Mid-career Jackie Chan: every Hong Kong film he made in the 1990s rated, from Rumble in the Bronx to Drunken Master II

‘I had to develop as an actor,’ Jackie Chan told the Post, and he certainly tried to move beyond martial arts action in his 1990s films for Hong Kong producers

In some films, such as Crime Story and Rumble in the Bronx, he succeeded, and Michelle Yeoh brought the best out of him in Police Story 3. Others were panned

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Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh in a still from “Police Story 3: Supercop”. The actress gave Chan a run for his money, and the result was his best film of the 1990s and “one of the most polished action comedies released in the past decade”, the Post’s critic wrote. Photo: Golden Harvest

Richard James Havis

Published: 4:15am, 31 Dec 2023Updated: 9:46am, 31 Dec 2023

Jackie Chan made his best films in the late 1970s and 80s, but he still produced the occasional classic in the 90s.

Below we rate every major Jackie Chan film produced in Hong Kong between 1990 and 1999.

Island of Fire (1990)

1.5/5 stars

Island of Fire 《火燒島》 (1990) Trailer

Chan is not the sole star of this ropy Taiwanese prison drama; he shares top billing with Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sammo Hung Kam-bo, and martial arts legend Jimmy Wang Yu. Chan reportedly agreed to take part in the film as a favour to Wang Yu, who produced it.

The story rips off Ringo Lam Ling-tung’s Prison on Fire and numerous Western films, and focuses on the individual stories of three jailbirds who unite at the end for some John Woo-style ultra-violence.

“Not one sequence sparkles and, despite the presence of an all-star cast, nobody shines,” said the Post’s review.

Operation Condor: Armour of God 2 (1991)

3/5 stars