Project A

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Project A

PG-13,

1983,

1h 40m,

Action

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80%

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Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan) is a lieutenant in the 19th-century Hong Kong marines. Pirates have been terrorizing local waters, with assistance from the corrupt authorities. Dragon Ma hopes to defeat the evil pirate clan led by Sanpao (Dick Wei), but his plan is short-circuited. Ma then teams with a navy admiral (Hak Suen Lau), a police captain Tzu (Biao Yuen) and a crafty thief (Sammo Hung Kam-Bo) in a new round of high-seas battles with Sanpao and his pirates.

Derek Adams

Time Out

Feb 9, 2006

Famous for the scene in which the acrobatic Chan, cornered by pirates, is left hanging by a clock's minute hand, this is a rumbustiously entertaining caper set in Hong Kong at the turn of the century.

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Nov 22, 2024

3.5/4

while it may seem to the untrained eye that Project A is just a particularly good Jackie Chan vehicle, it is actually the film that solidified his career and opened up his future

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Oct 20, 2024

3/4

The highlights include a plunge from a high tower, the sort of scene that makes me wonder how the hell Chan is still alive. (Performing the scene, the actor landed on his neck. His neck!)

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Michael J. Casey

Boulder Weekly

Oct 10, 2024

5/5

The scene in the teahouse where Hung and Chan team up to slap around a couple of lowlifes is poetry. The climactic battle with Biao, Chan, and Hung trying to take down the pirate captain might be the greatest fight scene in all of cinema.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Sep 7, 2020

5/10

Chan's flair for creative tussles knows no bounds.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

Dec 1, 2019

I consider "Project A" Jackie Chan's best movie and as I said before, the quintessential Hong Kong action movie.

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Harry S

Oct 2, 2017

Sometimes I wish every action movie was paced and cut like this.

Leia L

May 13, 2017

Jackie Chan's name is Dragon in this movie. So he plays a coast guard officers and he has to fight against some smugglers. Jackie Chan goes on an adventure with Sammo Hung, they were good buddies in their prime since their opera school days. Some of the best stunts, well, spoiler: The Infamous Clock Tower Stunt, the bus ramming car scene Seeing is believing, Jackie Chan's stunts got the best for us. Great storyline with great action, this is a Jackie Chan classic movie you can handle with ease.

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Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan) is a lieutenant in the 19th-century Hong Kong marines. Pirates have been terrorizing local waters, with assistance from the corrupt authorities. Dragon Ma hopes to defeat the evil pirate clan led by Sanpao (Dick Wei), but his plan is short-circuited. Ma then teams with a navy admiral (Hak Suen Lau), a police captain Tzu (Biao Yuen) and a crafty thief (Sammo Hung Kam-Bo) in a new round of high-seas battles with Sanpao and his pirates.

Director: Jackie Chan
Producer: Leonard Ho, Edward Tang
Screenwriter: Jackie Chan, Edward Tang
Production Co: Buena Vista (Walt Disney)
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 40m

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