Drunken Master: Jui kuen (1978)

Not to be confused with the American "sequel" The Legend of Drunken Master. This original Jackie Chan Hong Kong film came out 16 years before the sequel. Let's start by saying that the American version I gave a 7/10 and this one not good at all. Yet again an Action 101 film that seems to need a certain percentage of originals and foreign language films.

I read the imdb synopsis and I don't think I watched the same film as the writer. The film is about an immature boy who disgraces his father by harassing young women and acting up in school. His dad constantly punishes him but he constantly cheats his way out of punishments, so he sends him off to learn martial arts from his brother. An interesting man who looks like a drifter and is always drunk, he spends a year teaching him the art of drunken boxing.

Chan is an immature 24 year old actor, and if you didn't know him now you would find the acting very bad. I didn't find it to be much of a comedy and prefer many other Chan movies over this one. It may look like a cool, older Chan film but I didn't think it was.

Vote: 4/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080179/

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