Rating: 4 out of 5
Director: Jackie Chan
Year: 1979
Plot:
“The Fearless Hyena” was also released as “Revenge of the
Dragon”, “Superfighter 3”, and “The Shadowman”. The movie also spawned a
sequel, but for the moment, let’s concentrate on the story at hand. Our main
hero, played by Jackie Chan, trains in kung fu by his grandfather, but he doesn’t
take it too serious. He starts fights, and does other tomfoolery, he eventually
lands a job training students, but finds himself in the crosshair of an evil
kung fu master. When that master kills his grandfather, it’s up to our hero to
seek revenge, and learns a new style of kung fu to take on the evil master.
There’s a great deal of comedy in this one, alongside rigorous training, but at
the heart of the film is a revenge plot.
Thoughts:
Jackie Chan makes his directorial debut with “The Fearless
Hyena”, and it’s a good overall film. The quality of the transfer that I saw
was good, and while it wasn’t high definition, it still had a lot of good
editing and dubbing. The story is comedic at times, with Jackie Chan doing a
great deal of acrobatics, getting into brawls with random thugs. Things get
serous in the third act, as Chan’s character fights back against those that caused
the death of his grandfather. There’s a good bit of story, good amount of
fighting, and great comedy from Chan, including dressing in drag at one point.
Overall, Jackie Chan’s direction and kung fu style is great.
It features a great deal of story to build up towards the ultimate end. There’s
some great kung fu mixed with comedy, and da story that is easy to follow and
not bad at all. This is one good piece of film making, with classic comedy from
Chan and great kung fu overall. I give this one a rating of 4 out of 5.
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