| 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. |