Product Details

• Actors: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Biao Yuen, Pauline Yeung, Deannie Yip
• Directors: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Corey Yuen
• Writers: Cheuk-Hon Szeto, Gordon Chan, Yiu Ming Leung
• Producers: Leonard Ho, Raymond Chow
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Tai Seng
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305092052
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,682 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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A fitfully amazing, frequently disheartening hodgepodge of action, farce, and romance, slapped together as a costarring vehicle for three of Hong Kong's major movie stars: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung (who also directed), and Yuen Biao. Its light-footed, try-anything spirit makes it consistently enjoyable, but these wonderful performers are working (to put it kindly) beneath their gifts. Chan plays a womanizing attorney who recruits arms-dealer Hung and madcap inventor Biao to dig up dirt on the corporate sleaze balls he's supposedly defending--industrial polluters (and heroin smugglers) whose effluents threaten the bucolic fish farm of a handsome widow woman. The trio doesn't have many collective scenes, so their Three Musketeers act never really gets off the ground. As always, the fights and stunt work are mind-boggling; the jaunty details are fun: Chan's flick-of-the-wrist trick with a fancy briefcase; Hung's deft run- through of a few choice Cantonese opera moves; and Yuen Biao's Olympic-level acrobatics on, around, and within an industrial steel-tube staircase. --David Chute

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Bittersweet parting of Ways, January 4, 2000

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William Paschall (Murfreesboro, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragons Forever [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie, sadly, was the final movie that Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Sammo Hung made together before each going his own separate way. But, the action in this movie is awesome. Besides this being the only movie where you get to see the Opera brothers fight, Chan rematches with Benny "The Jet" Urquidez(Whose sporting an odd and disturbing makeup job). And hey, Yuen Wah is back, this time playing a sleazy industrialist. Wah was also trained in the Opera alongside Chan, Hung, and Biao. He was the stunt double for Bruce Lee in "The Chinese Connection" He was the one that did the aerial somersaults. My only complaints were the video game music and the underuse of Wah's martial abilities. I could have done without the romance, but it was a necessary plot device. All in all, an excellent film. Here's hoping for a reunion in the future.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jackie Chan steals the show from Samo Hung and Yuen Biao., April 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dragons Forever [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Probably one of Jackie Chan's best, this movie ranks high among Jackie's great movies such as Wheels on Meals and Police Story. This movie is not only filled with great comedy, but the fighting scenes are un-matched by any American fighting fighting scenes. This is movie also features the return of Benny "the Jet" Urquidez, in which Chan and Urquidez do battle in the final fight. This was the last movie Yuen Biao, Samo Hung, and Jackie Chan have made together so far and this movie is still the best after 12 years. There are no three guys in the film industry that can match the trio of Chan, Hung, and Biao for action or comedy. This is a must see video. I'd give it ten stars if I could.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great movie, so-so DVD, March 24, 1999

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Patrick Fitzgerald (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dragons Forever (DVD)

First let me say this is one of my favorite Jackie Chan movies, especially with the addition of Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Lots of great fights and stunts, but unfortunately none of the standard Jackie Chan outtakes at the end of the movie.

The DVD transfer is not up to Hollywood standards, but considering the source material it is not too bad - much better than the pan-and-scan VHS version I had previously seen.

The re-mixed Dolby Digital 5.1 sound was relatively clear, but the sound effects during the fight scenes were overdone with typical kung-fu movie sounds whenever characters took a swing or made a kick. This was very apparent when Benny the Jet "cracks" his neck - it sounds like he's made of balsa wood. This is no different from the VHS version, but with the directionality of the surround mix, the sounds become even more distracting.

There were some differences from the VHS version: a scene was missing where Yuen Biao visits his psychiatrist. This ommission makes his character's motivation a little harder to understand, but other than that you're only missing out on a little comedy.

Also, there were no subtitles to the song lyrics in the middle of the movie. This is unfortunate, because the subtitles on the videotape version were unintentionally hilarious ("our hearts walk arm in arm...a touch, and sparks of electricity leave my heart strings atremble, love is conveyor belt of warmth"). DVD owners will miss these wonderful lyrics.