In his new film, The Foreigner, Chan is still doing his own stunts (computer-generated effects are for Marvel wimps!) and they’re still killer. Chan turned 63 in April, but age hasn’t slowed him down a bit. The lifetime achievement Oscar he won last November was richly deserved and long overdue. 4 is on the drawing board), but true aficionados rightly point to Chan’s death-defying Hong Kong cinema epics – see Drunken Master, Police Story and Armor of God – as pinnacles of the form. American audiences know him best from his three Rush Hour action comedies with Chris Tucker (No. The undisputed king of martial-arts movies kicked up a notch with slapstick and jaw-dropping stunts, the star is acrobatic poetry in motion. Legend is a much abused word in the movie business – but Jackie Chan really is a legend.
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