The use of props and interaction with the sets gave a Jackie Chan flavour to the fights. Initially, that part didn’t exist but there was a necessity to stop his soldier character from being overly hard. Also, he said: “When I was first approached with my first film, The Shaolin Temple, they already felt I was mature for my age.”Īccording to Stephen Tung (the director and fight choreographer who played the teenage disciple of Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon), Jet and Gigi Lai’s relationship in the movie is lightly written. You tend to get the best idea of what someone is like when you don’t talk to them. Jet admitted to the press that he is usually quieter on film sets because it’s better to keep an eye on things that are happening. When the two weren’t involved in a scene, they would examine the merits and flaws of films as well as the mentality of older film-makers. Jet was actually wary of Eric because he had heard that he was always late to work on past movies, but a few days of working together led to a discovery that Eric is punctual. Eric felt that Jet was the shyest yet best-behaved fighting star that he has ever met. It should be pointed out that the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie was completed in July of that year. To put this into perspective, Jet had supposedly rejected the chance to co-star in Knock Off because of Lethal Weapon 4. Hitman beginning filming on September 17 in 1997. For all the talk about Eric’s interplay with Jet being like Bud Abbott having to put up with Lou Costello, off-camera chemistry took four days to form because of Jet being introverted. It’s sad because this would end up being Jet’s last H.K. In a way, I wish that they became a comedy pair as prolific as Stephen Chow paired up with Ng Man-Tat. There’s the mystery of the masked assassin, the delicacy of the light romance, the realism of the fights, and the inspired pairing of Eric Tsang alongside Jet – a winning mixture that hasn’t been used more. This movie is actually Jet’s second-best modern Hong Kong movie after High Risk. Even though Hitman was the original English title, the Chinese title is King of Killers. He was on a roll in 2001 with Kiss of the Dragon being a summer release, and the winter release of The One. This was the title that Columbia Tri-Star chose when they released this 1998 Jet Li movie on DVD in 2002’s New Year’s Day.
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