The Jackie Chan Collection DVD Review

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The Jackie Chan Collection

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This 2-DVD set comes packaged in a regular plastic DVD case. There are eight films included. The first disc (which is double-sided) has Operation Condor (aka Armour of God 2, Operation Condor 2: The Armor of God (aka Armour of God), Dragon Lord, and Twin Dragons. The second disc (which is single-sided) contains Jackie Chan's Project A (aka Project A), Jackie Chan's Project A 2 (aka Project A II), Supercop (aka Police Story 3: Supercop), and The Accidental Spy. The cover art is from Operation Condor and features Jackie in the same black t-shirt he seemingly wore on all of the covers of the US versions of his films.

The DVDs are bare-bones, with only one or two menu screens per disc which don't look all that great, but they do get the job done.

The Movies

Echo Bridge licensed these films from Miramax/Dimension, so these are the versions present on the discs. This means they are English dubbed and, in some cases, cut and/or re-edited from their original Hong Kong release. So if you're looking for the definitive versions of these movies, this is definitely not the source. However, seeing as you can get this set for five dollars, it would still be worth picking up to have a cheap extra copy of these films or as a gift for a Jackie Chan neophyte.

The movies are presented in widescreen, and the picture quality falls in line for DVDs that have multiple films on them, meaning that there is artifacting and pixellation present, going from a little to a lot, depending on the feature you are watching. The soundtracks are in stereo and generally sound decent enough, though the volume level varies widely from film to film.

Screen captures from each movie are shown below:

The Jackie Chan Collection