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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Jackie's best., September 12, 1999
The fight scenes in this are incredible. Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, and Richard Norton all have some of the best fight scenes. The routine with Sammo and his freind trying to get into bed with a girl is pretty cheesy, but hey! You watch Jackie Chan movies for action not for Oscar caliber performances! Come on! I rank this one up there with his other fine martial arts movies.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
less is more of the same, July 17, 2009
First off you've got to be a fan of some of these stars or otherwise just keep walking because these movies are a lot like the American "Oceans" movies, the stories are all the same and not to new to begin with. I am a huge fan of many of the stars (from the big names like Jackie to gwiallo Richard Norton) especially director/star Sammo Hung, but seriously folks this series is not his best work, and the third verse is the same as the first.
First there was Winners & Sinners (or Lucky Stars in some countries, but not in the US or HK) then came the superior My Lucky Stars. The movie's came about as Sammo Hung's genuis idea of mimicking the successful American-Hong Kong co-production of the Cannonball Run (yes, the Burt Reynolds movie). So, he got together a bunch of stars (a-listers, supporting players and forgotten stars of yesterday) to appear in his movie which has lots of car crashes, fights and dumb jokes. The second movie worked best for me, it has the best story and action scenes, but this, the third outing is much like the first film, we even get some of the same jokes recicyled, like the horny guys in a house with one girl routine.
I just don't care for much of the silly antics of the "lucky stars gang", but the supporting cast is great, that includes Jackie, Yuen Biao, Sibelle Hu, and now a fresh faced Andy Lau. Jackie's role seems to get smaller with each film, as has Sammo's, but then again we have so many other characters, including the return of John Sham, who skipped My Lucky Stars. So what warrants three stars, well it's the action and martial arts scenes, silly. And they are great, from an amusing cameo by adorable 19 year-old Michelle Yeoh as a karate instructor, to the final fights pitting Sammo against Richard Norton and Jackie against Yasakui Karata. This is action movie bliss and couldn't be better, the rest of the movie, oh say, an hour of it's 92 minute run time, pretty much stinks.
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