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The decade-spanning film superstar Jackie Chan needs no introduction as both an action hero and martial arts legend. Since the mid-70s, the Rush Hour actor has garnered international fame through his commitment to adrenaline-fueled action, superb fight choreography, and a flurry of incredulous, death-defying stunts that made Chan a household name in both hemispheres.

 

With this illustrious career in mind, it’s time we took a look back at Jackie Chan’s vast filmography to sort out the actor’s ten greatest martial arts movies. Whether you’re a fan of the actor’s earlier Hong Kong films or prefer Chan’s action movies from the ’90s, there are bound to be movies that have fallen between the cracks of your recommended watches amid the overwhelming plethora of content and new releases on streaming services.

 

If nothing else, Dragons Forever is particularly noteworthy for being Jackie Chan’s final on-screen collaboration with both Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, whose electric chemistry made for some excellent cinema throughout the 1980s.

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Jackie Chan taking cover with a pistol in Police Story

The decade-spanning film superstar Jackie Chan needs no introduction as both an action hero and martial arts legend. Since the mid-70s, the Rush Hour actor has garnered international fame through his commitment to adrenaline-fueled action, superb fight choreography, and a flurry of incredulous, death-defying stunts that made Chan a household name in both hemispheres.

 

With this illustrious career in mind, it’s time we took a look back at Jackie Chan’s vast filmography to sort out the actor’s ten greatest martial arts movies. Whether you’re a fan of the actor’s earlier Hong Kong films or prefer Chan’s action movies from the ’90s, there are bound to be movies that have fallen between the cracks of your recommended watches amid the overwhelming plethora of content and new releases on streaming services.

 

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Dragons Forever

This Film Is An Excellent ’80s Action Comedy

Jackie Chan in Dragons Forever

In Dragons Forever, Jackie Chan reunited with Yuen Biao and legendary Hong Kong director and actor Sammo Hung in a goofy action comedy that sees the trio hired by a shady chemical company accused of polluting the water supply near a local fishery. Per usual, Chan brings his A-game in the film’s tight stunts and choreography.

 

What may surprise those unfamiliar with the actor’s filmography is his keen slapstick comedic chops in Dragons Forever, a skill he’d honed since his breakthrough as a martial arts lead in several Hong Kong comedies of the mid-to-late ’70s.

 

Perhaps the best remembered in Dragons Forever is the film’s iconic finale, wherein Jackie Lung (Jackie Chan) and his friends Wong (Sammo Hung) and Tung (Yuen Biao) storm the chemical factory (which is revealed in the film to be a front for a massive drug empire) and take on its leader, Hua Hsien-Wu (Yuen Wah), and his henchmen in a superb ultimate showdown.

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