Drunken Master (Zui quan)
Directed by Woo-Ping Yuen
Written by Lung Hsiao and See-Yuen Ng
1978/Hong Kong
IMDb page
First viewing/Amazon Prime rental
Jim Ti-Sam: I’ll break every bone in your body… and send you to hell.
I gave this Jackie Chan kung-fu movie a chance and regretted it.
I’ll be brief. Jackie Chan plays the skilled and hot-headed son of a master in kung fu. He gets in a fight with the wrong person and his father punishes him by putting him under the harsh tulelage of a master in drunken kung-fu. I stopped paying attention about half-way in.
I put this on because I thought it might be amusing given its 7.4/10 IMDb rating. This is a crass slapstick comedy where pratfalls are substituted with cartoonish martial arts face-offs. The fights are almost non-stop and although the moves are meant to be funny as well as impressive, they are also over-the-top violent. Life is really too short.
