Rumble in the Bronx

Rumble in the Bronx (Chinese: 紅番區) is a 1995 action comedy film directed by Stanley Tong, and starring Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, and Françoise Yip.

Rumble in the Bronx had a successful worldwide theatrical run, and brought Chan into the North American mainstream.

Ma Hon Keung, a Hong Kong cop comes to New York to attend the wedding of his Uncle Bill, who introduces him to his African-American bride-to-be Whitney at his supermarket, which he has sold to Elaine.

After one attack in which the gang members pelt glass bottles at him, Keung returns home badly injured.

His neighbor Nancy, a lingerie dancer/associate of the bikers and her younger brother Danny, a Chinese-American paraplegic who's taken a liking to Keung, take care of him and clean his wounds.

Angelo's colleagues are unaware of his diamond heist and one is executed in a tree-shredder; his remains given back to the other gangsters as a warning to return the multimillion-dollar goods.

The handover is botched after Nancy and Tony are held hostage by the syndicate and the diamonds are lost after they use a tow truck to destroy Elaine's supermarket.

White Tiger's men hijack a hovercraft and are pursued by Keung and the New York Police Department in the Hudson River.

Keung ends the chase by stealing a six-foot, jagged-sword from a museum, clamping it onto the window of a Lamborghini Countach and driving into the hovercraft, shredding the rubber skirt and crashing the vehicle.

The production team initially had to put up fake graffiti during the day and take it all down during the evening, while simultaneously making sure that no mountains made it into the background.

When it came to the film's climax, the crew colored a sock to resemble the shoe on his good foot, which Chan wore over his cast.

[9] New Line Cinema acquired the film for international distribution and commissioned a new music score and English dub (with participation from Jackie Chan).

A scene of Keung's airplane flying into John F. Kennedy International Airport was added to the opening credits.

In comparison to the Hong Kong version, 17 minutes of cuts were made, and the new English dub changed some of the context of the characters' conversations.

It became one of the year's top 20 highest-grossing R-rated films, finishing its North American run with $32,392,047[1] (equivalent to $69 million adjusted for inflation in 2021).

He described Chan as "the biggest action hero in the world" like a cross between Bruce Lee, Bruce Willis, Charlie Chaplin, and Harrison Ford, and said Chan "has brought the Kung-Fu action picture" genre "roaring back to life" in American pop culture.

He praised the action choreography as "a masterfully seamless wave, proving that acting and fighting can coexist, if they're in the hands of a virtuoso."

"[37] The film was featured in a 2015 video essay by Every Frame A Painting, calling attention to the fact that the movie was shot in Vancouver despite being set in the Bronx, where no mountain ranges are visible.

The majority of DVD versions of the film contain the heavily edited US New Line Cinema cut, with the relevant dubs created for each market.

As well as local censorship (for profanity - also featuring a substituted shots of Angelo insulting Keung), it has a slightly different Cantonese/English soundtrack (some characters are dubbed in Cantonese); there are English, Chinese and Malay subtitles languages.

The third release is a double-sided disc, featuring the Taiwanese Mandarin dub on one side and the English-dubbed New Line Cinema version on the other.

Jackie Chan's right foot lands at a bad angle after jumping onto the hoverboat, causing a serious injury that would not heal for the remainder of filming. The shot still made it into the finished movie.