. The rest....well see for yourself!

The second disc. Remove from package, throw in the trash and never look back.

It isn't even a movie. This is a pieced together mess courtesy of Lo Wei. By this time in Jackie's career he and Wei were not on good terms. Wei was demanding another movie and when Jackie refused Wei dredged up clips from other Jackie movies including edited portions of Fearless Hyena, Spiritual Kung Fu, etc. I couldn't stand watching the whole thing and so made much use of the FF option. A lot of people including the "unicorn" take a sword to the gut or neck. I lost track of how many get killed off but it was indicative of Wei's anger. Jackie fought hard to prevent the second film from ever being released, but Golden Harvest settled out of court with Wei, and the horrid movie remains today.

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YPart 2 is nothing but Lo Weo spitting in Jackie Chan's face. Part 1 is very worthwhile.Jeffrey Frawley
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