Dragon Fist

Dragon Fist
(1979)

Directed by Lo Wei
Starring Jackie Chan, Nora Miao, James Tien

Rating: ******
              4/6

A young Jackie Chan
Gets royally pissed
When his master dies
In Dragon Fist.

His master has just won
A Kung Fu contest,
When his enemy challenges him
To another contest.

The man throws a kick
To his head like a knife.
The matter settled,
He goes home to his wife.

Alas, she has killed herself
For her husband so hated
Jackie’s Master
Because they had once dated.

To atone for his sins,
He cuts off his leg,
And make sure
To do penance that day.

Years later, Jackie,
Now good with Kung Fu,
Brings his master’s widow,
And their daughter, too,

To the house of the man
Who had murdered his Master.
He visits him,
And then gets out faster.

He will not fight
A lowly cripple.
His revenge unfulfilled,
He cries on his nipples.

An evil Master
Of a criminal clan,
Interferes with the life
Of Jackie Chan.

He poisons the woman
Who was once the wife
Of Jackie’s Master.
Now she might lose her life.

The doctor can’t
Figure out what’s wrong.
She’s very ill,
And hasn’t long.

Miraculously,
The evil man
Gives a drug
To Jackie Chan.

This medicine really
Seems to help,
But she needs more and more,
And the villain needs help.

He offers to give Jackie
The drugs he needs then
If he will work with
His gangster men.

Jackie agrees,
And commit some crimes,
And feels terrible
All the time.

This isn’t one of
His better films.
It’s actually a quite
Unmemorable film.

Jackie’s acting
Is good, of course,
But this character,
For him is worse

Because it doesn’t fit him,
Not at all,
And the storytelling’s
A little dull.

You can seek it out,
But I’ll give it no more
Than a rather unremarkable
Four.