Drinking and Fighting, what a pair!

Fighting off bad guys and at the same time getting drunk is an odd way to engage into combat. However, in Drunken Master 2 or Jui Kuen II directed by Chia-Liang Liu, Jackie Chan plays as Wong Fei-Hung, is apparently the best way for him to defeat the bad guys and once again save the day. Swift attacks, unpredictable movement, amazing stunts, and action sequences all combine into a movie that many devoted Jackie Chan fans have come to enjoy.

It may seem simple to just simply fight off the bad guys and defeat the enemy once and for all, but Chan or Fei-hung, must go through many obstacles in order to accomplish what others are afraid to do. Although he is skilled in martial arts, he father has forbid him from using his skill in harming others or putting on a show, let alone use the unique style of Drunken Boxing. Regardless of what his father has said, his step-mother (Anita Mui) encourages him to do what he believes is right and stand up for his country and retrieve the stolen ancient Chinese artifacts that others want to have transported out of China and sold for money.

As you watch the movie, many different scenes were made and put together with precision. From the fast kicks and punches, the quick movement, the somewhat painful stunts and acrobatics, it was all done thanks to Jackie Chan’s ingenuity in martial arts and stunt choreography. By using specific camera angles throughout the movie, we can truly observe how the characters not only react and express emotion but also to put emphasis on the movement and action when it happens. Such as a low angles in order to show how strong Fei-Hung’s Drunken Boxing style truly is and close-ups during the action sequences to allow the audience to observe what is happening with clear detail of how the characters react to the situations that arise.

Not only are the action scenes emphasized on, we also see the props and the costumes that each character is wearing or around. For example the characters’ clothes, this is proper because of the time setting that the movie was made. Other examples include the relative setting, the houses, the streets, the music and sounds, the overall surrounding unifies the individual characters and the movie setting together. Thus allowing the audience to experience what it was like and how life was back then for Fei-Hung and what he had to go through.

Although an old movie made in 1994, it is regarded as a classic and very well known to many martial arts and Jackie Chan fanatics worldwide. All in all Drunken Master 2 is a movie worth watching whether you are a Jackie Chan fan or just want a movie to enjoy that not only contains action but also humor and the special talents that Jackie Chan has to offer.