Rumble in the Bronx [Blu-ray]

Director: Stanley Tong, Tong Kwei Lai, Jackie Chan

Overview

After years as a major star in most of the rest of the world, Jackie Chan finally broke through to stardom in the United States with Rumble in the Bronx, a dubbed and re-edited version of Hung Fan Kui. Here Chan plays Keung, a police officer from Hong Kong who travels to New York to attend the wedding of his uncle, Bill (Bill Tung). Bill has just sold his grocery store to Elaine (Anita Mui), and Keung finds Elaine to be a pretty good reason to extend his visit to New York. However, a mean-spirited and fashion-challenged street gang has moved into the neighborhood and is demanding protection money from the local storekeepers. Elaine is ready to sell the store and move on, but Keung is determined to show the toughs that he's not about to be pushed around. Things get even more sticky when the hoods are on the trail of a lost cache of stolen jewels.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/06/2015
UPC:	0883929458806
Original Release:	1995
Rating:	R
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	11,652

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jackie Chan	Keung
Anita Mui	Elaine
Bill Tung	Uncle Bill
Kris Lord	White Tiger
Marc Akerstream	Tony
Garvin Cross	Angelo
Morgan Lam	Danny
Ailen Sit	Tony's Gang Member
Chan Man Ching	Tony's Gang Member,Saleslady at Market
Fred Andrucci	Tony's Gang Member
Mark Antoniuk	Tony's Gang Member
Lauro Chartrand	Tony's Gang Member
Chris Franco	Tony's Gang Member
Lance Gibson	Tony's Gang Member
David Hooper	Tony's Gang Member
Kathy Hubble	Tony's Gang Member
Terrance Leigh	Tony's Gang Member
Dean McKenzie	Tony's Gang Member
Kimani Ray Smith	Tony's Gang Member
Lisa Stevens	Tony's Gang Member
Richard Faraci	White Tiger's Gang Member
Mark Fielding	White Tiger's Gang Member
Terry Howsen	White Tiger's Gang Member
Jordan Lennox	White Tiger's Gang Member
Gabriel Ostevic	White Tiger's Gang Member
John Sampson	White Tiger's Gang Member
Owen Walstrom	White Tiger's Gang Member
Carrie Cain Sparks	Whitney
Guyle Frazier	Police Officer
David Fredericks	Police Officer
Harold Gillespie	Police Officer
Alf Humphries	Police Officer
Gary Wong	Police Officer
Elly Leung	Walter Lau/Realtor
Jamie Luk	Stephen/Friend with Vintage Limo
Richard O'Sullivan	Ben
Alecia Paget	Cashier
John McGrath	Hovercraft Operator
Adrian Parkinson	Hovercraft Operator
Rick Burgess	Harley Gang Leader
Hung Ko	Prospective Market Buyer
On-Na Lui	Prospective Market Buyer
Emil Chau	Ice Cream Customer
Alex To	Ice Cream Customer
Francois Yip	Actor,Nancy,Actor
Yueh Hua	Actor
J. Robinson	Composer

Technical Credits

Edward Tang

Fibe Ma

Marc Akerstream	Stunts
Al Benjamin	Special Effects
Jackie Chan	Stunts
Ann Forry	Casting
Leonard Ho	Executive Producer
David Paller	Special Effects
Stanley Tong	Stunts
Barbie Tung	Producer
Edward Tang	Screenwriter
Fibe Ma	Screenwriter
Raymond Chow	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

Newer (and very casual) fans of Jackie Chan may think of Rumble in the Bronx as his first film, because it marked the moment when someone finally decided to market this kung-fu whiz kid to American audiences. It's actually his 55th, and all those years of experience come together delightfully in one of the actor's most fun features ever, regardless of the fact that it's dumbed down for those not schooled in martial arts cinema. That this is clearly not the Bronx (those Vancouver mountains in the background are a dead giveaway), and that the villains represent an idea of Americans born of too many viewings of West Side Story, hardly matters. Chan grabbed hold of Western audiences with his ability to climb walls, jump through shopping carts, dodge pinball machines, and leap across balconies, and his older films began hitting theaters at a rate of two per year. What stands out, other than the lightning-speed kicks and punches, is the actor's underlying decency. Differing from fellow countryman and martial arts superstar Jet Li, Chan sees his gifts as more a cartoonish circus act than an opportunity to crack vertebrae, keeping the scowls and body count almost at zero, with the villains either arrested or humiliated rather than killed. Even the vicious street punks who pelt him with the shrapnel of glass bottles become allies by the end -- Chan just wants everyone to get along. Rumble in the Bronx also introduced new viewers to Chan's trademark closing-credit outtakes, which feature the hilarious (and sometimes painful) mishaps involved in Chan's stunts.