Rumble in the Bronx (BD) [Blu-ray]

Awesome movie, my favorite Jackie Chan movie. Feel the base in your chest.

I love this movie. I've watched it about a thousand times & consider it one of Jackie's best. It captures a lot of what makes JC movies great, coming as it did at the beginning of his explosion onto the Western scene, but before the Hollywood writers & insurance carriers started trying to make him more like a typical Hollywood star & restrained his utterly gonzo tendencies to do stunts that sane people wouldn't even consider. I also love the fact that, unlike many/most of his earlier movies, Jackie himself did his own voice. I know he's got an accent & has trouble with English (clear in the outtakes that accompany nearly all his movies) but I love his voice & pronunciations anyway.Clearly, the movie has some logic gaps that you have to just motor on past. No, New York City doesn't have big mountains in the background. Get over it (anyone who's lived in, say, the South knows that many Hollywood movies are filmed in Meditteranean terrain that's nothing like the South, even if supposedly set there. Deal with it). And I love the Rainbow Coalition nature of the gang, even though that's about as likely as the gang members being worried about the safety & survival of Elena. I'll roll with that too, just to watch Jackie at his fight scene best, such as the first time he goes into the gang's playhouse. Chan's use of random props in his incredibly athletic fight scenes are legendary, with good reason; who else can use refrigerator doors, shopping carts, pinball machines, skis, & anything other than typical "weapony" things to stage a first-class fight scene? His skill, jaw-dropping athleticism, and sense of humor show in the fight scenes in this movie as well as any of his others. Who else would have been skilled (& crazy) enough to perform the running leap across the alley from the parking garage to the teeny balcony? Had a motorcycle run millimeters over his tender bits as his bottom half projected from the sun roof of a car? Jumped from the bridge to the barge (tho that didn't turn out so well, tho he continued the remainder of the filming with a cast on his shattered ankle)? Even his use of his jacket in an early fight in the supermarket was masterful.Not to mention, we get to see Jackie in torso-hugging sleeveless shirts and that tight onesie-undie outfit....yummmm. Still makes my little heart go pitty pat; the man is an incredible physical specimen and does things with that physique that no one else could do, would think of, or even consider. But even aside from his super-human physical skills, Chan can actually act, and has a sense of humor about his movies that is wonderful (he's a long-time fan of Buster Keaton, and it shows).Fun, amazing, and riveting. Ranks up there with "Operation Condor" & "First Strike" as my fave JC movies. And "Supercop." I'd add some of his earlier films, but since other people dubbed his English lines, I can just barely stand to watch them...frequently do so with the sound off just to watch the fight scenes & not have to listen to the prissy, British-accented prep-school-sounding frat boy voice.

It’s a great movie

Such a great JC flick. Just ignore the ridiculous plot and sit back to enjoy JC at his finest. This was the first time I saw JC in the movie theater

This is a really good movie with likable characters. Modern martial arts movies had a new bench mark and were never the same after this one.

A classic movie for some Jackie lovers. The corny moments are funny and of course some great fighting and showing off from the legend.

One of Jackie Chan's best films of the 90s! This was his big breakthrough into the American film industry, where many fans got their first fix.In Rumble In The Bronx our hero Keung (one of Jackie's best characters btw) is a Hong Kong native on vacation in the USA to attend his uncle's wedding. Sounds nice, right? Well everything spirals out of control and he ends up battling not only the neighborhood street gang of thugs but also the mob. Oh, and a hovercraft. Can't forget that hovercraft!The fights, stunts, humor/comedy and ridiculous story are all great. Sure it's dumb, but it's dumb in all the right ways. Jackie Chan always excells at blending humor and action and this is one of the best examples of what he does best.This disc is the Westernized/International cut of the film, not the original Hong Kong cut, which runs longer.... but you know what? I actually prefer this cut over the Hong Kong version! Now I know I can hear HK cinema purists out there screaming at such a declaration, but this version works better. Most of what has been cut out is scenes of Anita Mui's character dealing with more hardships and trouble which there is already plenty of in the movie.Picture quality is great (MUCH better than the awful First Strike Blu-Ray which looks terrible) though there is not much in the way of extras. The outtakes during the credits though are the greatest supplemental material of every Jackie Chan flick and a standard in his films since the 80s.Highly recommended.

This review is for the uncut Hong Kong version of Rumble in the Bronx, known in Japan as Red Bronx. Not to be confused with the Region 1 DVD and VHS releases here in the United States, the DVD I have here is the Warner Platinum Collection Two-Disc Special Edition from Japan, which can be viewed at レッド・ブロンクス [DVD]. The 2-disc set has both the HK and US versions on NTSC Region 2, but you will need a Region Free DVD player or another external DVD burner set to Region 2 to watch.The Japan disc has the Hong Kong version presented uncut and in undubbed form of Cantonese/English along with the Japanese dub at a runtime of 1 hour 46 minutes. Aspect ratio is 4:3 Letterboxed and contains the original music score by Nathan Wong. This is the version I enjoyed watching more than the all the other home video releases on earth and its my personal favorite.The Asian version bonus disc has the altered US version by New Line Cinema with the american music score by J. Peter Robinson. US version is reduced to 1 hour 29 minutes and aspect ratio is in 16:9 widescreen that also persists on all the Blu-ray releases, even the Japanese Blu-ray as well.Keung, a Hong Kong cop who arrives in New York (sort of..) to go see his uncle's wedding. This couple is on the verge to sell their grocery supermarket to Elaine (R.I.P. Anita Mui), however there are street gangs wreaking havoc and somehow the diamonds happen to be stolen.What else can go wrong in Brooklyn? Find out when you watch Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx, the uncut version that is.