Fearless Hyena continues for about 45 seconds after the main villain is defeated, which is basically an epilogue by martial arts movie standards.
I have always felt like Jackie Chan was really in his element in the 1980s and throughout a good bit of the 1990s, so his late 1970s stuff has never been quite as appealing to me. With Fearless Hyena, I felt about what I was expecting. It's uneven, but the parts that work do admittedly really work, and it's during the better action scenes where you can already see Jackie Chan nearing the height of his powers.
Fearless Hyena is very silly for the first hour or so, and I was with it for a while before getting restless. Then, the tone shifts jarringly, and I felt like the movie lost me even more. Thankfully, in typical martial arts movie style, Fearless Hyena saved the best for last, and the final 15 minutes or so were pretty great; it's basically worth a watch for that whole finale alone, with Chan's physicality being as fun to watch as ever.
It's a lesser-known film for Chan, and one where he was both director and the lead actor. It's competent stuff punctuated by a few sequences of greatness; some brief ones near the beginning and then a lengthy one near the end. It's not his finest hour, by any means, but I had a pretty decent time with it overall.
I have always felt like Jackie Chan was really in his element in the 1980s and throughout a good bit of the 1990s, so his late 1970s stuff has never been quite as appealing to me. With Fearless Hyena, I felt about what I was expecting. It's uneven, but the parts that work do admittedly really work, and it's during the better action scenes where you can already see Jackie Chan nearing the height of his powers.
Fearless Hyena is very silly for the first hour or so, and I was with it for a while before getting restless. Then, the tone shifts jarringly, and I felt like the movie lost me even more. Thankfully, in typical martial arts movie style, Fearless Hyena saved the best for last, and the final 15 minutes or so were pretty great; it's basically worth a watch for that whole finale alone, with Chan's physicality being as fun to watch as ever.
It's a lesser-known film for Chan, and one where he was both director and the lead actor. It's competent stuff punctuated by a few sequences of greatness; some brief ones near the beginning and then a lengthy one near the end. It's not his finest hour, by any means, but I had a pretty decent time with it overall.