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1973 "Young Tiger"
3.6| 1h24m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 26 April 1973 Released
Producted By: Great Earth Film Company
Country: Hong Kong
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Revenue: 0
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Incriminating evidence against a gang is left in a cab when a gang member dies in it. The gang chases the innocent cab driver, who receives help from the dead gangster's sister - a tough police woman.

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Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Tweekums This film is decent enough 'bargain-bin' entertainment if you ignore the misleading description. It was clearly made before Jackie Chan became well known; he plays one of the villains and is far from being the main character… that doesn't stop his name appearing in large letter on the box along with his picture! This unfortunately creates an entirely wrong impression of what to expect.The story involves a woman who flees from a gang in a taxi; she is seriously unwell and asks to be taken to hospital. On the way she dies but not before she stashes a purse in the taxi. It contains evidence against the gang and they want it back. This proves troublesome for the taxi driver, Chin Chen, who has no knowledge of the purse. The gang repeatedly attack him to demand the return of the purse, they search his house and even send a woman who claims to be the dead girl's sister to retrieve the purse. Soon afterwards her real sister, a police woman, turns up and works with Chen to expose the gang…something that will inevitably put them in danger.Once I'd got over the fact that this wasn't really a Jackie Chan movie I rather enjoyed it; yes it was distinctly low budget but the story was solid enough and the fight scenes were entertaining even if they weren't particularly intense. Charlie Chin is a likable lead as taxi driver Chin Chen and the rest of the cast are decent enough. The version I watched was dubbed into English; this dub wasn't too bad for the most part although at one point the dialogue disappeared for a couple of minutes during what may have been a key scene! It was also presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio that rather than following the action appeared to just show the centre of the original widescreen version; this mean if a the person talking was at the edge of the original picture we just got an off-screen voice which was rather odd. Overall this wasn't a bad film and having seen this version I can only think a wide screen sub-titled version would be better.
Rejoicen I love watching some of Jackie Chans old movies. They usually have great action sequences, but not this one!!!! I had to force myself to actually finish it. It was so weird to see him as a bad guy, and he had this big hairy mole on his face. I mean, what's the deal with that? He was hardly even in it, and was not the main character. I also think his name is all over the box just because of his fame. Usually when watching his old films I usually can look past the fact that it's low budget, but this one I could not. It was really bad quality. The only thing I really found funny was seeing all of them run around in bell bottoms, and that chezzy 70's music in the background. So whatever you do, if you want to watch a good Jackie Chan movie DO NOT watch Rumble in Hong Kong.
onelover Not much to recommend in this average low rent 70's kung fu film, for true. Possibly an interesting flick to some as Jacky Chan (spelt that way in the film credits of the low quality DVD, of which I am the underwhelmed owner) plays a villain.However, Chan "plays" a "bad guy" so badly this performance actually underscores his normal "good guy" persona.A note on the DVD, entitled "Young Tiger" (2001 Front Row Features edition) the cover has only Jackie (spelled this way on the cover) Chan's picture on it (without the huge mole on his face as seen on screen) and prominent positioning in both printed credits and blurb.All this is entirely misleading as Chan has only a limited part in this movie. Minus, the print is no better than low VHS quality and with a story line that failed to hold my interest, so that when my hard drive went into spasms of yammering sound, and locked up near the end of the movie it was uncharacteristically welcomed by me.I rebooted and watched the rest of it out of sheer duty to the movie, this review and you. You're welcome.Jackie Chan was obviously not hired for his martial arts skills. In the obligatory last reel fight scene the hero soundly whups up Chan's villain who only gets in a sucker punch to prove to the viewer how much he deserves a beating, I suppose.I value this movie at One "dingbat of your choice" out of Four "dingbats of choice." Watchable if you like the genre.Peace out, onelover
Doctor05 Jackie Chan is incidental in this blurry golddigger (i.e., cash in on his fame) re-release. A tedious use of 80 minutes, very little action. Better action in five-minute sequences in 'Martial Law' repeats. I bought an expensive CD box for five dollars, which is the only redeeming aspect of buying that thing.