For Chan’s directorial debut it was better than I expected, although it really wasn’t that great. Its pretty similar to Drunken Master, but I don’t know if that’s because the movie is falling into tropes of the genre or actually emulating that movie. Every martial arts movie needs to give a reason for why people are fighting. Drunken Master while forced, felt somewhat reasonable. Whereas with this movie it felt a lot more forced, which is probably due to Chan’s inexperience. Some of the fight scenes do go wayyy longer than they really should, too.
In the first couple scenes there was some strange decisions with swapping to a weird fisheye lens, and stretching the frame… which the movie promptly stopped doing. If you’re gonna do some weird stuff, you can’t just give up on it!