Twin Dragons by Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam Ling Tung (1992)
1 November 2007A ridiculously fun and silly Jackie Chan romp. Absolute silly action, with Jackie playing twins separated at birth in a film that was all done pro bono by the cast and directors to make money to build a new headquarters for the Hong Kong director’s guild. And featuring the amazing Maggie Cheung Man Yuk which means I am there. This is the new Fortune Star all region DVD Remaster, which looks better than the old disc with no compression artifacts, but honestly looks like the print is not too high quality. You must be ready for silliness, because Jackie here plays a bad ass street punk as well as a famous music conductor, and the two keep getting confused for each other. Silly and ridiculous fun.
Just after they are born to their mother (Silvia Chang) and father a wounded prisoner escapes, and grabs one of 2 twin babies, and uses it as a shield to escape. The cop (David Chiang Dai Wai) manages to get the perp, but the baby rolls on a wheelchair into the park and is picked up by a drunken whore who takes him and raise him. We cut to years later, and the boys have grown up separately, not knowing about each other (and both are Jackie Chan Sing Lung). One is Die Hard and is a fighting street punk, working as a mechanic with his best friend Tarzan (Teddy Robin Kwan), and the other is Ma Yau a famous conductor. And they do seem to be psychically connected as Die Hard’s hand twitches as if he is playing the piano when Ma Yau is playing. Die Hard goes with Tarzan to a club to fight a triad boss who is going to force a club singer to sleep with him, and Tarzan wants her (though he is small and ugly), this is Barbara (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk), who is actually a great musician, but has nothing to her name, and Die Hard wants her for his friend, though he saved her. May Yau is coming to Hong Kong for a concert, and gets hooked up with a family friend with Tammy (Nina Li Chi) who is playing as a nurse, but actually works at a gym, and just likes strong guys. Of course the two end up getting mixed up, which even more confuses the girls.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILER…
At first it is the girls who get mixed up, with Barbara going with Ma Yau and not understanding why he is such a great musician, and supposed to have a big concert, and Tammy goes with Die Hard, and ends up sleeping with him and falling for his muscles. Eventually the two cross and realize what has happened, but don’t want to come out with it, because all that has happened.
And of course Tarzan has gotten in more trouble with the gangsters as they have hurt him, so the gangsters have taken Tarzan to get Die Hard to drive a get away to get their boss away from the police, but they end up getting Ma Yau to do it, though he isn’t the driver. And Die Hard has to strangely conduct the concert, though he is flipping around and doing martial arts. Ma Yau gets away, but with a briefcase, so they must trade it for Tarzan and Ma Yau and Die Hard go to get him, and end up having a huge battle in a Mitsubishi testing facility, where Ma Ya must fight using the psychic connection to Die Hard. The good guys finally win, and get the girls. And at the end are going to get married, and Die Hard will meet his parents, but he tries to run, and the girls get them confused, and finally just grab one.
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Silly action packed fun, with some gorgeous women.