Rumble in the Bronx

1994 Crime Drama

After years as a major star in most of the rest of the world, Jackie Chan finally broke through to stardom in the United States with Rumble in the Bronx, a dubbed and re-edited version of Hung Fan Kui. Here Chan plays Keung, a police officer from Hong Kong who travels to New York to attend the wedding of his uncle, Bill (Bill Tung). Bill has just sold his grocery store to Elaine (Anita Mui), and Keung finds Elaine to be a pretty good reason to extend his visit to New York. However, a mean-spirited and fashion-challenged street gang has moved into the neighborhood and is demanding protection money from the local storekeepers. Elaine is ready to sell the store and move on, but Keung is determined to show the toughs that he's not about to be pushed around. Things get even more sticky when the hoods are on the trail of a lost cache of stolen jewels. more..

Director: Stanley Tong

Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Francoise Yip, Bill Tung, Kris Lord

Reviews

  • Any attempt to defend this movie on rational grounds is futile. The whole point is Jackie Chan, he does what he does better than anybody. He's having fun. If we allow ourselves to get in the right frame of mind, so are we.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    19 January 2013

  • Talk about the limitations of using the four-star rating system to assess a movie both glorious and dreadful, with the dreadful components glorious as well in their own bent way.

    Mike Clark - USA Today

    19 January 2013

  • Kinetic, fizzy, delivering more bounce to the ounce than anything out there right now, "Rumble in the Bronx" is my kind of mindless fun.

    Jay Carr - The Boston Globe

    19 January 2013

  • The movie is a giddy triple somersault of a film that makes no sense whatsoever, although in its best moments it is as much fun to watch as a death-defying circus act.

    Stephen Holden - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • For serenely rising above all the foolishness is Chan himself, a performer whose belief in broad and harmless fun gives his films a clear and present connection to the classic silent comedies to go along with its action fixation. For once a film's ad line has a whiff of truth about it: "No Fear. No Stuntman. No Equal."

    Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Best Action Choreography

    Hong Kong Film Awards (1996)

  • Best of Show - Audiovisual

    Key Art Awards (1997)

  • Best Fight

    MTV Movie Awards (1996)