Rumble in the Bronx (1996)
Directed by Stanley Tong
87 minutes
Rumble in the Bronx — largely filmed 3,000 miles away in Vancouver, British Columbia — put Jackie Chan on the map in the US. More akin to Buster Keaton than to Jet Li, Chan developed his signature cinematic style by embedding an ultrakinetic style of slapstick comedy in the seedy world of transnational organized crime. Rumble , for instance, pairs a goofball set piece of Chan waterskiing in sneakers behind a speeding hovercraft on Vancouver's False Creek with a tableau of a rival gang leader being fed to a woodchipper against the backdrop of the picturesque Burke Mountain range. –CB