Video Capsule Review

THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER

Jackie Chan, Anita Mui (2000, Dimension, 102 mins., R, also on DVD)

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Rated: R; Genre: Foreign Language; With: Jackie Chan

By Dalton Ross

Dalton Ross

Dalton Ross is an editor-at-large at EW and swears there are better pictures of him out there...somewhere.

Forget Chris Tucker and Owen Wilson -- Jackie Chan's best sidekick ever was a bottle of booze. This recently dubbed version of 1994's Drunken Master II has it all: expertly choreographed fights, healthy doses of humor (from Chan and Mui, whose physical comedy resembles that of an Asian Lucille Ball), and a hero whose power flows from mass consumption of alcohol -- sorta like Popeye, only blitzed. Truly intoxicating. A

Posted Mar 16, 2001

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