Here’s a movie
from the 90s that I totally forgot about until I watched it just now. Jackie
Chan’s Twin Dragons is a very forgettable movie with a plot that lacks
excitement. To add to that, the way the movie portrays its cast as silly makes
it even harder to recommend.
I guess this is
someone’s idea that the only thing better than one Jackie Chan in a movie is
two. What you’d expect from such an idea is a good script and outstanding
effects, since Jackie plays two roles. What we got instead was a weak script
with one main focus: give Chan as much screen time as possible. That hurt the
movie, because now all the plot holes and bad directing were obvious for all to
see. Add in the glaringly poor special effects, which were so cheesy, and the
whole twin concept just ended up feeling silly.
That aside, the
only way you can make it through this movie is with the silliness of the
characters, which brings some comedy, and the action is also bearable.
The movie starts
with one of the lamest escape attempts on screen. A gangster is being wheeled
in at a hospital when he sees an opportunity to escape. Somewhere else, twins
are just being delivered to a happy couple, when this gangster enters their
ward and takes one of the twins to further his escape.
In the end, the
child, Boomer (Chan), ends up with a drunk who raises him in the streets, while
the other twin, John (also Chan), is raised by his parents. John goes to
expensive schools and becomes a music composer, while Boomer becomes a
mechanic.
Now grown, the
two seem to be the best at what they do, but when John comes to Hong Kong to
visit Boomer, something weird starts to happen. Whatever Boomer is feeling,
John feels it too—and vice versa.
While John is
being prepped to marry a lady named Tammy, who is interested in tough guys,
Boomer is in trouble with some gangsters because his best friend is in love
with a woman (Barbara) who doesn’t even know he exists.
Boomer’s
troubles bring him and John into closer proximity, and soon we start to see a
case of mistaken identity happening, with both making things worse for the
other when they are mistaken for one another.
In the end, this
is not one of Chan’s best movies, and it’ll make you wonder why he agreed to it
with such lame effects and a weak script. I don’t know if the movie was a box
office success, but what I do know is that if you want to see a good Jackie Chan
comedy or action film, this is not the way to go.
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