Action star Jackie Chan is back with another thriller drama titled Hidden Strike. The movie which was released earlier in July on Netflix sees the veteran actor play a former special forces soldier, Luo Feng. He stars alongside former WWE champion and actor John Cena and together they embark on a deadly mission. It’s a delight to watch Chan in an action-thriller and on screen after a while. The actor, even at the age of 69, impresses with commendable action skills. From leaping from buildings and jumping from moving cars to displaying gravity defying-stunts, here are some of Jackie Chan’s best works.
7 Jackie Chan movies to watch if you liked ‘Hidden Strike’ on Netflix
1. New Police Story – Zee5
The Police Story franchise is one of the most popular and longest-running works of Jackie Chan. From a traffic policeman to a senior inspector, Chan has come a long way in the series. The New Police Story (2004) is a reboot of the Police Story series and stars Chan as Inspector Zhan Kwok-wing. In this movie, Chan is shown as a drunken, broken inspector on a sabbatical following the deaths of his colleagues during a mission. He is forced to return to the police force by Frank, a family member of one of the slain policemen, to put an end to the mayhem caused by five youths. These youngsters, the same ones who killed Chan’s colleagues, rob banks and kill policemen for fun. Frank motivates Chan and also helps him reconnect with his girlfriend. Chan and Frank learn to work together and beat the criminals in their own game. The movie makes for an interesting watch, even if you haven’t seen the previous Police Story movies.
2. Rush Hour trilogy – Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
This buddy cop series stars Jackie Chan as Hong Kong Chief Inspector Lee and Chris Tucker as LAPD Detective James Carter. All three films centre around the duo and their misadventures while facing new villains and challenges. The first film sees Lee being summoned to Los Angeles after the Chinese ambassador’s daughter is abducted. He is teamed up with James and the two set out to rescue the little girl. In the second movie, James travels to Hong Kong for vacation which turns into a nightmare when an old nemesis of Lee surfaces. The third movie finds Lee and James in France while tracing the Triads. With the fourth movie in the making, this is the right time to revisit the series for light-hearted fun.
3. Shanghai Noon – Disney+Hotstar
Set in 1881, this action-comedy movie follows Chinese Imperial guard Chon Wang (Chan) travelling to America to find and bring the runaway Princess Pei-Pei home. During his pursuit of the princess, he meets a cowboy bandit, Roy O’Bannon (Owen Wilson) and his gang. After initial animosity against each other, Wang and Roy team up to rescue the Princess, who it turns out, is kidnapped. While Roy teaches Wang the ways of the cowboy, the latter tries to adapt and adjust to a new country. The duo encounter numerous roadblocks, during their journey to find the Princess. There’s a sequel titled Shanghai Knights with Wang and Roy returning with more misadventures. There’s never a dull moment when Chan and Wilson are together in one frame on screen and it’s fun to watch the two and their endearing bromance.
4. Who Am I – Zee5, Amazon Prime Video
The plot revolves around Jackie Chan, a secret field operative, who is assigned to capture an extraterrestrial compound from falling into the wrong hands. However, during his mission, Jackie meets with an accident and wakes up in a tribal community, with amnesia. Unable to recollect his memories, Jackie keeps asking Who Am I, which inadvertently becomes his name for the remainder of the movie. While he spends more time with the tribals, Jackie bids farewell to the villagers and embarks on finding his true identity. The movie then focuses on Jackie’s struggle without his memories and him inadvertently unearthing a larger government conspiracy involving the extraterrestrial compound.
5. Rumble in the Bronx – YouTube
One of the older Jackie Chan movies, this action-packed thriller follows Hong Kong police officer Keung. His life takes an interesting turn when he travels to New York for his uncle’s wedding. He gets embroiled in minor conflicts with a local gang who try to vandalise his uncle’s supermarket. A series of fights break out between them, but when the gang crosses paths with a crime lord, Keung steps in to help them using his status as a police officer. A sufficient amount of stunts and a fabulous rover craft chase (on the road!) make this movie fun to watch.
6. The Tuxedo – Amazon Prime Video
Jackie Chan plays taxi driver Jimmy Tong who is recruited to chauffeur a mysterious, wealthy man named Clark Devlin. When his employer is in a comatose state following an accident, Jimmy learns of his true identity – a government spy. Jimmy inadvertently ends up wearing one of Devlin’s hi-tech watch-controlled tuxedos and impersonates him and ends up working with Blaine (Jennifer Love-Hewitt), a government researcher. Together they get to the bottom of the mystery behind the creation of the genetically-modified water strider. Though Blaine learns of Jimmy’s true identity, they continue working on the case that Devlin was assigned to. While Blaine and Jimmy are pursuing the case, they end up on the mastermind’s radar who thinks Jimmy is Devlin and sends his men to kill Jimmy.
7. The Fearless Hyena – Plex
Ching Hing-lung (Jackie Chan) lives with his grandfather, Kung Fu master Ching Pang-fei (James Tien) in a small village. Hing-lung is trained by his grandfather in Kung Fu but is asked to keep his skills a secret and never to display them. Not paying heed to his grandfather’s warning, Hing-lung exposes his Kung Fu expertise during a brawl. A series of unfortunate events lands Hing-lung into trouble leading to his grandfather’s death at the hands of an old nemesis, kung fu master Yam Tin-fa (Yam Sai-kwoon). Devastated by his loss, Hing-lung channelises his grief and anger in honing his Kung Fu skills under the guidance of The Unicorn (Chan Wai-lau).
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