Top 10 Jackie Chan Movies

Probably the most famous of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong work, and possibly the most popular of all his movies, Drunken Master is also one of Jackie's personal favorites. He plays the legendary Wong Fei Hung during his younger days. Wong Fei Hung endures lengthy sessions of extremely difficult training to master the art of drunken kung fu. The film concludes with a fight scene in which Jackie Chan displays all the traits of the 8 Drunken Immortals. This film is not only a great Jackie Chan film, but a great kung fu movie in general.

Everyone loves Rush Hour! The pair of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker makes for a perfect comedy, even if Jackie has to carry all the action. Jackie plays Lee, a Hong Kong detective in Los Angeles to rescue the daughter of a politician, kidnapped by the criminal Lee spent most of his career trying to catch. Carter is a police officer that is barely holding on to his job, who is partnered with Lee simply as a babysitter to keep Lee away from the investigation. Eventually Carter and Lee steal the show and save the girl, proving themselves in the process.

This film was Jackie Chan's first as director. He plays Lung, a lazy troublemaker who likes to get into fights, despite the fact that his grandfather warns him not to. Unknown to Lung, a murderous general is killing all of the members of his grandfather's clan. When the general sees Lung in a fight, he follows him and murders his grandfather. The grieving and guilt ridden Lung finds a new master and seeks revenge.

This Jackie Chan film doesn't get the attention that I think it deserves. It is entertaining and filled with classic Chan comedy and action. It is also famous as the film that nearly killed Jackie. He was supposed to make a jump into a tree, but instead took a nasty fall and was rushed away for emergency surgery.

In this film, Jackie Chan plays Hawk, an adventurer who has to help his friend to save his girlfriend, who also dated Hawk at one point. Cult monks have kidnapped her to force Hawk to find the Armour of God. The ending fight scene is something any Jackie Chan fan will love.

The Young Master is Jackie Chan's first film for the famous Golden Harvest Studios. It also features an amazing, twenty minute long fight scene with Whong In Sik, a Korean Hapkido master who uses the style against Chan's kung fu. Jackie Chan stars as Dragon. Dragon's kung fu brother Tiger betrays the school and goes against them in the annual lion dance competition. He leaves and continues to get into more trouble so Dragon decides to go after him to save the day.

This is one of my favorite films featuring the famous trio of Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung. Wheels on Meals boasts a wonderful fight scene between Jackie and legendary kick boxer Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. The movie as a whole is a showcase of Jackie Chan's comedic acting style and innovative fight scenes, including one involving skateboards. Despite it's silly reversed title, Meals on Wheels is a movie that is worth adding to any Chan collection.

In this action flick, Jackie is a cop assigned to take down a drug czar. After successfully arresting the villain, Jackie is forced to watch him walk free on a technicality. As revenge for his arrest, the drug dealer frames Jackie for the murder of another police officer. The only way out of that mess is for Jackie to use any means necessary to prove his innocence and take down the bad guy.

Supercop was released in the US in 1996, but the film was originally released in 1992. This film also stars Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh. Jackie plays a cop partnered with a Mainland Chinese policewoman (Yeoh) who is trying to take down a weapons smuggler. Excellent action and fast paced. This is my favorite of the Police Story films, and one the movies that shot Jackie to stardom in the USA.

Jackie plays Keung, who is in the US to attend his uncle's wedding. His uncle sells his grocery store to a very unlucky buyer (Anita Mui) and leaves Keung to help her out. Keung ends up fighting with gang members who were stealing. Things get worse when he gets set up by the gang leader's girlfriend, who turns out to be his neighbor! She later apologizes and they become friends. Meanwhile two low level members of the gang steal some diamonds from mobsters. In order to beat them and save all of their lives, Keung and the gang have to team up. This movie features amazing stunts and creative, non-stop action.

This movie is hilarious! Jackie is a TV chef in Australia. He meets a reporter and accidentally switches one of his cooking show tapes with one of hers, a surveillance video showing a gang meeting going wrong. The gang of course wants the tape back! The chaos that ensues is the result of the mob and a rival gang all going after this tape, Jackie and the reporter. An entire mansion even gets demolished. If you want a film that has more of the comedy styling of Jackie Chan this is the one for you.