“Police Woman” Thai Theatrical Poster
AKA: Rumble in Hong Kong
Director: Zhu Mu
Cast: Yuen Qiu, Charlie Ching, Jackie Chan, Chiang Nan, Hu Chin, Betty Pei Dee, John Cheung Ng Long, Feng Yi, Lee Man Tai, Helena Law Lan
Running Time: 90 min
By Alvin George
I bought this movie for three bucks from Circuit City, hoping it would be better than the other ’70s Jackie Chan movies I’ve seen due to its modern (1970s) setting. Boy, did I think wrong. This movie is a piece of crap!
Jackie plays a bad guy with a big mole on one side of his face. A cabbie and a policewoman are out to get him. The dubbing is sh*t, the dialogue is lame, and the fight scenes are mediocre at best. Even the ’70s-style music score isn’t that good.
It is allegedly the first movie where Jackie Chan performs his first real stunt, where he leaps onto a taxicab going about ten miles an hour. At least the cab moves faster after that, but a somewhat similar scene in the American action movie Action Jackson, where Carl Weathers leaps onto a cab going FORTY miles an hour after outrunning kicks a lot more ass.
I ended up returning the stupid tape to Circuit City, claiming it was a defective product. (It didn’t track well on my VCR anyhow, probably because it was an EP dub.)
Alvin George’s Rating: 1/10 (I would’ve given it 0 if it weren’t for that one stunt and for the modern setting)
By Numskull
Compared to other “Jackie is my co-pilot” flicks like Eagle Shadow Fist, Fantasy Mission Farce and Killer Meteors, this is a masterpiece, but viewed in light of Jackie’s entire body of work, it’s still a travesty…
10 reasons why this film sucks:
1. Main hero advocates censorship.
2. Empty, sealed cardboard boxes.
3. Smack-in-a-can.
4. Audio quality comparable to that of two skeletons copulating on a tin roof.
5. Bell-bottoms.
6. Fight scenes with three sound effects.
7. The main villain’s teeth.
8. The word “daren’t”. Obviously a contraction for “dare not”, but it ain’t in MY dictionary.
9. Heroin withdrawal somehow inducing blue skin.
10. Why do so many JC video boxes insist that the movie is “Approx. 90 Minutes”?!?
Numskull’s Rating: 3/10
The tape I had was so naff the copy on the back a) said Jackie was the hero, b) that his character was called Bruce Li and c) then gave the plot synopsis of Eagle Shadow Fist!