Rumble in the Bronx

"No Fear. No Stuntman. No Equal."

1995 1h 46m CN

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6.9

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★6.9TMDB · 1,232

CrimeActionComedyThriller

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Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

“No Fear. No Stuntman. No Equal.”

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Cast

Jackie Chan
Keung
Anita Mui Yim-Fong
Elaine
Françoise Yip
Nancy
Bill Tung Biu
Uncle Bill
Marc Akerstream
Tony
Garvin Cross
Angelo
Morgan Lam
Danny
Ailen Sit Chun-Wai
Tony's Gang Member

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Writers: Fibe Ma Mei-Ping, Edward Tang
Languages: Cantonese, English
Countries: Hong Kong

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MONEY

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Grossed $76M — a 10.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Cantonese, English.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai, shot by Jingle Ma Choh-Sing. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Nathan Wang. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Jackie Chan and Anita Mui Yim-Fong and Françoise Yip carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "No Fear. No Stuntman. No Equal.".

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The take

Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai directs. Jingle Ma Choh-Sing behind the camera. Nathan Wang scores. Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Hong Kong. Dialogue in Cantonese, English.

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Things worth knowing

1Grossed $76M — a 10.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
231 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Cantonese, English.
4Directed by Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai, shot by Jingle Ma Choh-Sing. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Nathan Wang. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Jackie Chan and Anita Mui Yim-Fong and Françoise Yip carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "No Fear. No Stuntman. No Equal.".
9IMDB entry: tt0113326 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 18 themes, including "new york city", "martial arts", "supermarket", "diamond".
11Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Jingle Ma Choh-Sing
Original score: Nathan Wang
Editing: Peter Cheung Yiu-Chung
Production design: Oliver Wong Yui-Man
Runtime: 106 min · 1h 46m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $7,500,000
Box office: $76,028,558
Return: 1014% of budget
Original language: CN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

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Filipe Manuel Neto2023-04-23
★ 2/10
Sympathetic humor and impressive beatings in a very poorly made film, which entertains its audience. Although I know the actor from other movies, this was the first Jackie Chan movie I saw. He brings to life a friendly young man from Hong Kong who comes to the USA for his uncle's wedding, who has lived in the Bronx, New York, for many years. During his stay, he will see his uncle sell his shop in order to retire and spend his old age on a ranch, and he will also have to face a biker gang and a mafia organization that has lost a bag of diamonds that end up in the power of the character played by Chan. Of course, it's all going to end up in a beating. The film is quite good at its simple and direct task of entertaining the audience. There's a nice, well-measured mix of humor and action. The jokes are quite naive, but they work and give the film a familiar and friendly touch that is pleasant without turning it into a tear-jerking comedy. The fight scenes are the strong point, and it is worth seeing the highly choreographed fights that Chan fights with ten or twenty opponents simultaneously, and in which he uses all his knowledge of martial arts. However, let's not have any illusions: the film shows the fight scenes a little faster than in reality, which amplifies the effect, but takes away the verisimilitude of what we are seeing. Chan is likeable and perhaps one of the most palatable actors in the vast universe of stars whose careers were based on thuggish films (Van Damme, Chuck Norris and others). He deserves a good grade, both for his acting and for his fight scenes. Unfortunately, he's the only actor worth mentioning because the others are all pretty amateurish. But let no one think that Chan gives us a lesson in acting! He does what he's supposed to do: be funny and kick ass. It's Jackie Chan, not Lawrence Olivier. Anita Mui and Françoise Yip are here simply because the film needed some pretty faces. The script is quite weak, a mere excuse for high doses of comedy and beatings for all tastes. The poverty of the script is such that, halfway through the film, we already forget the names of the characters and why Chan came to the US. These are questions that we soon feel are irrelevant (or rather, that were considered irrelevant in this film). The villains are really weak - the mobsters look scared, and the biker gang is ridiculous. However, all of this is relatively forgivable when we think of the poor editing work that went into this film. The cuts couldn't be more obvious and misplaced. There are scenes that seem to be inserted with a hammer, others appear suddenly, or end suddenly, just like the film itself, which ends so suddenly that it feels like an episode of a TV series and not a film for the cinema.

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