Jackie Chan: My Stunts (Review)

Director: Jackie Chan
Genre: Documentary
Lead actors: Jackie Chan, Ron Smoorenburg, Kwan Yung, Yuen Biao, Danielle Chau, Reuben Langdon
Release Year: 1999
Country: Hong Kong
Run Time: 94 minutes

Main characters:
Jackie Chan
Ken Lo
Brad Allan
Paul Andreovski (making of Who Am I?)
Mars
Anthony Carpio
Nicky Li
Rocky Lai
Johnny Cheung
Louis Keung
Sam Wong
Chan Man-ching
Andy Cheng
Rocky Cheung

Plot:

Jackie Chan: My Stunts is a 1999 documentary about Jackie Chan's stunts, fights and other related things and how he performs them. Throughout the film Jackie gives quick tutorials on how to execute various fight scenes under a budget.

I really enjoyed this film.This is a great documentary about the world of movie stunts. Jackie Chan takes you behind the scenes of two of his famous films, and shows you how he made the fights look as good as they do in the finished films.

As I ever wondered how he does all his stunts, this film is found out to be the best documentary to find out. Jackie Chan took us into the lots of his locations, and showed the innovative techniques he had used to create some of the best stunts in movie business. It also showed us how hard these people work to deliver the scene. I was shocked learning that in one sequence it took 348 takes to get one scene right. That's why now I am sure that all fantastic action scenes in Jackie Chan's movie, it's not an accident.

Of course I knew that all his stunts he did himself but I didn't supposed that he dared to take risk of his own life. My heart gave a leap when he jumped from one bus to another and then broke a glass sign-board. He was all in blood and even his bones were injured.

I think he is worth beeing respected for his work and for his selflessness and dedication to it. I also like how he treated his stunt team: for him it is his family in which everybody cares about each other and entirely trusts
in every member of the team.