Jackie's Role: Ah Lung, a young and lazy troublemaker who is trying to get with a girl only to be caught up in some major Chinese artifact heist. The Bad Guy: Hwang In-shik, a Korean hapkido grand master who is probably amongst Jackie's most badass opponents, but is really only in this movie to flaunt his skills and to be the most intimidating one-eyed thief possible. The Fight: The final barn fight is probably Jackie's most acrobatic and stunt-heavy bout. In place of the usual display of choreographed punching and blocking, somersaults, back-flips, and improvised flying kicks are in abundance as the epic fight takes place across the barn's roof and ground levels. There's sand (and wheat) thrown in eyes, Jackie getting his face kicked in by Hwang's crazy footwork, both fighters constantly using the environment to their advantage, and Jackie getting thrown off the roof level (twice). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0sY6qpzhxs This is probably less of a martial arts display and more akin to an improvised street fight, but the unusually juvenile tone of it all makes it all the more entertaining, especially when the fight ends with the big bad getting smothered with sacks of grain rather than the usual Jackie knock-out.
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