The Reel Rejects - RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995) PACKS A PUNCH!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

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Starting point is 00:00:51 Thank you to Shopify for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Tara, anything else I need to add or I think we're good? No, I'm ready. Let's rock and roll and rumble, baby. We are ready to rumble in the Bronx. So rumble in the Bronx. Let's commence. Well, we'll just leave the credits rolling. I doubt there's anything afterwards, but yeah.

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Starting point is 00:01:59 feeling. So let's start with that. I'm feeling pretty good now. That movie was fun. Before I was a little tired, uh, working, doing stuff. Yes. And then we get here and I'm like, all right, this movie blastrooney. Yeah. How about you? Uh, I was definitely tired. I had, uh, uh, because we didn't again mention this earlier. I had a nine hour filming day yesterday, not here. Um, and then I went to the gym. Uh, and then I went to the gym again this morning. So, oh, gosh. I'm just like very tired. But again, this is, we love doing this. So it's like, you know, I'm doing what I love. So I'm not complaining.

Starting point is 00:02:34 But yeah, so I was a little like lethargic coming into this. Thank God I got my G fuel. Yeah, he's always got his G fuel. And I got a great co-host to get to rent my energy up. But then, yeah, coming into this, I'm like, then as the movie star was like, oh, I'm, I'm so into this movie right away. It was a lot of fun. It definitely ramps up your energy, like as it goes on. My only tiny little complaint, and again, this is just very minuscule.

Starting point is 00:02:59 I just wish it was longer because I was so, I was having so much fun. I know. I wanted more. Yeah. And, but it was very well-paced, I thought. I really did like Kiyang's character.

Starting point is 00:03:13 He's very, very kind, very sweet. He's that good Samaritan type where he's, you know, willing to use, you know, his kung fu or martial arts, whatever he, style of fighting, you guys let me know in the comments that he's using.

Starting point is 00:03:28 He uses it. it for good. He doesn't use it, you know, for, for nefarious purposes, which I appreciate. I love that. I also like, too, that I know it kind of happened rather quickly, but I like that he was kind of preaching to them in a way that kind of rather made them turn. Also, seeing their friends in mulch might have also helped to do that. Yeah. To make them go, yeah, this is not a good lifestyle. And we should probably change our ways. But still, I do like that, that PSA that he gave them and maybe to hopefully the audience but um you made this mention on one of our instagram posts which you were totally right i've always thought this and this movie just

Starting point is 00:04:07 exemplifies this as my thinking as well i don't know why the academy awards do not have a stunt category it makes no sense i mean they are literally putting their lives on the line jacky chan stunt performers in general i this was just absolutely incredible to watch Tom Cruise, when he does stuff like this, again, I really appreciate. I know you do. I'm sure many other audience members, too. I mean, you are literally putting your life on the line. For our entertainment.

Starting point is 00:04:38 Yeah, and I know they are getting paid a great deal of money, but still, like, you know, there's no price to pay on your life. And it is, like, I really do appreciate it. And then seeing the outtake, seeing, like, just the smallest of stunts, like just the pinball machine, just hitting him in the head. You can see how much that hurts. And then when he landed, I did notice that they. on the hoverboat i did notice too like you that they did cut away i was like i wonder if he got hurt there i didn't say anything and then when they showed i was like yeah he did because they cut away pretty quick they did cut away pretty quick and i had a feeling because that hovercraft is

Starting point is 00:05:10 moving at an insane speed i got to imagine so that's got to be timed right and you have to land perfectly so um i it did say that stanley tong the director and jacky chan were both the stunt directors. I can't even imagine how the choreography, how they came up with it, but it was so intuitive. It was so inventive. I just had a ball watching that. Obviously, I still enjoyed the story. I still enjoyed the characters. I connected with them. I like how, I even like Nancy. I thought she was a very flawed character. I did like her arc, how she learned to change her ways. And she, you know, Keong and the whole story with her brother helped her, you know, gravitate towards an arc. That was all fun. But, I mean, the martial arts was just, oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:05:51 I can see now why Greg this got him into, what did he say earlier that it got him into? He, I think he, he was just saying this was the first, like, Asian film to come to America. Yeah. And this, this is what got him into watching films. Understandable. Yeah. This was a lot of fun. Like I said, I'd only seen a minute or so, if that, when I was six or seven. And I didn't remember other than that when he's got the black shirt on. But this was a blast. I had a great. time i definitely got more to say i want to let give terror the the floor what did uh what did you think

Starting point is 00:06:25 terror yeah i thought that this movie was a lot of fun i think it's it's interesting how we ended on that freeze frame and he's got the two girls and him laughing because we still kind of don't know where he stood with the girl from the store and then the girl with the brother i forget her name was her name nancy i believe okay we still don't know except that nancy's boyfriend who's now apparently Jackie Chan's friend who was on the boat, like maybe it's all good. And it's, yeah, and I think that that is, again, these movies, they go a little out, they color outside the lines in an absurd way, but I like it because we're basically saying that Jackie Chan came into their lives, Keong came into their lives, and changed their ways,

Starting point is 00:07:13 right? They're, they're rumbling around the Bronx, ruining people's cars and days, but then Jackie Chan arrives and he's really the only force that can stop them and actually make them flip because they've probably never actually encountered anyone that they could not hurt and then get away with it, which totally sucks until they met Jackie Chan. But I like that the storyline, I mean, it's not just that. They advance it to the diamond thing and where is it going to be. And that makes us feel it's number one, it puts.

Starting point is 00:07:51 puts us in the environment of the kid and the sister. So we're not just like, why are we here? Because the diamonds do end up with the little kid in his wheelchair. But it puts him in a very vulnerable position. And also we see his sister sort of like cry about how she hasn't been a very good sister to him. And so I like seeing her go through that arc. So it's not totally unbelievable that she starts to become a different person. maybe kind of falling for Keying's character because of what we've seen in the script,

Starting point is 00:08:29 which is great. And I also think even with the jerk guy, her boyfriend, I forget his name, but he's at the end. He's like, hey, buddy. We're still, we still see with him how he changes. And they didn't make him go too far because he was the one when they're in the alley. He's like, bro, what are you doing? He pulls the gun from the blonde-haired kid. Angelo. Yeah, he's like, stop, right? But he's still like a bad guy.

Starting point is 00:08:58 But towards the end, it's the same. It kind of goes through an arc, learns from Jackie Chan, because Jackie doesn't hold a grudge. He helps them, even though they have literally tried to kill him. So I like that Keung's character obviously saves the day, puts his life on the line for these guys who have tried to kill him. him um and i like the jokes in it and the stunts and everything was really practical he actually fell under a semi um all of this stuff the way that jacky chan uses the environment in his stunts he

Starting point is 00:09:34 does that with every film and there's not enough films who actually do that where they're in the environment that's what i like to see use the environment a weapon should come from the room that you're in i like to see that jacky does that all the time and And I heard that he did like all the stunts, probably most of the choreography in this, which is awesome. And I think that this film is just a really, really fun one to watch. And I'm not surprised that this film is what set Jackie Chan off to start him. Very well said. I agree with you about using things in your environment.

Starting point is 00:10:09 It just feels more natural. It doesn't feel like it was pre-programmed and someone wrote it in there. You know what I mean? So I think that's a very good point. um in regards to what you're talking about with nancy and this really did feel organic with her turn and having her arc and she is a flawed character i agree with you i think that scene was very integral and it was very it did feel earned in terms of like you know you got this guy kiang he kind of ruined obviously the whole thousand dollar the race or whatever and she obviously

Starting point is 00:10:43 had an issue with him yeah and then she saw like how sweet he was being to her brother now granted he didn't know yet that Nancy was the sister. Right. But then, again, saw how Sweetie was being. So she knew he's a good guy, first and foremost. And she saw how vulnerable her brother was being and that she wasn't there for him. And again, it seemed like there's no mother or father there. It just seemed like she's the only one taking care of Danny.

Starting point is 00:11:05 So she's trying to do it. She's trying to balance between work with that bad group of people who are influencing her in a bad way, plus also taking care of her brother. So it's a lot of things to be juggling at once by yourself with nobody. on top of that, when Kiyang does find out who she is, not having like, you know, sort of nefarious or rather like judgmental view towards her and saying, hey, what happened in the past? Don't wait.

Starting point is 00:11:32 She beat the, her and her crew beat the crap out of him. I almost left him, like, for, as I gone or, like, permanently. And I think that, like, really left a profound effect on her, like, not only from her brother, but Kiyang as well. Yeah. And so that's why I feel to your point, which I think was a very important. very well stated it did i really did feel like it was earned her arc and like the more time she spent with keong because he's such a very i think like what this says to in general

Starting point is 00:11:57 the people we hang around yeah like have a very can either have a positive or negative influence on who on who we become or just like at that time of our lives like what we are doing uh you know in terms of like the way we act and the way that we behave and obviously when she was hanging around with the biker crew or whatever she was not she was a abandoning her brother basically and she wasn't and she was doing again not very good things smashing on cars with bikes and all that uh kicking random strangers in the junk uh but then like when she started hanging with keong she became uh you know more present with her brother and uh just becoming just a better human being yeah in general so i just think that's a good message in general just

Starting point is 00:12:42 be very careful you know who you have in your life be smart about that uh i do like that message there in general. I will say too when it comes to the stunts which were again A plus A plus 10 out of 10 as Tara would say Rejignation when we started this company there was no manual

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Starting point is 00:14:27 not only the close-up ones that made me claustrophobic were jacked, because I feel like I'm there with him. Mm-hmm. But some of the shots were like you're in the car, so ambitious how they did, they're in the car, other car, like when they were using the hovercraft to smash things

Starting point is 00:14:41 and other cars were getting hit and they were kept it in frame to get hit. I'm like, if that's when you know it's so. so practical. Totally. Obviously, nowadays,

Starting point is 00:14:50 I'm sure many teams of crew would probably say, hey, this is going to be very difficult, understandably so. I can't imagine

Starting point is 00:14:58 how terrifying and how daunting and how long it took them to do this. And we appreciate it so much. Yeah. So damn entertaining.

Starting point is 00:15:05 Probably would go the, the CGI route nowadays, but still, this was such a joy to watch. Just from the stunts

Starting point is 00:15:12 on. This could have been the worst story, characters I didn't even connect with, which I think God, I did on both ends. Just the stunt work, it would have been like, oh, my, and the fight choreography, I'm like, holy guy.

Starting point is 00:15:23 And the cars, too, all of that would have made up for it. But it's, but the fact that you all together, you know. Made a nice mishmash. All right, I'm going to read some trivia. Yeah. While you're doing that, I have some stuff that I'm going to get for you, but you read that. Okay. So, um, he did break his right ankle, which we saw, um, which it sucked.

Starting point is 00:15:45 Um, and then, oh, yeah, we saw. all that in the after thing um okay let's see the film is considered to feature jacky chan's hollywood breakthrough performance that's cool because that's um curiously the american dub of the film removed all references to chan's character being a cop from hong kong oh yeah i mean he did say i'm police but he was just doing that because he thought he thought the nancy who would end up interesting yeah um the warehouse fight scene took 20 days to film oh wow jacky chan having to teach the local stunt players to fight Hong Kong style. Wow.

Starting point is 00:16:23 They got a lesson from Jackie Chan, yo. That's amazing. That's amazing. Emily Chow's cameo as an ice cream vendor is meant to surprise Chinese viewers. We didn't recognize as he is a famous music artist in Hong Kong. That's awesome. Cool. Okay.

Starting point is 00:16:43 In his autobiography, I'm Jackie Chan. he talked about the initial difficulty of filming a movie in Vancouver. The production team initially had to put up the fake graffiti during the day, take it all down during the evening, while simultaneously making sure that no mountains made it into the background. However, Chan decided that it was best that the production team focused on the action only without worrying too much about the scenery. Viewers noted mountains in the background,

Starting point is 00:17:10 which doesn't exist in the New York City landscape. I literally did not notice. I did not notice at all. Never thought about it. And I'm with you, Jackie Chan, because honestly, if the people are worried about the mountains, we're not doing the job right.

Starting point is 00:17:26 Yeah, no. And we didn't even point it out even once. So I did not notice at all. Yeah, insane. Oh, Jackie Chan had to pull himself out from Don't Give a Damn to be in this movie. So that's a movie from 19. 95. I've never heard of it. Yeah. Um, why don't you go and then I'll find some spoilers.

Starting point is 00:17:50 Okay. And then we'll, um, first of all, just really quick, uh, remember his uncle in the movie who left for the honeymoon. I said, I think he's in Jackie Chan's for a strike. He's like the police inspector. His name was also Uncle Bill in that movie. Oh. Yeah. Um, which, yeah, and that movie came out a year after this. By the way, that movie was also directed by the same director of this Stanley Tong. So fun little fact um so that was cool uh just really quick they're not showing me the international box office for this they're only showing domestic so which is considered worldwide i guess yeah what do you think worldwide this one again this is 1995 box office so don't don't go on uh inflation um oh god oh god internationally so we're we're no no it's just domestic it's saying but

Starting point is 00:18:37 they're considering a worldwide domestic meaning USA just USA. But they're considering it worldwide. That's different. Yeah. I would just consider it domestic. I don't know. Like 157 million. I wish that was it. 32 million. Oh. Yeah. But remember it's 1995. How much was the budget? The budget. Let's see. That's more important. The budget of Rumble in the Bronx. It's going to be. Rumble. Probably half that. Bronx. Budget. The budget was 7.5 mil. that's it wow they ruined a lot of cars okay 1995 yeah all right okay they did they did well then let's do one at a time critics uh rating um rod tomatoes okay critics rating i'm gonna go with a 70 70 and wait oh a 70 70 70 80 80 80 oh good i'm really glad they're not idiots

Starting point is 00:19:35 um i thought that they would they would uh take ticks for some of the writing with the buddies and the gang people. Agreed. Audience. Audience score. I'm going to go with an 86, I hope. I am very unhappy with this audience score, 65. Yeah, I'm with you.

Starting point is 00:19:54 I would have thought it would have been the opposite, 65 critics, 81 audience. Oh, my God. Yeah, this one I don't agree. Are you guys, like, allergic to fun? What the actual F? Usually, I do agree with the audience, just not in this one. Yeah, I know it, not this one. It's like, oh, my God, eat junk.

Starting point is 00:20:12 Yeah, this one. The beach in the hovercraft scene is Spanish banks in Vancouver. Oh, cool. When the purple car explodes due to the grenade going off, there is a clue to the name of the boss of the bad guys. Written on the wall is the word tiger in white paint, white tiger. So that's a little hidden Easter egg for us. When Jackie Chan gave his Sega game gear to Danny,

Starting point is 00:20:36 there's no video game cartridge, but Danny is still able to play games when he's on screen. Oh, okay, got it. Like, people were like, they just have a cartridge in it. He shouldn't be playing. I bet.

Starting point is 00:20:47 But, okay, that's awesome. That's all the trivia I got for y'all. Last thing I'm going to say, or the last two things. So that actress, I'm just checking to see if she was in Romeo Must Die. I'm not seeing her in Romeo Must Die. Okay.

Starting point is 00:21:02 Which it's weird because I kind of... It was up for sure. I thought she wasn't. Yeah. But she was in small, which I did remember she was in Smallville. I could have sworn she was in Romeo must die. I will have to look up who that was later out when we were done off camera.

Starting point is 00:21:16 But that actor who I said was in Time Cop, his name is, let's see, Richard Farachi. And he was in Time Cop, so I was correct on that. And he passed away in 2015. God rest his soul, unfortunately. R.I.P. But, yeah, I was going to say, that guy wouldn't forget him because I've seen Time Cops so many times. I love that. I want to see more Jackie Chan films.

Starting point is 00:21:37 so I say we I hope we are getting comments about seeing it looks like I've heard drunken master is a I think that's a classic never seen it never obviously I have not you guys can leave it in the comments what you think you should do next or what what is one that you've seen reactions on which ones are good and I know I've said I've seen Jackie Chan's for a strike because that was the first one it's been years so if that's one you want Tara and I to do I will do that reaction because it's been again so long but I'm down to go on a whole Jackie Chan festival with uh yeah yeah so um if guys if you've stayed with us this song seriously we appreciate let us know in the comments what do you think of rumble in the bronx is this your favorite jacky chan film

Starting point is 00:22:18 is this the one you were introduced to we'd love to hear all your comments down below and uh yeah take care don't put any uh cranes or anything in any storefronts and stay safe stay away from biker gangs and take care love you landin miller london wow Landon Miller dude dude dude dude dude I gotta say if there was someone who I

Starting point is 00:22:47 personally would want to take down Daredevil it would be Landon Miller you don't know this guy's skills I'm learning them in real time right now me too

Starting point is 00:23:02 Landon Miller has the ability to anticipate what you're going to say what moments before you say it damn dude roughly like right there he would have guessed damn dude about two seconds roughly before then he gets all the good lines it's all the good dialogue he can totally take the whizom was um oh i almost i thought i got it see i'm not i'm no landin miller dude landin miller but that skill's going to come in handy because you're going up against the lawyer and if anyone

Starting point is 00:23:35 you know the truth about having to fight a blind man who can sense everything around it it's going to be really important that you're able to anticipate what he's going to say next yeah because that's his main weapon is his words

Starting point is 00:23:51 is his words and his comprehension of the various cases and edicts of the law additionally Landon Miller has a a large arsenal of guns. Yes, he does have many of guns. Which comes in handy whenever you are running out of words to say

Starting point is 00:24:08 to possibly combat, because all he's doing is really guessing basic terms that is going to say. Spray bullets indiscriminately. So, yeah, he can basically light him up. And there's only so much dodging you can do when you're that close quarter range, you get a shotgun with enough spread. Swiss cheese and them.

Starting point is 00:24:25 Let's go. I can go for some cheese. That's why Landon Miller is the best lawyer to have. That's right. Because when they're not cooperating bang bang Landon Miller does sound like the name of an attorney he does

Starting point is 00:24:37 Miller at law yeah you know your own practice you know you don't have a partner you're a solo act dude it also sounds like a like a hitman out of the Jack Reacher world dude yeah his name is Landon Miller he was in the Navy when I was working at the military police

Starting point is 00:24:54 it also sounds like a name that's like so random that we can't decide what direction we're going in a shadow anything it could be anything you could be anything you could be a None of these have been good enough for us yet. No. And so we're just beating a dead horse. We probably should have ended this a while ago

Starting point is 00:25:07 or had some type of idea what we're going into. You're a guy who opens up so many doors. He's like a Netflix subscription. At New Age conventions. With colloidal silver. He's a rabbi. Pyramid hats and stuff. Landon, please take care of your guns.

Starting point is 00:25:22 And we'll talk with each other soon. I think this is good enough for like five shoutouts. Ten. Thank you.

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