Dragons Forever
by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Corey Yuen
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Biao Yuen, Deannie Yip, Jackie Chan, Pauline Yeung, Sammo Hung Kam-BoDirector: Corey Yuen, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Editor: Joseph Chiang
Producer: Leonard Ho
Producer: Raymond Chow
Writer: Cheuk-Hon Szeto
Writer: Gordon Chan
Writer: Yiu Ming Leung
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); Vietnamese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); Cantonese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Mandarin Chinese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-01-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Dragons Forever
Movie Review: I Say it Deserves a 4, But what the Heck! This Movie's Great
Summary: 5 Stars
The reason I think this movie deserves a four star rating over a five star rating is simply because of the scenes with all three brothers; there just aren't enough! I LOVED how they played the three heroes that worked together in Project A, but here, their working together is constantly shrouded by their innabilities to cope with one another; mostly Sammo's and Yuen's characters'. In fact, the only time that you see the three fight a fight together is between each other! Personally, I didn't much care for the bar fight, for it seemed rather randomly placed, as well as hard to follow.Anyone who has seen these three men knows that they are all martial arts masters! When the three of them fight each other brutally outside of Ling's house, while the scene was only about a minute in length, it was one of the best martial arts scenes I've seen yet. The end fight scenes were masterly done as well. The fight with Sammo Hung trapped in the factory was quite good, and then the one where Jackie Chan and Yuen Baio come to find Sammo Hung was incredible. Especially the fight between Jackie Chan and Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. I'm sure you've heard about the two famous fights between Jackie and Benny; they're both considered legendary, and I say that they are every bit worthy of being so.
Under this action, however, is still an enjoyable movie. No matter how predictable I found Jackie's big question in the end court scene to be, I still loved the scene throughout. I also liked how Yuen Baio was clearly mentally disturbed, yet as we see him, we find out it isn't a disturbance of mind in a bad way necessarily. True, Yuen Baio is the weakest actor of the three, which is why I think he was the most seldom seen in their six movies together, but he least could handle almost all of what he did. The scary bits were creepy, the happy scenes sure were bright and cheery, and the main villain was one to hate all right!
All in all, I can't think of any other way to end this review than saying: This movie, while not beyond belief, is still very enjoyable and adrenaline pumping!
Summary of Dragons Forever
A fitfully amazing, frequently disheartening hodgepodge of action, farce, and romance, slapped together as a costarring vehicle for three of Hong Kong's major movie stars: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung (who also directed), and Yuen Biao. Its light-footed, try-anything spirit makes it consistently enjoyable, but these wonderful performers are working (to put it kindly) beneath their gifts. Chan plays a womanizing attorney who recruits arms-dealer Hung and madcap inventor Biao to dig up dirt on the corporate sleaze balls he's supposedly defending--industrial polluters (and heroin smugglers) whose effluents threaten the bucolic fish farm of a handsome widow woman. The trio doesn't have many collective scenes, so their Three Musketeers act never really gets off the ground. As always, the fights and stunt work are mind-boggling; the jaunty details are fun: Chan's flick-of-the-wrist trick with a fancy briefcase; Hung's deft run- through of a few choice Cantonese opera moves; and Yuen Biao's Olympic-level acrobatics on, around, and within an industrial steel-tube staircase. --David Chute
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