Jackie Chan's Who Am I?
by Jackie Chan, Benny Chan
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Actor: Ed Nelson, Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto, Ron SmerczakDirector: Benny Chan, Jackie Chan
Brand: Ff
Writer: Jackie Chan
Producer: Barbie Tung
Producer: Bas van der Ree
Producer: Johnny Lee
Writer: Lee Reynolds
Writer: Susan Chan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Cantonese (Parallel); English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitles For Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Original film as in Asian theaters
- Original film soundtrack - not the new inferior track
- English subtitles
Movie Reviews of Jackie Chan's Who Am I?
Movie Review: I'm loving it
Summary: 5 Stars
I think it's great- it's the most recent of Jackie's films that I truly enjoy watching over & over again.
Highlights here for me...
- Jackie fixing a rally car as a South African native.
- Jackie escaping an interrogation in handcuffs.
- White Mitsubishi car chase with 2 beautiful sidekicks.
- Every fight & stunt on location in Netherlands' Rotterdam.
The film's well-deserved claim to fame is the last, long fight scene atop a stylish-looking skyscraper, where Jackie takes on 2 opponents & then slides down the steep exterior of the building itself (!). This fight choreography & stuntwork is as impressive to me as in Jackie's earlier films. Chan physically does things here that most young actors can only dream about. The various acting performances in this film may be really stiff, but the action scenes are high in quality. And the visual look & design of all the settings & scenes is also reasonably impressive. The entire movie has a pretty big-budget look to it in comparison to Jackie's earlier 80's & early 90's works. Visually-speaking, I easily consider this to be among Jackie's more impressive releases.
Interesting tid-bits of information...
- Jackie's hotel room in this is 1954, the year of his birth.
- This American release has been cut & edited, which I personally don't mind, but it's worth considering.
- Originally filmed in early '97, Jackie was just about to turn 43 at the time. The movie was released in 1998.
- Two scenes are reminiscent of Jackie's first Project A movie in 1983. In both films, Jackie has to escape bad guys while in handcuffs, and in both films there's a dangerous stunt involving the possibility of falling from an imposing height. In Project A, that would be the famous clock tower stunt.
- Somewhat funny use of stunt doubles here on at least 2 occasions throughout the long ending sequence. In the first, Jackie's white opponent during the skyscraper fight is seen briefly from behind sporting a very obvious asian-looking hairstyle. In the second, the female doing the spin kick at the very end of the movie is actually a male stuntman in drag. This is not the first Jackie film to do this so blatantly. I recently noticed the exact same thing while watching Wheels on Meals circa 1984, wherein a white actor who is supposed to be a skilled fencer is briefly replaced with an asian double, with little effort to conceal the switch visually. In every case it's a bit jarring & funny, and it's not really a criticism on my part, just merely an observation.
Summary of Jackie Chan's Who Am I?
Left for dead after a brutal CIA double-cross, a lone commando must struggle to regain his memory and expose an international espionage ring before they can unleash a powerful and lethal new energy source.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 12/11/01
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
Shot in English and budgeted higher than any of his previous Asian features, Jackie Chan's last film under his Hong Kong contract is an action-packed globe-trotting adventure shot with the American audience in mind. The spies and secret agent-laden plot is packed with car chases, explosions, gunfire aplenty, and of course Jackie's own brand of gymnastic martial arts. But the flood of his older films between his hits Rumble in the Bronx and Rush Hour had sated American viewers and Who Am I? wound up being sold directly to cable. It's our loss, for this mix of goofy slapstick and jaw-dropping action is his most impressive film since Drunken Master II. Playing a special forces agent (named, naturally, Jackie) struck with amnesia and adopted by an African bush tribe following a failed assassination attempt, he embarks on a quest to discover his true identity while armies of killers pour after him. After an explosive opening, the story gets momentarily bogged down in the kind of mugging humor that leaves most American audiences scratching their heads, but once Jackie kicks into gear the film is a high-speed action flurry that culminates in a furious battle atop a Rotterdam skyscraper. Jackie is at his most charmingly naive (he berates the villains, pleading "Why do you want to destroy when you can make things better?") and athletically impressive: the marvelous stunts--including a flight down the side of the skyscraper--and fight choreography make Rush Hour look like a Sunday drive. --Sean Axmaker
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