A young
reckless fighter becomes the drunken master.
Jackie Chan
has been there for such a long time that we tend to forget his beginnings and
how much, of the stuff that he does, he practically created himself.
“Drunken
master” is a 1978 movie and for many of us who knows Jackie Chan only from the
stuff he made after his break trough in the west it’ll come as a huge surprise.
First of
all young Jackie Chan is insanely ripped and incredibly athletic. The stuns
from a random five minutes of this movie could be the centerpiece of any modern
action feature. It’s really incredible how he causally does awesome stuff.
This movie
is also somewhat more accessible than the rest of his Honk Kong production. The
humor is all based on physicality so there is no language and cultural barrier.
Speaking of the humor the movie is absolutely hilarious, it popularized the
concept of the martial arts comedy, another Jackie Chan invention by the way,
and it never misses a beat.
The fight
and all the stuns are incredible. Most of them have never been surpassed and
probably, in this age of increasing reliance on CGI, never will be.
Conclusion:
Maybe it is a little bit too martial arts for somebody but if you got at least
a funny bone in your body or enjoy some insane stuns this movie is the
masterpiece you’ve been waiting for.
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