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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much martial arts mayhem and mistaken-identity silliness ensue.Exactly how silly this film is supposed to be is unclear. I suppose any movie that uses a dance competition as a plot device has to be silly in some respect. But with the American / English dub, some of the voices are far sillier than they probably were originally. And is it the original music, because some of that is really goofy.I have to give credit to Jackie Chan for directing and starring in his own movies. There are some real auteurs in the world of martial arts cinema, and Chan is one of them. I am not a big fan of the genre personally, but he makes me want to be.

This period film from Jackie Chan benefits from his skills as an accomplished martial artist as well as his burgeoning talent as a director. Unsurprisingly, the various action sequences which play throughout are expertly handled with the utmost skill. Technically, the production values are pretty basic and there are none of the locations or special effects that turned up later in Chan movies. Instead, this is another of his small-scale epics which is packed with all kinds of action and not a lot else. The fights are well-staged and generally good, and become frenetic and exciting in places such as the finale. Be warned, Chan's trademark for dangerous stunts is in short supply here and there's only one moment - the wall-climbing - that looks to be genuinely scary.Chan stars as an unlucky (what else) student of a martial arts school who is dismayed to learn that one of his best buddies has teamed up with a dastardly gang of thugs and robbers. What follows are scenes which involve him getting mixed up with a rival policeman and his children with lots of slapstick antics and martial arts mixed in. The finale involves a long, extended fight between Chan and the chief bad guy which never becomes boring. The acting is surprisingly good all round and there are the usual over-the-top theatrics (Tien Feng as an exasperated martial arts master) and bizarre characters, like the guy with glasses and sticky-out ears. Watch out for Yuen Biao in an early co-starring role with Jackie. Chan mugs for all his worth as usual but makes up for it in the fights. Not one of Jackie's all-time classics, but a definite must for Chan fans and worth a look for everyone else.

This is actually one of the better of the earlier Jackie Chan movies that I have had the fortune to watch. "The Young Master" is a nice and refreshing step in evolution in Jackie Chan's early movie career.The storyline in "The Young Master" is easy to follow, and it has just the right amount of action and comedy to make it enjoyable without being downright silly, as some of the earlier movie suffered under.However, there is a formula to the Hong Kong and Chinese movies that came out in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and "The Young Master" follows it straight to the point. An underdog has to fight against overwhelming odds, and his path is filled with perils, but also funny moments and situations. And at the very end, of course, there is a very long fight scene between the main character and the villain. Pretty straightforward and textbook step-by-step cinematography here.What really works in this movie is that compared to the older movies, then the martial arts seems more fluid here and better choreographed, coming of as series of proper fighting, whereas the older movies were often painstakingly step-by-step choreographed and it was showing that the martial artists were following a strict schedule of what to do and where to throw punches or kicks.As usual, then Jackie Chan manages to balance the scale between comedy and martial arts quite well, keeping the movie enjoyable and with just the right amount of slapstick comedy to make it funny.For me, then this is the movie that marks the evolution of the Jackie Chan that we see on the screen today, and "The Young Master" is a definite must have in any collection of fans of Jackie Chan or fans of martial arts in general.

In my opinion, whether Young Master is good or not is very difficult to tell. It cannot be compared to Drunken Master, which I'd say is Jackie's finest hour but how well does it stand off then? The negative sides of the film are:1. The plot - We all know that the plot is far from essential in Kung Fu-movies, but there is something about this movie that really bothers me.. I can't really tell what, but the production was haltered several times and it really shows in the finished print. There is just a dull feeling throughout the movie that has nothing to do with the comedy or anything.. I wonder if anyone else feels the same way. Besides, letting Jackie be a top-notch fighter in the beginning just to become the underdog fighter who basically wins by pure luck or by using the surrounding is not very clever.. of course, this has to do with Jackie wanting to change the tone of the action halfway through the production..2. - The misuse of the actors - Honestly, they have Wei Pei and especially my all-time favorite Yun Biu in the movie.. and what do they do? They really waste their talent.. Wei Pei doesn't get a chance to shine, and to be honest, this is probably Yun Biu's worst appearance in a movie ever. Sure he handles the bench really well.. and no, he doesn't have to do the tumbling and flipping all the time to be impressive.. but the fight with Jackie leaves me so unsatisfied3. The camera work - it really lame.. no one can say anything else.. I sometimes believe that I could have done a better job myself..4. The end fight - I've read other peoples' comments about this movie.. and everyone seems to appreciate the end battle with Ing-Sik Whang. I beg to differ.. It's not good.. sure Ing-Sik shows some good kicking.. but Jackie gets to show nothing.. nothing.. not even in the end, when the fight basically looks like a common boxing match.. really.. did Jackie write this was his 9th favorite fight??And the good parts:1. The lion dancing - really good scene.. very beautifully performed2. Some of the humour - yes, sometimes it really works.. and it's intentional :)3. Yun Biu - He is just too cool to ignore4. Yun Biu making a move with the bench - This is one of my favorite "kata" ever performed.. it's right after Jackie also grabs a bench at Yun Biu's home.6. The fan fight - reason alone to watch this movie.. it's probably my favorite Jackie Chan fight ever.. be sure to watch the uncut version though! This is one of the few times that the bad camera work actually boosts the fight scene.. I just love the rhythmic dancing and the beautifully performed movements with the fan.. and the way it ends.. there is just a certain touch to it that is hard to describe.. but I guess this is the kind of fight you either love or hate..So in all.. the movie itself is pretty bad.. but some scenes really raise the entire film and make it a superb way of spending 106 minutes.. (the uncut version where the final fight is even looonger)