PATREON PREVIEW: The Worst Jackie Chan Films (Ft. Panda Plan 2)
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Me and Will, we're going to fight this out. Let's pick the top five non-English Jackie Chan films. Top five worst. Worst. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. I'm just thinking of Jackie. I'm like, he never made bad movies. I mean, yeah, Drunken Master 2, Police Story, Project Day, what do you want? Yeah. Okay, the worst, yes, that we've seen. And the thing is you say non-American, but it's so funny, we've lived long enough that, do you remember back in the 90s and the early 2000s, we'd be reading about it? And they'd be like, oh, the protector, that's the bad one. Yeah, or, uh, Thunderbolt. Terrible. I would, I would watch the protector 10 times in a row before I watch this one again. The protective fucking rules. Projector's great. Yeah. All those early low-way movies, I was sitting- fucking show me Shalien what's meant over this. Show me to kill with intrigue. There's craft in those movies. Yeah, there is. This is nothing. Like New Fist of Fury. It's boring as hell, but it's better than this. Sorry, I'm showing you what is the long version of New Fifth Street. It's like two hours plus. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah. Nothing. Like New Fist of Fury. It's boring as hell, but it's better than this. Well, sorry. I'm showing you what is the long version of New Fist's like two hours plus. Yeah, that one might be. Okay, so the worst Chinese or non-American Jackie Chan. All right, I'm gonna go jump right ahead. A myth. A myth, yeah. It's so easy to be like all the Stately Tong movies that he did post Supercop because they're dog shit. Vanguard. Awful. He's barely in it. He doesn't do any fights in that, I don't think. Just holding a gun the entire time. Okay, so that's two. Vanguard and a myth. And I think, I think it's... Is Vanguard the one that on the cover is like a lion behind him and he's like, oh, or is that? |
| 1:42.9 | It's the one where it's like Jackie sort of leads Team China World Police. Yes, exactly, yeah. I think that's the one was the line. Maybe that's the one that's the Indian co-production. Yeah, Kung Fu Yoga has the line. Kung Fu Yoga, I don't think I'm going to name it in this list. No, it's not in the top five. Yeah, or bottom five. The top of the bottom five. |
| 1:46.1 | Panda plan two. |
| 1:47.3 | A myth. in this list. No, it's not in the top five. Yeah, or bottom five. So the top of the bottom five, Panda Plan 2, a myth, Vanguard. And now I think the one that he did in Russia with Arnold Schwarzenegger, what was that called again? That's not a real Jackie film. He just cameos in that. It's a V2. Okay, listen, I'm putting it here. |
| 2:01.3 | Because then you can do Twins Effect 2. Yeah, okay. It's got to be a... It's got to be a starring Jackie Chez. He's in a lot of that movie. I think he's only in one major scene of that film. Okay. You know what? Fine. We have a lot we can choose from. Yeah. So after that... Are you going to go like for the classy like 1911, for example? |
| 2:19.0 | Oh, okay, classy like 1911 for |
| 2:18.7 | example oh okay yeah 1911 yeah because when I'm thinking what Jackie movies would I not want to |
| 2:25.8 | watch again yes that's what I'm when I say bad I'm like the ones that you would get no enjoyment |
| 2:30.6 | from watching again I think there are ones like this movie where the craft is worse. |
| 2:35.0 | Yeah. But 1911 has, it's so dry. And it's barely a, it's not, he's in it, it's barely a Jackie Chan film. Do you remember, you probably didn't see this, but like, Premier Asia, that company that was like, a spin off of Hong Kong legends did a two-disc special edition of 1911. They're like, you, you hogs, you idiots, by this movie. I mean, if I found that used, I'd get it. Well, it's a UK edition, so you'd have to go for it. I bet the extras. I'm sure there's tons of them. So now, just before we pick our fifth one, let's just as a thought experiment, say, is there anything before the year a proper Jackie vehicle? So not- So let's talk about the ones that people back in our day used to think were the bad ones. Fantasy Mission Force. I mean, that's a, we don't need to talk about that. That's a five, top five best one. City Hunter, people would say it's bad. Oh, wrong, wrong, five stars. Even crime story. |
| 3:26.0 | Remember people would be like, |
| 3:28.6 | it's not a real Jackie Chan film, so it's bad. |
| 3:29.9 | And it's like, get out of here. |
| 3:32.4 | Okay, well, now let's consider the early low-way ones. |
| 3:32.8 | They're bad. |
| 3:33.7 | Yeah, okay. |
| 3:35.9 | So, because I don't love those movies. |
| 3:38.2 | Although some of them, I think spiritual kung fu is fun. |
| 3:40.6 | Well, that one is the closest spiritual kung fu to the comedic Jackie Chan. |
| 3:42.3 | I mean, half a loaf of kung fu. Yeah, she's co-directing as well. He's finding his style. You know, New Fist of Fury. It's boring, yeah. But is it the top five worse? Remember what you said at the beginning is like, let's think about it as movies that if you had to reach for it, I don't want to touch that one. |
| 3:57.0 | I could see myself reaching for Newfist of Fury at some point, you know? |
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