Jackie Chan's American movies

I enjoyed Shanghai Noon more than Rush Hour. I watched The Medallion on a bus in Laos and fell asleep.

No Rumble in the Bronx? That's the first Jackie Chan movie I ever saw.

ya, no rumble in the bronx, no credibility!

Rumble in the Bronx wasn't American, I don't think. It was HK and then Miramax bought the rights to re-release it here.

Anyway the answer is probably the Big Brawl. This list really demonstrates how poorly he's been served by Hollywood (well I guess he got rich.)

Rumble in the Bronx takes place in America, most of the actors are American, and the language is English, I'd say that's pretty "American".

rumble in the bronx doesn't count, it wasn't one of chan's american productions, which is i think what it's being limited to here.

Your definition of "American" may differ to etc etc etc

i love how the "bronx" of rumble in the bronx has british columbian mountains in the background

^ beat me to it.

Anyway, shanghai noon

"Rumble in the Bronx takes place in America, most of the actors are American, and the language is English, I'd say that's pretty "American"."

The middle third of that is probably not true. And the production was not American therefore it is not American.

If this was just best Jackie Chan movie, I think I would have voted A Police Story

The middle third of that is probably not true. And the production was not American therefore it is not American.

Does that mean Blade Runner isn't an American movie then? After all, it was produced by a Hong Kong company, directed by an Englishman, and the second lead is from the Netherlands.

Deeley secured $21.5 million in financing through a three way deal between The Ladd Company (through Warner Bros.), the Hong Kong-based producer Sir Run Run Shaw, and Tandem Productions.

Warner Bros. = Hollywood = American Movie

Rumble in the Bronx (紅番區; Hong faan kui in Cantonese) is a 1995 Hong Kong martial arts-action film starring Jackie Chan and Anita Mui.

Released in the US in 1996, Rumble in the Bronx had a successful theater run, and brought Chan into the American mainstream. Rumble in the Bronx is set in the Bronx area of New York City but was filmed in and around Vancouver.

there should be a poll about which city is the worst fake nyc on film

vancouver vs toronto vs los angeles

But IMDb says Rumble in the Bronx was co-produced by New Line Cinema, an American company, just like Blade Runner was co-produced by Shaw Brothers, a Hong Kong company. And if being shot in Canada means a movie isn't American, then there are quite a few Hollywood movies taking place in America that aren't American.

"Does that mean Blade Runner isn't an American movie then? After all, it was produced by a Hong Kong company, directed by an Englishman, and the second lead is from the Netherlands."

That is the worst logic ever.

Exactly, I was only using it as a counter-argument for the argument that Rumble in the Bronx isn't an American movie.

pretty sure new line just picked it up after it had been made, don't think they had any input in the production. imdb will often put distributors and even home video companies in the the producers column

It was a Hong Kong production ergo it was a Hong Kong movie. Being picked up after it was produced by an American distributor has squat to do with anything.

Okay, is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon an American movie then? It was funded by Hollywood and directed by a Hollywood director who's also an American citizen.

from a nytimes article in 2000

WHEN Stanley Tong left his hometown for Hollywood in 1996, Hong Kong's film industry was headed for a crack-up as spectacular as anything in a Jackie Chan movie.

Box office revenue was plummeting, scripts were threadbare and rampant piracy was driving a whole generation of movie-watchers away from theaters. Demoralized by the grinding pace and stultifying atmosphere of Hong Kong, local filmmakers fled this former British colony faster than the British themselves.

Mr. Tong, a 40-year-old former stuntman who directed Mr. Chan in hyper-kinetic Hong Kong action films like ''Rumble in the Bronx'' (1996) and ''Police Story III: Supercop'' (1992), did not easily find success in the United States. His first American film, ''Mr. Magoo,' (1997) a $30 million Disney remake of the 1960's cartoon about a crotchety, near-sighted old goof, left audiences as befuddled as its hapless hero.

Now, Mr. Tong has returned to Hong Kong and is back on familiar ground -- shooting an action film about the Chinese police busting a smuggling ring.

''I went to America because I wanted to learn how to make Hollywood movies,'' Mr. Tong said. ''But I always wanted to come back to where I grew up. I want to make Chinese films for an international audience.''

"Okay, is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon an American movie then? It was funded by Hollywood and directed by a Hollywood director who's also an American citizen."

Tuomas shut up.

crouching tiger was an international co-production, so i guess you could see it as partly american if that's important to you
Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

I think I liked The Protector when I saw it, it's a James Glickenhaus flick so it's got that going for it. I'm voting for the first Rush Hour tho cos it's a lot of fun and not getting enough love on here.

Fuck it, I was mixing The Protector up with Jackie Chan's First Strike. That's a good one.

(new police story) - I meant to say that

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oooooooooooooh.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spy_next_door/

Finally got 2 "fresh" reviews! WAY TO RUIN THE PERFECT SCORE

I must have forgotten to vote for the Big Brawl.

Jackie is approaching De Niro/Pacino levels of legacy trashing.

(not that I've seen anything since Shanghai Noon)

To be fair though once his physical gifts faded with ages it's hard to imagine what he was going to do that wasn't going to tarnish that legacy. Most of these films are really awful though.

I guess I'm sort of glad he's making some money out of all this.

The Forbidden Kingdom was actually a pretty good movie. Not essential -- the story was a bit dull for kung fu fantasy in places, but some nice visual moments.

but um Karate Kid remake should shoot to the top of this list.

Oh man, the snark, it burns:

http://mobile.avclub.com/articles/rush-hour-4-aims-to-return-the-series-to-the-gritt,83117/?mobile=true