From the action comedy "Flying Tiger on the Railway" to the science fiction film "Blood of the Machine" to the fantasy comedy "Detective Pu Songling", all of them have suffered double Waterloo's misery in word of mouth and box office.
However, it is also a New Year's Eve, but the film "Who Am I" is a double harvest of word-of-mouth and box office. It once rushed to No. 2 in the Hong Kong movie box office rankings, and was rated as Jackie Chan's classic by netizens.
"Who Am I" is an action comedy co-directed by Chen Musheng and Jackie Chan, starring Jackie Chan, Fara Miho, and Yamamoto Miku. It tells the story of the CIA sending special commando Jack and other members to South Africa for the exclusive meteorite. The plane crash caused Jack to lose his memory, which put him into various difficulties. Jack, played by Jackie Chan, went to South Africa with his team to kidnap the scientist responsible for the comet research project. After completing the mission, the CIA traitor Morgan crossed the river and demolished the bridge in an attempt to kill people in a plane crash.
Fortunately, Jack fell from a high altitude and was rescued by the local natives, but all the other team members lost their lives.
suffered a severe head injury, lost his memory and forgot his identity. Whenever Jack asked me who I was, I was mistaken for his name by the natives. After his body recovered almost, Jack left the tribe and embarked on a journey to find his identity.
On the road, Jack happened to encounter a troubled racer brother and sister. His brother was bitten by a poisonous snake and his sister Yuki was helpless.
Jack received special training in the army. He used herbs to relieve snake venom for his brother, and used coconut to hang glucose. These first aid measures temporarily saved his brother's life.
In order to send his brother back to the end point for treatment as soon as possible, the two have a division of labor. Jack is responsible for driving and Yuki is responsible for checking the map. Under
accidentally hit, Jack won the racing championship, became famous in one fell swoop, and appeared on the cover of newspapers. At the same time, it also attracted the attention of the CIA and the South African Police Department.
After CIA Morgan confirmed that Jack had lost his memory, he pretended to appease him, while secretly sending a killer to kill again.
The South African Police Department learned that Jack and others had kidnapped a local scientist and conducted a secret interrogation on him.
Jack took advantage of the situation and fled back to the hotel, but met the killer sent by Morgan. While fleeing, I met reporters who were entangled in him and Yuki passing by.
So, the three began a thrilling escape. After
succeeded in getting rid of the unknown killer and the mysterious policeman, Jack again had doubts about his identity.
Later, after a reporter who was good at solving puzzles cracked a set of mysterious numbers recorded on the note that Jack carried with him, he learned that it was the name of a company in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Jack suspected that the company might know his identity, so he flew to Rotterdam with a female reporter to find his true identity. After
arrived in Rotterdam, Jack called Morgan, hoping that he could support him in this adventure. Unexpectedly, his phone was tapped by a female reporter. After calling
, he was chased by the killer. Jack didn't believe it anymore, whether it was Morgan or the female reporter, so he went to the enemy's headquarters alone.
He followed the garbage passage to the conference room and heard that the CIA executives were negotiating with the arms dealer. They want to use the meteorite formula to transform the pistol into a weapon with powerful lethality and make huge profits from it.
Jack took advantage of the fact that they were unprepared and stole the CD-ROM containing the formula data, and when he fled to the top floor, he was again besieged by the killer.
was helpless, Jack could only jump from the 70-meter-high building. This jump of
is known as the "leap of faith" and was also named "the most dangerous action in the world" by the Guinness Book of World Records.
In order to shoot this classic shot, Jackie Chan needs to jump down from the top floor and dash down along the slope of the building. When he reaches the edge below, his feet must just stop, then he smashes the glass behind him and jumps into the building. inside. When shooting
, considering that the slope of the building was too long, tying the rope to Jackie Chan might strangle his neck. Therefore, Jackie Chan completed this life-threatening action almost without security. In order to support Jackie Chan's filming, the local government not only closed roads and bridges, but also provided free military support.
The right time and place and the "leap of faith" created toNo one broke today.
is also because the movie "Who Am I" is extremely exciting, the box office of this movie is as high as 38.85 million, you know, this is the end of the last century, although it is slightly worse than the 41.35 million box office of "The Heroes of the Wind" starring Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok It's a pity, but it's also a great work.
However, compared with Jackie Chan's desperate search for truth in his early days, recent works can be described as seriously distorted. The watershed of
was after the "Chinese Zodiac" in 2012. Since then, the movies have been ridiculed by the crowd: the laugh is boring, the plot is cliché, and the preaching is rigid.
And the media always uses "Jackie Chan's last film" as a gimmick, allowing the audience to take advantage of their excitement and come back in despair, constantly overdrawing fans' expectations for Jackie Chan's works.
Even if Jackie Chan's new films are released one after another, it is hard to escape the fate of a cliff of reputation.
has to admit that Jackie Chan is really old, and the era of the king of kung fu is gone forever
