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Good concept, poorly executed.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Jackie Chan comedy that was made as a fundraiser for the Hong Kong Directors' Guild. Jackie plays twin brothers separated at birth who's paths cross years later when one brother, a concert pianist, visits Hong Kong for a show, is mistaken for his criminal street-wise brother. Comedy and martial arts ensue! My main disappointment with the film is that there weren't enough fight scenes. A majority of the film is a farcical door slamming sex comedy (though mostly a family friendly sex comedy since this IS a Jackie Chan film), involving lady friends (Maggie Cheung and Nina Li) mistaking the brothers for the other and liking what they find. That part of the film is mildly entertaining, but not funny enough to make it worth recommending. However, the climactic fight sequence in a car testing plan is terrific and makes this film absolutely worth watching. Co-directed by Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam, Hark directed most of the comedy and Lam took care of the action. There's also some fun HK director cameos, including John Woo as a priest at a wedding, Ringo Lam plays a mechanic, Tsui Hark plays a card player, Gordon Chan plays a violinist, and Kirk Wong plays a thug.

Twin Dragons (1992): Dir: Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam / Cast: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Teddy Rubin, Alfred Cheung, Anthony Chan: Poorly dubbed idiotic farce with Jackie Chan playing twins separated at birth. One grows to fight crime while the other becomes a famous conductor. They can apparently feel the effect of the other, which is handled very poorly. Obviously both Chans will be confused with the crime fighter conducting a concert and the conductor forced into criminology. This theme was done every bit as badly in The Corsican Brothers but at least the stunts by Chan are amusing and the only areas of compliment otherwise it is one fight after another. Of course, the other film was done badly by Cheech and Chong so viewers can take their extreme chances on either one. Both Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam can handle action but not screenplays. They fail when the whole touch element regarding the other twin isn't totally realized. With two roles Chan comes off with both the exhilarating action star as well as the witty funny side. We know where this is heading but Chan can only do his best and entertain regardless of how bad the material is. Also featured in bad performances are Maggie Cheung, Teddy Rubin and Alfred Cheung, none of whom will likely win any rewards for their contribution here. It proves that Chan can be twice as bad with twice the screen time. Score: 2 / 10

By any objective standards, this movie is absolutely terrible. The direction is extremely sloppy, the "special effects" (though undeniably time-consuming) are pathetically obvious and the script...well, let's just not go there. Nevertheless, it does boast some witty, top-notch fight choreography and some legitimately funny moments, so Jackie fanatics may want to give it a look. But if you're new to Hong Kong action cinema, don't make "Twin Dragons" your introduction to it: you'll have a hard time believing that a movie this bad can actually be produced anywhere in this world. (**)

Designed as a cash cow to raise money for the HK Directors Guild's new apartment (hence the long list of all-star cameos), Twin Dragons isn't as dull and plodding as many would like to make out. Instead, we're treated to an endearing comic caper setting Jackie Chan as identical twins separated at birth (Van Damme's Double Impact would be made the same year) – one's raised on the HK streets to become a car mechanic and part-time illegal drag racer, the other is raised by biological parents in the US to become a world-renowned pianist and first-class fruit. Inevitably they collide, swap girlfriends and get into a sticky situation with some nasty criminals requesting a huge debt to pay. The result is a tad mediocre; silly and plodding it may be but dull it certainly isn't: the obligatory final beat-‘em-up pits double Jackie in a car warehouse fending off the baddies left right and centre, leaping in to and out of automobiles like the over-excited master he is – and really what more do we want?