Snake in the Eagle's Shadow Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the "eagle's claw" style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.

Jackie Chan Yuen Siu-Tin Hwang Jang-Lee Dean Shek Roy Horan Fung Hak-On Charlie Chan Yiu-Lam Tino Wong Cheung Peter Chan Lung Hsu Hsia Fung Ging-Man Chiang Kam

action comedy

98 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Roman Rangel

    Review by Roman Rangel ★★★½

    Jackie Chan es uno de los mas carismaticos y talentosos representantes de las artes marciales en el cine. En "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" observamos a un joven Chan interpretando a un aprendiz de la tecnica del puño de serpiente bajo la tutoria del maestro Pai Chang-tien, quien es buscado por sus enemigos. Esto es practicamente todo el argumento de esta cinta, el resto son coreografias incesantes y un humor bastante ingenuo e infantil.
    "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" contiene todos los elementos de una cinta de artes marciales de los setentas (exagerado aun mas si la veen con su terrible doblaje en ingles). En realidad es una cinta muy divertida.

  • karlails

    Review by karlails ★★★½

    Basically the first Jackie Chan kung-fu comedy has a real feeling of fun, even though at times it just goes overboard into the totally ridiculous.
    It's inventive, funny, but essentially a pretty dumb movie. I certainly prefer Jackie's 80's movies to his early stuff.
    Still better than his Lo Wei movies of the same period, arguably even his best work from the 70's.

    "What a bitch. I hope she drops dead."

  • Jason Seaver

    Review by Jason Seaver ★★★★

    Ah, it's naive young Jackie Chan, working and living in a martial-arts school that treats him poorly because he's inept at fighting, at least until he befriends a secret kung fu master who teaches him the snake style, making him a target because the practitioners of the eagle style want to eliminate it due to some multi-generational feud.

    A goofy premise, but let's face it, fans still have trouble with people who enjoy the same thing in different ways. I, for instance, think the people who enjoy dubbed martial arts movies because they like laughing at things that seem low-rent are monsters for a variety of reasons, but I shouldn't begrudge them the fun they were having with this screening.…

  • Micha

    Review by Micha ★★★½ 2

    Jackie Chans snake style is worth a watch :)

  • Craig Daly

    Review by Craig Daly ★★★★½

    This film is awesome.
    One of the best Kung-fu films ever and probably Jackie Chan's 2nd best film (after Drunken Master).
    Some classic training scenes and brilliantly choreographed fight scenes (by the legendary Yuen Woo-Ping who directs this) and the great Siu Tien Yuen (who is actually Yuen Woo-Ping's father!) as the drunk old man, a role which he plays brilliantly, not just in this film.
    Overall a pure kung-fu classic.

  • Horcruxnelius Doubleboss

    Review by Horcruxnelius Doubleboss ★★★★

    fun. :>

  • mook

    Review by mook ★★★

    Entertaining combination of old school kung fu & comedy/slapstick, from Yuen Woo-ping & Jacki Chan. 6/10

  • Doug Tilley

    Review by Doug Tilley ★★★

    Sure, it's just a dry run for DRUNKEN MASTER, but it's still one of the most important kung-fu films ever released. Things would get tweaked significantly in the following few years, but there's still some great fights here and Jackie playing a bit of a different comedic character than what was to come. For this week's ENTER THE FIST.