Young Jackie Chan's Ambition

Lesley 2022-03-21 09:02:40

As a very young moviegoer, I am very ashamed that I have hardly seen any movies made by Jackie Chan in the 20th century, so this 1998 "Who Am I" undoubtedly gave me a big surprise. It can be said that I was in it. I saw a different Jackie Chan from the more recent Jackie Chan movies I had seen - a younger Jackie Chan with more ambition and more dangerous moves.

This movie has a lot of action scenes such as martial arts and drag racing, while the literary drama is squeezed to the point where only the necessary backbone is left. One of my favorite action sequences is the chase scene in Rotterdam with handmade shoes and agents. Thrilling and fun - don't forget to save the puppy from the sky while running for your life.

The part that slides down from the glass roof reminds me of Nicholas Tse in "New Police Story", which must be a tribute to this movie. In terms of visual effects, it can be said to be thrilling, and if I hadn't watched "New Police Story" first, I would have screamed.

The theme of this film "Who am I" is also a very interesting point. The discussion on personal identity, combined with the year 1998, must be related to the international events at the time such as the return of Hong Kong. The confusion of this identity runs through the whole film. The movie, I don't know if it also ran through that generation of Hong Kong people.

Why give four stars? Because for me, I still feel that there are too many action scenes...especially the showdown between the roof and the two thugs at the end, which is really sleepy...In the end, I had to fast-forward and skip before watching it.

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  • Fern 2022-04-23 07:03:29

    When I was a child, I liked to ask my father Jackie Chan, Zhou Xingchi, Aaron Kwok who is better at fighting and so on. I seem to have asked a question after watching this movie

  • Amber 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    6/10. Revisit. Explosive Chen Musheng designed the scene of the meteorite fragment explosion at the beginning of the game. The miner who drove the meteorite specimens in the desert accidentally bumped, the whole off-road vehicle turned into an orange mushroom cloud, and even the failure of the scientist’s experiment caused the city’s power supply to short-circuit and the factory exploded. When a large number of employees fled and sparked special effects shots in the hospital garage caught the eye, it almost exploded for explosion. The plot was very out of touch because of the fancy packaging of the scene. The early African tribal-style farewell ceremony was full of civilization and curiosity, and the later narrow lane racing. , The high-altitude crash and the fighting at the top of the building are completely another kind of landscape, state and identity suspense. I think the best thing to watch is that Jackie Chan wears Dutch shoes and fights with the bad guys in a panic. When he escapes, he doesn't forget to step on the other's feet and kick the bad guy's ass with his toes. The scene of the falling white dog licking him is also warm and interesting. Many comments have noticed that Jackie Chan ran up to a high place in a building, shouting "Who am I?" to show that Hong Kong identity is confused. In the end, the bad boss with nowhere to escape and Jackie Chan's move to lose the CD-ROM have also become the return of identity. Post-punish colonial crimes and maintain the emotion of justice in the heart.

Who Am I? quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Morgan: Trust no-one!

  • Morgan's hitman: You've got two choices. Give us the disk and jump off.

    Morgan's Hitman: Or number two, we take the disk and throw you off.

    Who Am I?: I like the third choice: I keep the disk, and I throw you both off.