646f9e108c After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much martial arts mayhem and mistaken-identity silliness ensue.
This was not only Jackie Chan's directorial debut, but it was also his first production for Raymond Chow's Golden Harvest Films. Chan plays "dragon", a lazy guy that does not want to be schooled in any way. He loses a lion dancing competition to a guy named "tiger" and then is mistaken by authorities for "tiger", who is wanted for a murder that he really didn't commit. "Dragon", of course, finds the real killer, clearing himself and "tiger" in the end. Chan continued his trademark of weaving props into the fight choreography in this film, including a lariat, a workbench, and a folding fan. Chan did his own action/ fight choreography in here and it shows. He moves at a crisp pace, but there are moments where it seems like there are momentary pauses or where the choreography is slightly out of sync. That doesn't prevent one from enjoying the fights. The plot is rather lame,one would expect from most martial arts movies from this period. Chan's humor doesn't always work either; he dresses in drag in this movie in one sequence. The highlights of the movie are the folding fan fight and the climactic fight at the end against Master Kan, which is rather lengthy. ** of 4 stars.
Exiled from his martial arts school, a young man tries to track down his brother, but being mistaken by many for a notorious outlaw along the way derails his quest in this Hong Kong action film written by, directed by and starring Jackie Chan. The movie is incredibly slow to warm up with almost half an hour elapsing before he leaves the martial arts school, but once the film gets going, it rarely lets up. The fight sequences throughout are wildly inventive with Chan incorporating everything from benches to folding fans to ancient pipes into the fights and the choreography is justimpressive. There is a particularly memorable scene in which Chan goes from sitting at a desk to under the desk and back again while try to evade a policeman he is fighting against. The film has several genuinely funny moments too once the mistaken identity theme gets going, with a wash room scene especially standing out. The comedy edge is a little uneven though; most of the initial humour comes from characters being whacked in cartoon-like manners. The jerky camera-work - full of rapid fire zooms in and out - is a little off-putting too; same goes for the melodramatic music score. Chan holds his ownboth a comedian and kung fu master throughout though and eventhe plot starts to turn episodic towards the end, Chan's presence renders the experience endlessly enticing. This is certainly not an action film for all tastes, but watched in the right frame of mind, it is far more entertaining than one might expect from the first half hour alone.

Originally an International Version was distributed outside of Asia that features a heavily butchered version of the movie. More than 16 minutes are missing probably to make the film more interesting for the Western market. Due to a growing DVD market the original HongKong Theatrical Version was released in several countries that got once the International Version only.<br/><br/>It's quite interesting that the International Version does feature material that is missing in the HongKong Theatrical Version.
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