Eagle Shadow Fist aka Fist of Anger aka Not Scared to Die(1973)

This movie has several titles, and it’s rotten no matter what you call it. Was going to skip this one altogether, but Jackie does have one brief fight scene in it, and I’m nothing if not thorough. This flick has really hammy “Japanese” villains, and the prerequisite attempted rape that I’m noticing is super common with films in this era. The hero sucked, the villains sucked. It all sucked.

Jackie’s only fight in this is a brief one. He attempts to help some people being antagonized by the evil Japanese. It’s a decent, athletic fight while it lasts, with Jackie being in tremendous condition, and looking very crisp. A bit of a waste of his talent, as many of his early roles were, but the sharpness was there. Not much to it. (Rating 1/10)

My final verdict is to skip this. Not even a fan of Jackie Chan should watch this turd. The bad thing is, it’s not even the worst movie I’ll review in this project, but I still feel bad for wasting the bandwidth to post this. Not as bad as his quasi-adult film, but almost as offensive.

There will be a large gap in his filmography from here to his next film that we review. Chan wrote in his autobiography how frustrated he was with the Shaw Brothers studio at this time, because he felt like he wasn’t able to do some of the things he wanted to in his movies, and he was often relegated to stuntman or extra in many of these. That will change in a few years after this, but he has to run his duty as fake Bruce Lee and star in a couple of bad Shaw films first.