The Killer Meteors (1976) **/*****
A bait and switch movie from early in Jackie Chan's career. Granted the trap wasn't set until years later once Jackie became a big star and Jimmy Wang Yu's star faded, but a trap nonetheless.
This is actually a Wang Yu venture featuring Jackie in a supporting role with barely any screen time..
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Hoo, boy... I'm in for a rough ride with this one. This movie is an incoherent mess, it is a wuxia film that features the worst wire work I have seen thus far (the Captain Marvel [Shazam] serial of the 40's. has more believable wirework) The fight choreography is poorly staged, doing Wang Yu no favors whatsoever and undermining Jackie Chan as well. It is slow, painful, and almost embarrassing to watch. I don't understand exactly what the rhythm and the pacing of the fights were trying to accomplish. They only seemed to exist to embarrass the combatants.
