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The Legend of Drunken Master

He's got a secret weapon with a lot of kick.

1994 · 1h 42m · R Action, Comedy
Directed by Lau Kar-Leung

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Overview

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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84%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Heeere's Jackie, ageless and great, before refitting himself to Western specs.

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

A fleet, enjoyable Jackie Chan romp.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Chan has always seemed like a silent-screen virtuoso self-catapulted into modern times.

Jessica Winter, Village Voice
Fresh

The extended fight scenes [have been] justly hailed by aficionados as classics of the genre.

Joe Leydon, Variety
Fresh

A spectacularly silly comic epic in which almost every known camera trick, stunt and fight choreography known to the genre is squished into one story.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

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