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Rumble in the Bronx
紅番區
1995 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Stanley Tong Gwai-lai
Keung comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keung offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keung befriends a neighbour kid and beats up some neighbourhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.
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Except for that one hit movie (Rumble in the Bronx) when Vancouver stood in for New York.
https://imgur.com/a/jr1KARI
I do the same in Las Vegas, "sin city" moniker and all. I lived in Boston, NYC, LA, Montreal, and Spokane. I had two bikes stolen while I was working at the county public defender's and my girlfriend called the police, filed out a report, and nothing ever came down the line on the other side. The officer tried to talk her out of filing the report. Since I've worked in other jurisdictions and have heard broadly about how few fucks are given about property crimes generally, we don't even know how high or low this figure is in comparison to other cities with different policies. It could very well be true that people are experiencing recency bias, triggered by a question that touches upon something that wasn't taken seriously to begin with.
Also, I live in Las Vegas now and I also don't know anyone who had their car broken into or packages stolen. I left my Steam Deck outside for 48 hours since it was delivered early and hidden poorly, but I wasn't looking and didn't even notice it. But since none of the polls - the Chronicle or the Standard's - mention vehicle prowling, we have even less data on that. Why even bring it up? Nobody was expecting Rumble in the Bronx (great movie in spite of the whole movie being made up of stereotypes).
Rush Hour 1 is a fun movie, the others are meh. They are not even close to the quality of some of the Hong Kong movies. Also Tucker gets pretty old quickly.
Rumble in the Bronx is an insane movie that is US based, better then Rush Hour.
I don't really count films he did after Rumble in the Bronx as part of his oeuvre, he effectively retired from doing the kind of physical performances that made him great after 1995. By the time he made his debut in Hollywood his body was a little too broken to keep up the routine.
yup, reading this comment I couldn't stop thinking about Rumble in the Bronx. Police Story and a bunch of other more obscure HK movies are pretty dark as well.
I've always loved Jackie Chan's movies for their childlike innocence. The logic in his movies is the logic of kids, which is also why kids absolutely love his movies (as I did).
The villains and heroes in his movies think the way kids do. If you defeat the neighborhood bad guy, of course all crime would stop. If you're a rich guy, of course you'd turn your entire wealth into diamonds. Who wouldn't want diamonds?
The violence in his movies is also never really sinister. Nor are the villains - especially the thugs-for-hire cannon fodder - ever truly evil. In Rumble in the Bronx, the initial bad guy - Tony (iirc) - becomes Jackie's friend once he realizes that Jackie is actually a good guy.
That's child logic, and I absolutely love it.
I know some "serious" movie critics fault his movies for their simplistic plot lines, but to me, this is a feature, not a flaw.
Outside of animation, I don't see any western movie maker doing anything remotely similar.