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	In Eagle Shadow Fist "I wish Mike and the 'bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 were around to make fun of this awful film." - Alvin George In Eagle Shadowfist (1971) AKA: Fist of Anger; Not Scared to Die Director: Hdeng Tsu (Zhu Wu) Writer: Su Lan Producer: Hoi Ling Cast: Jackie Chan (Sing Lung), Wang Ching, Lin Xiu Running Time: 85 min. Plot: Martial arts tale set during WW2 with a famous actor of the Chinese theatre leaving the stage to become a resistance fighter against the Japanese. Reviews NUMSKULL'S REVIEW: Let's see here. Multiple alternate titles: check. Evil Japanese invaders incessantly harassing the women and old folks: check. Jackie Chan, before anyone knew who he was: check. Absurdly abundant and even more absurdly fake-looking blood: check. Pitifully small selection of sound effects for fight scenes: check. Yup, sounds like a recipe for crap to me. This is probably the movie that Jackie Chan wishes he could forget more than any other...and perhaps he has, since he's taken so many blows to the head and made so many other shitfests since its completion. Avoid like the cliche...er, the plauge. NUMSKULL'S RATING: 2/10 ALVIN GEORGE'S REVIEW: A stupid '70s movie about actors in China who go up against the Japanese during WWII This film has it all: bad dubbing, grainy filmstock, mediocre fight scenes, and an incredibly lame plot. A young Jackie Chan, wearing a buzz cut, dies about halfway through the movie and I just about died too. In fact, after he died, I didn't watch this movie any further. I wish Mike and the 'bots from "Mystery Science Theater 3000" were around to make fun of this awful film. ALVIN GEORGE'S RATING: 0/10 CODY'S REVIEW: This is one of the films that I have listed as one of Jackie's worst movies. The reasons that I don't like this movie are quite obvious. JACKIE DIES! You will not believe how angry I was when Jackie died in the middle of the film. I felt like whooping the manager of the Blockbuster by my house's ass. Another thing I hate about this film is the plot, which is the usual "Fist of Fury/ I hate Japs" deal. After watching it a second time, I tried to ingnore Jackie dying and consentrated on the film itself, but it still didn't help. The fights are terrible, especially the finale. The chinese renegade and the japanese fighter fight through a mountain, a plain, a jungle, a pond, and finally back to the mountain where the chinese guy sticks his fingers in the japanese's eyes and then throws him down the mountain. Don't go through the horror that I have been through, please don't rent this movie. CODY'S RATING: 0/10 "Jackie, what are you doing?" "Killing Japs!" CROSS'S REVIEW: This movie may have had the best ending of any movie ever made but I don't know because I have didn't finished it. I got the need to slit my wrists to ease the torture of sitting through this piece of shit about ten minutes in. Jackie is only a supporting character and he gets killed half-way through the movie. Jackie was probbably pleading with the director to just kill him already so he could do something more constructive like piss off the triads. CROSS'S RATING: 0.5/10 TYLER'S REVIEW: Well I bought a (get this) a 4-pack of Jackie Chan films that included this film,the pack was called the "Rumble Pack".Why do all these film companies (like Parade) keep adding "rumble" in there synopsis. Well time for the movie review. Eagle Shadow Fist another "I hate Japs" flick , that has Jackie in a "minor role". In fact he gets killed during the end of the film. The movies end is very disturbing, when the Japanese started to slaughter those villagers. The last (with the Japanese Captain and the freedom fighter) fight is a long, predictable, and drawed out process. Down below is what to expect 1. "I (Freedom Fighter) beat up your men, and then you (Japanese Guy) hit me" 2. "You beat me many times" 3. "More beating of me" 4. "And yet another scene of beating me up" 5. "Now we fight in river, where I get beat as well" 6. "I take much beat, now I beat you" 7. "Hah! Now you take beat" 8. "Ow! You beat me" 9. "Now we on top of hill, I jab hand in your eye sockets" 10. "Hah! Now you blind, I kick you down hill" 11. "You dead" 12. The end TYLER'S RATING: 1/10 KISHIGAI'S REVIEW: It was cool that Jackie dies. Doh, didn't mean to spoil the movie. But it's bad. It makes you fall asleep. The only reason to watch it is if your taking the Martial Art style Eagle Shadow Fist and it has the same moves or something. But I thought it was bad. KISHIGAI'S RATING: 2/10 VICTOR NGUYEN'S REVIEW: You know, I always thought that the word "shit" meant excrements coming out of your ass. After watching this film, I finally found out the true meaning of this word. Jackie only makes a 15 minute supporting character role, which really sucks hairy dick!! This movie is so crappy that it is beyond comprehension. It is so crappy that it makes "The Protector" look Oscar worthy. It is so crappy that I would rather spend my time getting together with all the guest reviewers on this page and take turns sandwiching Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp. Heck, I wouldn't mind having the president join in, just as long as I'm not watching this film! It is so crappy that I would rather spend time drinking lighter fluid and stick a match up my ass to see what the effect was! It is so crappy that I would rather go to a Hanson concert, hop on stage, and beat the living crap out of those fags (I might just do that anyway), then spend the next couple of years imprisoned in an LA county jail with a cellmate named Bertha than watch this film. When Jeff mentioned that you should snap this tape appart before putting it in the VCR, he was not kidding!! Stay away from this film! A good use for the tape besides being a paperweight is that it makes a good flaming douche bag filler upper. In case that you haven't got the message, stay away from the film, believe me, you'd rather stick your nose up a horse's ass than watch a film like this. You could trust me on this one. (I know, I'm doing a cheap and very lame Numskull imitation, but it's alot of fun though) VICTOR NGUYEN'S RATING: Just take 0/10, subtract it by the first 10 digit number that comes to your head, and divide it by 2 (This is only because that eye part at the end was cool, but good luck sitting through it til the end) JIM CARREY'S REVIEW: I don't know about ya'll, but this is how Dimension would release this film in the theaters in a land filled with horrible movies: There's never a descent actor around when you need him but when this actor's around, one is all you need - Jackie Chan in his worst movie ever EAGLE SHADOW FIST....Well I'll be fair, we learned 2 things from this picture: We now know the color of blood is a bright neon red and women, children, and the blind can be killed on screen with no remorse - And talk about the actor playing the hero, I'm not crackin' on the guy or anything, but facially, every time I saw him, I felt like saying "It's Howdy Doody Time, It's Howdy Doody Time...". It hurts me to say what I'm about to - The action director for the film was Yuen Cheung-Yan, that's right, the brother of Yuen Wo-Ping, he's even in the movie at the beginning. He plays the head of the Japanese soldiers who march backstage to capture Jackie and Howdy Doody. Even worse, another Yuen Clan member, Yuen Yat-Chor also has a cameo as one of the guys hiding in the bushes who kill Jackie. I can't believe the action director for this piece of crap was the same guy who did the action for "Once Upon A Time In China", "Fire Dragon", "Sword of Many Loves", "King of Beggars", "Operation Pink Force 2" and "Miracle Fighters". Now that I've disclosed this horrible secret I feel my life may be in danger from the Yuen Clan. I'm not scared though, I'll just hire Wang Yu for protection -- after all, I am one who loved Fantasy Mission Force. JIM CARREY'S RATING: 1/10 DANIEL'S REVIEW: I was at my video store seeing which Chan movie I should buy now. I see "Fist of Anger", I figured it was a documentary because it said "Plus an interview of Jackie Chan and go behind the scenes to Mr. Nice Guy." So I bought the movie. I watched it, and there is a movie, not a Doc, so I look on the back and it says "AKA: In Eagle Shadow Fist" So I said to myself, "oh well I'll just fast foward to the behind the scenes and the interview", so I fast foward through the whole movie and there is nothing about any behind the scenes or interviews!!! The only high light of the film is when that guy sticks his hand in the other guys eyes!!!! DANIEL'S RATING: 0.5/10 (a 1/2 point for the eye part!) ANDREW'S REVIEW: Once a friend and I were watching an old James Bond film with lousy acting, stupid gags, and a really stupid plot. Every five minutes he would shout out "THIS JAMES BOND SUCKS!" Six months later I got my hands on this film, and watched it with my friend. His reaction was exactly the same- "THIS JACKIE CHAN SUCKS!" Other comments included "They were learning how to use fake blood in this one" and "stupid". I really can't explain it, all I know is that this film fails to entertain on any level. There's no comedy, the acting was a tragedy, and the fighting scenes were all pathetic, usually consisting of one guy pounding on another guy's chest once and watching him die. There was one cool camera trick where a solid object looked liquid when it was out of focus. That was the only entertaining clip in the entire film. ANDREW'S RATING: 0/10 SUPERFLY'S REVIEW: I bought this one along with 36 Crazy Fists in the Jacky Chan Rumble Pack round 1. Don't buy this, and don't read the lies on the back! I 've e-mailed PPI Entertainment about this, meanwhile stay away from them. Oh yeah, the movie, Well, Chan is a tag along to the main character (who I've never seen in my life) With his head shaved and his bad sense of humor you're almost glad he dies in the middle. The fight is OK in some parts, and its really funny to see the main character dump a woman off a cart and then totally disrespect her. I won't repeat what he said. The last fight is long and seems as if the "good-guy" is gonna lose, until HE GOUGES OUT THE BAD GUYS EYE WITH A FINGER!!! How dishonorable!!! From there on out he whoops up until they throw the dummy off the cliff. Kinda fun to watch the crap Kung-fu "classics"! SUPERFLY'S RATING: 2/10

In Eagle Shadow Fist

"I wish Mike and the 'bots from Mystery Science Theater 3000 were around to make fun of this awful film."

- Alvin George

In Eagle Shadowfist (1971)

AKA: Fist of Anger; Not Scared to Die

Director: Hdeng Tsu (Zhu Wu)

Writer: Su Lan

Producer: Hoi Ling

Cast: Jackie Chan (Sing Lung), Wang Ching, Lin Xiu

Running Time: 85 min.

Plot: Martial arts tale set during WW2 with a famous actor of the Chinese theatre leaving the stage to become a resistance fighter against the Japanese.

Reviews

NUMSKULL'S REVIEW: Let's see here. Multiple alternate titles: check. Evil Japanese invaders incessantly harassing the women and old folks: check. Jackie Chan, before anyone knew who he was: check. Absurdly abundant and even more absurdly fake-looking blood: check. Pitifully small selection of sound effects for fight scenes: check.

Yup, sounds like a recipe for crap to me. This is probably the movie that Jackie Chan wishes he could forget more than any other...and perhaps he has, since he's taken so many blows to the head and made so many other shitfests since its completion. Avoid like the cliche...er, the plauge.

NUMSKULL'S RATING: 2/10

ALVIN GEORGE'S REVIEW: A stupid '70s movie about actors in China who go up against the Japanese during WWII This film has it all: bad dubbing, grainy filmstock, mediocre fight scenes, and an incredibly lame plot. A young Jackie Chan, wearing a buzz cut, dies about halfway through the movie and I just about died too. In fact, after he died, I didn't watch this movie any further. I wish Mike and the 'bots from "Mystery Science Theater 3000" were around to make fun of this awful film.

ALVIN GEORGE'S RATING: 0/10

CODY'S REVIEW: This is one of the films that I have listed as one of Jackie's worst movies. The reasons that I don't like this movie are quite obvious. JACKIE DIES! You will not believe how angry I was when Jackie died in the middle of the film. I felt like whooping the manager of the Blockbuster by my house's ass. Another thing I hate about this film is the plot, which is the usual "Fist of Fury/ I hate Japs" deal.

After watching it a second time, I tried to ingnore Jackie dying and consentrated on the film itself, but it still didn't help. The fights are terrible, especially the finale. The chinese renegade and the japanese fighter fight through a mountain, a plain, a jungle, a pond, and finally back to the mountain where the chinese guy sticks his fingers in the japanese's eyes and then throws him down the mountain.

Don't go through the horror that I have been through, please don't rent this movie.

CODY'S RATING: 0/10 "Jackie, what are you doing?" "Killing Japs!"

CROSS'S REVIEW: This movie may have had the best ending of any movie ever made but I don't know because I have didn't finished it. I got the need to slit my wrists to ease the torture of sitting through this piece of shit about ten minutes in. Jackie is only a supporting character and he gets killed half-way through the movie. Jackie was probbably pleading with the director to just kill him already so he could do something more constructive like piss off the triads.

CROSS'S RATING: 0.5/10

TYLER'S REVIEW: Well I bought a (get this) a 4-pack of Jackie Chan films that included this film,the pack was called the "Rumble Pack".Why do all these film companies (like Parade) keep adding "rumble" in there synopsis. Well time for the movie review. Eagle Shadow Fist another "I hate Japs" flick , that has Jackie in a "minor role". In fact he gets killed during the end of the film. The movies end is very disturbing, when the Japanese started to slaughter those villagers. The last (with the Japanese Captain and the freedom fighter) fight is a long, predictable, and drawed out process. Down below is what to expect

1. "I (Freedom Fighter) beat up your men, and then you (Japanese Guy) hit me"
2. "You beat me many times"
3. "More beating of me"
4. "And yet another scene of beating me up"
5. "Now we fight in river, where I get beat as well"
6. "I take much beat, now I beat you"
7. "Hah! Now you take beat"
8. "Ow! You beat me"
9. "Now we on top of hill, I jab hand in your eye sockets"
10. "Hah! Now you blind, I kick you down hill"
11. "You dead"
12. The end

TYLER'S RATING: 1/10

KISHIGAI'S REVIEW: It was cool that Jackie dies. Doh, didn't mean to spoil the movie. But it's bad. It makes you fall asleep. The only reason to watch it is if your taking the Martial Art style Eagle Shadow Fist and it has the same moves or something. But I thought it was bad.

KISHIGAI'S RATING: 2/10

VICTOR NGUYEN'S REVIEW: You know, I always thought that the word "shit" meant excrements coming out of your ass. After watching this film, I finally found out the true meaning of this word. Jackie only makes a 15 minute supporting character role, which really sucks hairy dick!! This movie is so crappy that it is beyond comprehension. It is so crappy that it makes "The Protector" look Oscar worthy. It is so crappy that I would rather spend my time getting together with all the guest reviewers on this page and take turns sandwiching Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp. Heck, I wouldn't mind having the president join in, just as long as I'm not watching this film! It is so crappy that I would rather spend time drinking lighter fluid and stick a match up my ass to see what the effect was! It is so crappy that I would rather go to a Hanson concert, hop on stage, and beat the living crap out of those fags (I might just do that anyway), then spend the next couple of years imprisoned in an LA county jail with a cellmate named Bertha than watch this film. When Jeff mentioned that you should snap this tape appart before putting it in the VCR, he was not kidding!! Stay away from this film! A good use for the tape besides being a paperweight is that it makes a good flaming douche bag filler upper. In case that you haven't got the message, stay away from the film, believe me, you'd rather stick your nose up a horse's ass than watch a film like this. You could trust me on this one. (I know, I'm doing a cheap and very lame Numskull imitation, but it's alot of fun though)

VICTOR NGUYEN'S RATING: Just take 0/10, subtract it by the first 10 digit number that comes to your head, and divide it by 2 (This is only because that eye part at the end was cool, but good luck sitting through it til the end)

JIM CARREY'S REVIEW: I don't know about ya'll, but this is how Dimension would release this film in the theaters in a land filled with horrible movies: There's never a descent actor around when you need him but when this actor's around, one is all you need - Jackie Chan in his worst movie ever EAGLE SHADOW FIST....Well I'll be fair, we learned 2 things from this picture: We now know the color of blood is a bright neon red and women, children, and the blind can be killed on screen with no remorse - And talk about the actor playing the hero, I'm not crackin' on the guy or anything, but facially, every time I saw him, I felt like saying "It's Howdy Doody Time, It's Howdy Doody Time...". It hurts me to say what I'm about to - The action director for the film was Yuen Cheung-Yan, that's right, the brother of Yuen Wo-Ping, he's even in the movie at the beginning. He plays the head of the Japanese soldiers who march backstage to capture Jackie and Howdy Doody. Even worse, another Yuen Clan member, Yuen Yat-Chor also has a cameo as one of the guys hiding in the bushes who kill Jackie. I can't believe the action director for this piece of crap was the same guy who did the action for "Once Upon A Time In China", "Fire Dragon", "Sword of Many Loves", "King of Beggars", "Operation Pink Force 2" and "Miracle Fighters". Now that I've disclosed this horrible secret I feel my life may be in danger from the Yuen Clan. I'm not scared though, I'll just hire Wang Yu for protection -- after all, I am one who loved Fantasy Mission Force.

JIM CARREY'S RATING: 1/10

DANIEL'S REVIEW: I was at my video store seeing which Chan movie I should buy now. I see "Fist of Anger", I figured it was a documentary because it said "Plus an interview of Jackie Chan and go behind the scenes to Mr. Nice Guy." So I bought the movie. I watched it, and there is a movie, not a Doc, so I look on the back and it says "AKA: In Eagle Shadow Fist" So I said to myself, "oh well I'll just fast foward to the behind the scenes and the interview", so I fast foward through the whole movie and there is nothing about any behind the scenes or interviews!!! The only high light of the film is when that guy sticks his hand in the other guys eyes!!!!

DANIEL'S RATING: 0.5/10 (a 1/2 point for the eye part!)

ANDREW'S REVIEW: Once a friend and I were watching an old James Bond film with lousy acting, stupid gags, and a really stupid plot. Every five minutes he would shout out "THIS JAMES BOND SUCKS!" Six months later I got my hands on this film, and watched it with my friend. His reaction was exactly the same- "THIS JACKIE CHAN SUCKS!" Other comments included "They were learning how to use fake blood in this one" and "stupid". I really can't explain it, all I know is that this film fails to entertain on any level. There's no comedy, the acting was a tragedy, and the fighting scenes were all pathetic, usually consisting of one guy pounding on another guy's chest once and watching him die. There was one cool camera trick where a solid object looked liquid when it was out of focus. That was the only entertaining clip in the entire film.

ANDREW'S RATING: 0/10

SUPERFLY'S REVIEW: I bought this one along with 36 Crazy Fists in the Jacky Chan Rumble Pack round 1. Don't buy this, and don't read the lies on the back! I 've e-mailed PPI Entertainment about this, meanwhile stay away from them. Oh yeah, the movie, Well, Chan is a tag along to the main character (who I've never seen in my life) With his head shaved and his bad sense of humor you're almost glad he dies in the middle. The fight is OK in some parts, and its really funny to see the main character dump a woman off a cart and then totally disrespect her. I won't repeat what he said. The last fight is long and seems as if the "good-guy" is gonna lose, until HE GOUGES OUT THE BAD GUYS EYE WITH A FINGER!!! How dishonorable!!! From there on out he whoops up until they throw the dummy off the cliff. Kinda fun to watch the crap Kung-fu "classics"!

SUPERFLY'S RATING: 2/10