My Lucky Stars (1985)
Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.
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For someone who loves the "three brothers" in the outstanding "Dragons Forever", or the also excellent "Wheels on Meals", "My Lucky Stars" was a poor offering. The fight scenes at the end, particularly Jackie's unique and exciting romp through the "haunted house", account for four of my five-star rating. The vast stretch of "humor" in the middle is comprised of some Chinese-nuanced gags, inaccessible to my Western senses, and a load of truly imbecilic slapstick, most of it so juvenile and embarrassing that I had to eventually begin fast-forward searching, to get to some decent action. I can only recommend the first 10 minutes, and the last 20.....
This is a second film from Lucky Stars series (the first one was Winners and Sinners). It has some funny scenes and some well choreographed martial art scenes and that makes this film highly entertaining. Yuen Biao had a very small role in this movie but still there were two good fighting scenes with him. There was many good fighting scenes with Jackie Chan. One of them took place in chamber of horrors and it was made in Jackie Chan style (using everything that's around to win a fight). There were few scenes where Sammo Hung was imitating Bruce Lee and that looked great. The Five Lucky Stars did also a great job. There were few comical scenes where they demonstrated their improvisation skills.
It is the second film in the series after Winners and Sinners. Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars is the film after this one. I would certainly recommend this series of movies. My favourite parts of this film are the fight scenes, but the funniest moments are when Sammo Hung is with his friends e.g. the scene where they pretend that there are robbers in their house to get close to Sibelle Hu. I like the end of the film as there is a lot of fighting between Jackie Chan and Dick Wei, Sammo and Lau Kar Wing and Yuen Biao and Lam Ching Ying. This is definitely the film, which made me watch martial art movies, particularly when they are comedies.
this was more comedy than action, but i still enjoyed it. not enough jackie though. more of him in it, and all the lack of action would have been forgiven. but the action that exists is good and fun. my least favorite of the kung-fu-teers films that ive seen, but still enjoyable.