The Jackie Chan Collection [DVD]

Fast Shipping good format and I like all the movies recommend to anyone!! If you like Martial Arts you will love this

These have to be some of Jackie Chan's earliest works. I think it takes a true aficionado to fully appreciate this collection. This would be a 'must have' for any serious collector, to be complete. As an aficionado, I enjoy this collection the same as I do the old Keystone Cops movies, or W.C.Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and other unique, if dated, classics. We need to judge them in the light of the times in which they were created; not compared to modern film making techniques. It would be like comparing a classic model T Ford to the latest Ferrari. They each hold their own special place in history.

I would only recommend this to someone who wants a collection of all of Jackie Chan's films. These are some hard to find kung-Fu/chop-socky movies with Jackie Chan in them. But calling this The Jackie Chan Collection is a stretch. While I enjoy (most of) the movies themselves, the poor video and audio bring the rating way down for this collection. The only movie that has Jackie in a starring role is "Master with Cracked Fingers". It's also the only movie that fans of "the Jackie Chan style" might be even remotely interested in as it does show a bit of his style, but this set is not worth it for a casual Jackie Chan fan. The quality of the movies on these DVDs are very poor. They are quite obviously ripped from full-screen (1.33:1 ratio) video tapes. You can even see the video noise from the degraded tapes that were copied. The audio is on the same quality, which is only the English dub track. There is absolutely no digital mastering done here.

They sent me just a case. While the case (as seen in the picture) is cool i would have loved the DVDs that came with it. Luckily the people who sent it were nice enough to give me a refund without any hassle but just be careful and be sure your getting EVERYTHING you are paying for.

Came in great, good movies if you're a kung fu fan

Sound was bad. I guess these were his first movies. Picture quality not that good. Not what I expected. Was not worth the money

I disliked everything about them from the acting, stories, poor quality, etc.. I didn't like one thing I could name. I don't know why they give the copyright statements because I cannot imagine anyone wanting them. I'm stuck for the money I spent as they are going to help fill my waste basket.

These are five of the worst movies I have ever seen. The only one worth the plastic it is encoded on is Master with Cracked Fingers. Even that contains scenes blatently chopped from Drunken Master (a true Chan classic), and for the grand finale Jackie has mysteriously disappeared, replaced by a barely adequate stand-in. In Young Tiger, Jackie is miscast in an uncomfortable bad-guy role with a horrible, hairy mole on his cheek. Fantasy Mission Force is just plain bizarre, with Chan appearing only occassionally. At least when he does show up, he's in classic Jackie Chan form. This is in stark contrast to his unfortunate roles in Young Tiger and Eagle Shadow Fist. Eagle Shadow Fist is a fairly standard kung fu flick...in which Jackie is killed off in the first half of the movie. I can't comment on the rest of the movie because I turned it off after that. Fire Dragon is, perhaps, the worst of all. It isn't even its own movie, it is a hacked up, alternate version of Fantasy Mission Force. Many scenes were blatantly chopped from Fantasy Mission Force and dropped awkwardly into Fire Dragon, overdubbed with completely different English dialogue. Weird! Fantasy Mission Force was bizarre to begin with, but hacked up and rearranged into Fire Dragon, it is completely baffling. The only way I could recommend anybody to ever purchase this set of films, is if you really want to own five of the worst movies you'll ever see. Fantasy Mission Force, and its hacked up sibling, Fire Dragon, are so incredibly strange and awful, they're almost worth watching on that basis alone. Master with Cracked Fingers has its moments, but is ultimately disappointing on several levels (not the least of which is Jackie's absence in the big finale). Eagle Shadow Fist and Young Tiger might be tolerable for their genres, but certainly not for Jackie Chan fans. Do not buy this set expecting to see the Jackie Chan we all know and love, or you will be bitterly disappointed. If you are looking for classic, early Jackie Chan, I highly recommend Drunken Master.

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