Known professionally as Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor Fang Shilong is the son of Chinese immigrants. He is also a director, martial artist, and performer who is renowned for his inventive stunts, which he usually does himself, and his comical acrobatic fighting style. Since the 60s, Chan has been an actor, appearing in more than 150 motion pictures. His comedic talents are what keep many of his admirers coming back for more, alongside his fame as one of the world's best action film actors.
One of the most well-known and significant cinema figures in the world, Chan maintains a sizable fan base in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. His achievements have even earned him stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars. Many pop culture phenomena have mentioned Chan, including songs, animated series, movies, and video games. In addition to publishing music albums and singing theme songs for movies in which he has appeared, he is also an opera singer. A well-known philanthropist, Forbes magazine ranked him among the most charitable celebrities. Here are Jackie Chan’s best comedy films, ranked.
10 Vanguard
Vanguard is a 2020 film that tells the story of an accountant brought into a terrorist issue. Maasym, the head of the terrorist group Brothers of Vengeance, has forcedly hired Qin Guoli (Jackson Lou), a Chinese accountant working in Great Britain, to finance his mission. Agents Zhang Kaixuan (Ai Lun), Lei Zhenyu (Yang Yang), and Mi Ya (Miya Muqi) are dispatched to retrieve Qin by Tang Huanting (Chan), the head of the Vanguard, an international security firm tasked with protecting him. The Vanguard sneak inside the strongly guarded fortress with some local assistance and defend their asset. The film did not do very well, only receiving a 29% rating by critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Chan's acting abilities, however, are well-represented in the movie, and while some of his lines are delivered with great humor, this is mostly an action film.
9 Drunken Master
The 1978 martial arts comedy Drunken Master is a groundbreaking work in kung fu cinema. The story revolves around naive young Wong Fei-hung (Chan). To impress his pals, Wong makes moves on a lady, who is then brutalized by her older female guardian as a result. This is only one of the problems Wong encounters. It is subsequently discovered that these two are his aunt and cousin, who are in town, but he had never seen them before. Wong's father chooses to make him practice harder in martial arts as a form of discipline for his odd conduct. The movie made the distinctive animal fighting method of Zui Quan more popular. It came in third place on GamesRadar's list of the top 50 kung fu films of all time in 2017. The movie gave rise to multiple spin-offs and an official sequel called Drunken Master II.
8 The Medallion
The Medallion is a 2003 action comedy about Eddie (Chan), an unflappable Hong Kong police officer who is abruptly changed into a Highbinder, an eternal warrior with superhuman abilities, following a near-fatal accident involving a strange medallion. To discover the medallion's mystery and defeat the nefarious Highbinders, including the villainous Snakehead (Julian Sands), who are so keen to get their hands on it again, Eddie enlists the assistance of fellow spy Nicole (Claire Forlani). Chan is known for his hilarious one-liners, and the double entendre comedy lends the movie a considerably lighter tone.
7 Mr. Nice Guy
In the 1997 movie Mr. Nice Guy, the ironically named Jackie (Chan), a Chinese TV chef, unwittingly becomes entangled with Diana (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick), a news reporter who was filming a botched drug bust. A potentially dangerous mix-up occurs when the investigative journalist's damning footage of the gangsters and a children's DVD get mixed up. The kung fu fighting cook intervenes to save her from a group of bloodthirsty drug dealers. Due to how wonderfully tacky it is and how well Chan portrays it, the comedy in this movie is great.
6 Around the World in 80 Days
Based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel of the same name, Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 American action adventure comedy film. It is a remake of the 1956 film of the same name. The plot of the movie, which is set in the 19th Century, concentrates on Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), who is recast as an eccentric scientist who attempts to go around the world in 80 days. He is accompanied by Passepartout, his Chinese valet (Chan), on the journey. The movie purposefully strayed far from the original for humorous purposes and included a lot of out-of-place elements. It was one of the most expensive movies ever made without a distribution company connected before Disney opted to distribute it.
5 Police Story
Chan, who also authored the screenplay alongside Edward Tang, directed and starred in the action comedy Police Story in 1985. Selina Fong (Brigitte Lin), the case's key witness, is protected from retaliation by Ka-Kui (Chan), a Hong Kong police detective who ends up going rogue in order to oust a drug lord and clear his own name after being falsely accused of murder. Police Story created a new benchmark for fighting and comedy mayhem that would impact generations of filmmakers. It was jam-packed with endearingly goofy humor and breathtakingly acrobatic fight choreography, featuring a massive shopping mall brawl of flying fists and shattered glass. According to Polygon, on February 1, 2019, a 4K reconstruction of the movie, along with its sequel Police Story 2, was given a limited North American theatrical release.
4 Shanghai Noon
The action comedy martial arts movie called Shanghai Noon was released in 2000. In China's Forbidden City, the bumbling Chon Wang (Chan) serves as an imperial guard. Wang chases the kidnapers of Princess Pei Pei (played Lucy Liu) to Nevada's rugged frontier, where he encounters amiable thief and sometimes cowboy Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson). Wang persuades O'Bannon to assist in finding the princess by appealing to his love of money. The two then forge a unique alliance that the West has never seen before. The film stars both the funny Wilson and the equally hilarious Chan, letting viewers know just how amusing it will be, and the fact that it is set in the Wild West makes the background of their conversations considerably funnier. Metacritics’ critics gave Shanghai Noon a 77% in favorable reviewsm leading to a sequel, Shanghai Knights. A third film Shanghai Dawn, was supposed to be released in 2017, but at the time of this writing, there have been very few updates on the production status.
3 The Spy Next Door
In the 2010 movie The Spy Next Door, Chan plays Bob Ho, a Chinese agent on loan to the CIA who falls in love with Gillian, his divorced neighbor. The issue is that Gillian's kids dislike Bob because they view him as an uninteresting nerd. When Gillian gets a call to travel out of the state to be with her dad, who is having hip surgery, Bob is poised to inform her about his history. In order to win the kids over, Bob looks after the kids while she's gone. However, a Russian criminal escapes the CIA's grasp, and Gillian's intelligent son has accessed a confidential document from Bob's computer that the antagonist would do everything to get rid of. Seeing Chan engage with the kids and using his slap-stick humor more extensively makes this movie significantly funnier.
2 Kung Fu Panda
In 2008, DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures released the computer-animated superhero martial arts comedy Kung Fu Panda, the first film in the franchise. The film stars Chan as Master Monkey, an easy-going golden snub-nosed monkey who is a member of the Furious Five, a group of kung fu masters who live in the Jade Palace under the guidance of Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman). It is up to the Furious Five to train Po (Jack Black), the unlikely hero who loves noodles, to become the true Dragon Warrior in spite of his many flaws. It was reported that a fourth film in the Kung Fu Panda franchise will release in 2024, but it is not yet clear if Chan will reprise his role as he has in the previous films.
1 Rush Hour
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Rush Hour is a 1998 American buddy action comedy movie that was written by Jim Kouf and Ross LaManna and directed by Brett Ratner. As the two police officers from opposite worlds — Detective Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan), a Hong Kong detective, and Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker), an FBI agent and a loudmouthed, work-alone Los Angeles officer — discover they have nothing in common, tensions rise. They must work together to apprehend the culprits and save Soo Yung (Julia Hsu), an eleven-year-old Chinese girl who is the daughter of the Chinese consul, as time is running out. The movie's box office triumph, which, according to Rotten Tomatoes, brought in over $140 million in the USA, inspired two sequels with the apt names, Rush Hour 2 and Rush Hour 3.