Project A is in my opinion the three brothers best work(Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao). It features great fight scenes, jaw-dropping stunts, well-played tongue-in-cheek humor, and a fun, complicated plot full of misunderstandings and amazing coincidences. It's just awesome and I'm gonna tell you why.Firstly, the story. Now since this is a Jackie Chan film, you don't expect to see a well-layered, complex story with poignant messages about the horrors of war and why should you? Jackie Chan's films are just made for entertainment. They aren't made to make you think about "what it means to be human" or "what is the definition of evil", they are films made to entertain and in that regard, Project A MORE than succeeds. The plot here is full of misunderstandings, amazing coincidences, and extraordinary cases of people being in places they shouldn't have been, and it's a lot of fun! While this movie, like a lot Chan's films, is really just goofy, slapstick humor after fight scene after goofy, slapstick humor, after fight scene, and repeat that pattern 100 times more, the plot here is so tongue-in-cheek and fast-paced, it'll keep you entertained the entire time. So yeah, there's certainly not a whole lot to talk about as it becomes very complicated if you try to describe it and there's no real character arcs or themes, I'll say this. The plot here is perfectly fun and entertaining and it'll keep you interested till the very end.More importantly, how are the fight scenes and stunts? They are GREAT! The fighting here is the usual Jackie Chan fighting style, people punching and kicking each other repeatedly without a whole lot of grace or obvious choreography integrated with Three Stooges-esque comedy, and a clever use of props as weapons. While the fights are just punches and kicks with no real gore, the various falls and hits that the stuntmen take do feel very real and brutal at times which is cool, as it makes the fights feel more real. Something lacking in his American films. Jackie here, is in his physical prime. He does some truly daring and creative stunts in this film without mentioning the most famous of which, the clock tower drop. While Sammo and Yuen don't do nearly the amount of hardcore stunts as Jackie does, their talent for comedy and screen fighting make up for it. Speaking of Sammo and Yuen, how's the rest of the cast? Well, since this is HK comedy, everybody does kinda play their part in an exaggerated manner. But with this sort of film, it works and the entire cast got me laughing at least once so I can't say they did particularly a bad job but I would say, that the villain, Pirate Lo, really should've gotten more screen time. They built him up the whole movie to be this big bad pirate but yet, when we meet him, he's just a very generic villain. But other than that, the cast is pretty solid and entertaining.There are some flaws with this film. While most of the film is light- hearted and tongue-in-cheek, there's some really dark and unsettling moments on occasion that are meant to be funny, but feel out of place. There's a scene where Yuen Biao orders one of his police cadets to be EXECUTED for laughing in class! Wow, that's just WAY too dark for this kind of movie and it makes Yuen look like a psychopath. Though, the guy fainted before they could shoot him so he changed the punishment to washing the bathroom instead. Still, a complete tone-killer for what's supposed to be a fun, breezy film. There's also scene where Jackie tries to get information from some pirate associate how to meet Pirate Lo but for some reason, Jackie gets SO mad at him, he starts beating the crap out of him with a baton! Seriously, was that necessary? I know he's supposed to be a righteous, compassionate guy who would never let bad things happen but was that really necessary? It's just too brutal for this type of film.But overall, it's a very funny, exciting film that showcases the three brothers'talent best out of all their collaborations. I recommend it to all martial arts fans.

It's the turn of the 19th century where Dragon Mi Young (Chan) is a coastguard who leads his men after the ruthless Lor Sam Pau and his band of cutthroat pirates who terrorise the South China seas (although most of the time is spent on dry land), but the government what to rid themselves of the coastguards which leaves Dragon quitting the force to get to them. The film that made Jackie Chan a superstar… quite possibly the launching pad for those dangerous stunts and the important turning point of his career in an iconic character trait. Whenever I think of Chan; "Police Story" and "Project A" always shoot to mind as these benchmark films truly captured the talent of their star by effortlessly blending the goofy psychical humour and martial arts with amazing fight (watch the many uses of a bicycle) and stunt sequences (like 'Clock-tower fall'). Hey that's not to say I don't enjoy his early work with the likes of "Drunken Master" and "The Young Master", but those former films he had control and cooked up some very innovative and mind-boggling ideas where as his earlier stuff he was quite limited especially due to the cheap budgets and quick shoots. Another exciting inclusion is that it fuses together the remarkable talents of three legendary martial art stars; Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Mao. The dependable combination of the three simply crackles as they work off each other with ease. Playing the bad guys you got the established Dick Wei leading the way as the cackling leader of the pirates Lor Sam Pau. The final fight sequence between the four at the pirates' den is a masterful display in its execution of frenetic acrobatic choreography. The dialog and drama is light (so there's few distractions), as the impact comes from the boundless set-pieces in what is a busy framework complemented by a rousing score and vivid backdrop. An excellent kung-fu period action adventure comedy with plenty of colourful imagination and non-stop excitement.

Although there were other Jackie Chan masterpieces before this, this is the movie that defined the future direction of Jackie Chan movies.Jackie Chan plays the role of a coast guard officer. They're involved in Project "A" to eradicate the pirates. Unbelievably funny acrobatic stunts, combined with comedy and timing seen in this movie sets the style. There were these elements in previous Jackie Chan movies, but they weren't as integrated as in this movie. The synergistic effect, made this movie twice as entertaining.This and the "Police Story" probably defined Jackie as the international super star. Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao also stars to add support. After this movie, Hong Kong movies starts to modernize, and becomes more experimental.Jackie Chan no longer stars in the traditional kung fu movies after this movie.Totally new kind of action movie that changed the course of Hong Kong movies.

Another completely over the top Jackie Chan adventure but fairly enjoyable if you are into this sort of thing.Jackie and his brothers fight pirates (!) off the coast of Hong Kong. That's the basic (nonsensical) plot which allows plenty of martial arts and overwrought Asian melodrama.Sadly Jackie is forced to share the limelight with other actors, who can't match his charisma or sheer athletic ability. The film is not as polished as his Police Story efforts or his recent Hollywood stuff (Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights), but makes for a decent home viewing choice.overall 6/10