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Best movie of this year hands down!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

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

Jackie Chan's first leading role and, unsurprisingly, it isn't one of his best (it's miles better than the execrable YOUNG TIGER, though). This is an ultra-cheap, poorly made movie, with boring fight sequences played out to total silence. The choreography is rubbish, the dubbing terrible, the acting not much better. Although Jackie is athletic and invigorating in the various fights and training sequences, he's hopeless as an actor here (as to be expected from his first role, I guess). He doesn't even get any of his trademark comedy – that instead comes from Yuen Siu Tien, playing to type as an old/drunk/mad instructor. Yuen is even weirder than usual in this film, wearing beggar clothes and the worst wig I've ever seen. Still, he proves to be a highlight as usual.The plot is nonsensical rubbish, with the old staple "you killed my dad" revenge story tacked on at the beginning and end. The middle of the film takes place in one of those cheap fishing villages with Jackie fighting a gang of thugs over and over again without much excitement. Yuen – here called "The Man Who Isn't There" (something lost in the translation, I fear…) sits on a seat in the forest and watches Jackie fight. Dean Shek stops by as a homosexual landlord with a terrible dubbed British accent, plus there's an irritating fat guy in for supposed comic relief. Things suddenly become serious at the finale, where Jackie's pickpocket friend is slaughtered and he takes his shirt off to get Bruce Lee-style scratches on his chest. He then proceeds to kick the bad guy's ass. All of the violence is cut out in the choppy DVD version I saw, which didn't impress me too much. Too crazy (in a bad way), poorly edited, and lacking in basic principles to offer much entertainment other than for curiosity seekers.

Right, well given the age of this movie, and the stage during Jackie Chan's career it was made, it should be kept in mind that by today's standards, then this is hopeless outdated.Being a fan of Jackie Chan, I had to watch this movie, and I guess that you really have to be a fan of Chan to enjoy it. If you sit down to watch it as an ordinary movie, and not because it is a Jackie Chan movie, then you will be laughing and most likely also bored out of your mind.I got a horrible dubbed version DVD from Amazon, that didn't even come with the original language track, and it appeared to have been a transfer directly from VHS to DVD without any editing or improvements what so ever. It was just awful. At least if they had opted to keep the original language track, the movie would have been somewhat more enjoyable. These ridiculous half-hearted English dubbings really are more of a nuisance than they help a movie in any way.The sound effects in the movie are bad, but hey weren't they all in these really old Kung Fu movies? The English dubbed language track was just horrible to listen to, and the movie didn't really have that great dialogue. And, sad to say, the fighting was really, really staged, to the point it was painful to watch. And to make matters worse, suddenly there was a reference to Popeye in the movie, complete with the music from Popeye playing; are you kidding me? That was just ridiculous.And the English title of the movie, "Master with Cracked Fingers", what was up with that? There was no cracked fingers in the movie at all. I really didn't get that choice of movie title."Master with Cracked Fingers" is one to watch if you are a big fan of Jackie Chan, but don't expect too much from it. Well, if anything, then watch the movie for the death scene at the very last fight, it was just hilarious - if you can stand the five minutes of robotic staged martial arts.I guess every great star had to start out somewhere, and with age comes experience.

Apparently Jackie himself, merely 17 when this film was made, says to stay away from this movie. I shoulda learned that earlier. It's at least two movies Frankensteined together, and new footage (with the old master beating up the flamboyantly gay landlord, farting in his face and avoiding his Popeye-themed attack (complete with Popeye's theme music - calling all lawyers)) was added years later to complete the "film", such as it is.Plot? Barely there. Jackie plays an evil warlord who kills one of his men (who squirts blood out of his mouth in an unintentionally hilarious scene reminiscent of Monty Python's Black Knight), whose young son (Jackie again) is raised by another former henchman, who does not want Jackie to be a fighter. "You want to destroy life? Well, kill flowers!" he yells, tossing potted plants at his wayward stepson. However, Jackie's been training in secret with a crazy old guy in the woods since he was 6 (in a series of disjointed and somewhat creepy flashbacks), and there's only so much he can take before springing into action, especially since people attack him and his sister on a daily basis. He fights through a bunch of generic thugs as the camera whips around randomly, the canned soundtrack saws away pompously and dubbed threats ("I will take care of you now! Hum!") assault the viewer's ears. Characters mostly pop up to get killed (foster dad, a young pickpocket), or disappear after a few scenes (Jackie's uncle and sister).The editing is such a mess it's usually impossible to tell exactly what's going on. When Jackie's pickpocket "friend" (I put that in quotes because they only met three times beforehand) is threatened by being tied up high on a pole, Jackie fights off the thugs around him. We cut to a thug falling into the water, and then the pickpocket just falls from the pole he was shown to be snugly tied to (shown by a dummy falling towards the camera), a musical sting, and Jackie looking... kinda bummed. "Goodbye, my little friend." Then a suddenly shirtless Jackie points at the villain (actually, he points at the camera - most of the dialogue scenes are played in separate shots) and declares "YOU killed him. YOU are responsible for his death." I dunno, Jackie. Was he the one who made the ropes magically disappear? The dubbing is horrid, the characters either having British accents or Brooklyn accents, neither of which match the tone well at all. It sure is weird hearing Jackie's voice dubbed over by somebody else, and the endless "Ho! Hah! Huuuh!" during the fights is the fine line between hilarious and unbearable. Every blow, even light smacks, get a loud *CRACK* sound effect, and at one point Jackie holds a conversation with a villain while we hear a hilarious number of loud *CRACKS* in the background!And then there's the final battle with the warlord, now elderly and played by a tall actor who looks nothing like Jackie (same dubbed voice, though) and a fat guy who follows the Way of the Fish, which Jackie easily disposes of, Old Master cheering from the sidelines. Jackie and the warlord blindfold themselves, which is cool, but it mostly is a desperate attempt to hide the fact that even Jackie is played by a different actor now. The bad guy whips around and whinnies like a horse. It's that kind of movie.Don't fret though, fans. Pseudo-Jackie beats the villain by knocking him over, breaks his neck by turning it slightly to the right - complete with spaceship sound effects - and Old Master says Jackie has earned the right to carry a blue flag. Jackie waves it triumphantly, the movie ends five seconds later, and the soundtrack grinds to a halt.Only for people who want to see Jackie's first starring role. Other than that, you won't find any of the elaborate choreography and set-pieces you'd expect from Jackie, although some of the hand-to-hand stuff is pretty well done, from what you can see of it through the insane editing. You'll likely have more than a few laughs as well, albeit the uneasy kind.Rated R for God knows what reason. The violence, save the blood squirt, is clean, there's no swearing, and a really cheesy attempted rape scene involves a fully clothed couple wrestling while the woman screams. Norway banned it, although in retrospect that was a really good idea.

I just saw this movie.. and I have to say... DON'T BELIEVE WHAT MOST OF THE OTHER USERS WRITE ABOUT THIS MOVIE (i.e. its bad etc)its SO good!! its really funny,the action is VERY fast for its age (I cant remember anything in a fight being this fast until the early 80's)Jackie for one time gets to show he REALLY can fight!..instead of just getting beaten up by the later movies for about 10 years..the dubbing is really good too,very professional voice-actors.at least 8/10I love this movie!!