Shinjuku Incident

[Josealb]

Just got this Jacky Chan movie. Is it any good?

After a bit of research, i found out that its not the usual Chan doing his back flips and accidental type fighting. Its a serious movie, with real like violence, in a Noir type context (struggling illegal Chinese immigrants in japan, Yakuza environment, etc). Weird how low profile this movie was.

Ill report afterwards.

[nianfong]

serious movie, no cool fight scenes. meh.

[bailewen]

About a month ago I actually posted a long interview with Jackie Chan about the movie. I just didn't mention the movie specifically because what I thought was more interesting was seeing him be seriously interviewed by a Hong Kong interviewer rather than some bubblehead on a Hollywood promotional tour.

Not sure where the link is though. I'm looking forward to catching the flick. Smart career move on his part. He's getting older and needs to up his acting credentials if he want to keep going through the next 10 or 20 years.

[tastydurian]

I checked it out, it's somewhat of an Asian remake of Scarface. It still has a few script problems, but better than a lot of the mainstream stuff coming out of HK these days. Jackie isn't going to win any awards for his acting, but this one wasn't as laughably bad as the The Myth or Rob-B-Hood.