Who Am I? (1998)

the audience applauded

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Great action packed Identity questioning Martial Arts Classic. Recommended viewing for film buffs and action movie freaks. Jackie Chan is great at stunt work. It's one of the films that launched his career as a Martial Arts Hero of China. Watch for yourself and judge accordingly.

This was made at a time when Jackie Chan was allowed to be Jackie, doing his amazing stunts and all without a care for the world. Then Hollywood beckoned.Anyway, about half of this movie is set in some African country, and then Jackie does one of the most incredible stunts of all time in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He manages to slide down an incredibly steep glass building - I wondered, how on earth did he do it??!! I mean, would he do it in the first place? No CGI, no wires, no nothing, just Jackie's bravery and wow, absolutely unforgettable and full-on. Anything could have gone wrong, but thankfully Jackie lived and provide the audience with one of the best stunts in movie history.

Jackie Chan's movie has become modernized since Thunderbolt, and his association with Mitsubishi motors stronger. This movie is the end point or the apex of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong production before he really broke into Hollywood with Rush Hour. Most if not all of his movie since has been of international caliber, not confined to the Asian market.Jackie Chan is a secret operations commando. He loses his memory while on a mission in South Africa. He gets picked up by the local tribe, then meets a rally driver and saves her brother's life. He becomes somewhat of a local celebrity, but his old colleagues, and South African intelligence is after him.Jackie Chan is the first Asian asides from the Japanese to successfully created movies of international caliber, and he did this all by himself. The production of this movie is clearly beyond that of traditional Hong Kong movies, and refined to the point of international standards. The movie is beautifully shot, with exciting action scenes that only Jackie Chan seems to be able to create.This movie has bit more action, and less comedy. Viewer's opinion may vary depending on which side of Jackie Chan movie they prefer to see more of.

I saw this film on TV recently, not having heard of it before. It started off quite slowly and was not that interesting. But being a fan of Jackie Chan, I decided to persist with it as I knew it would get better.The bad points: near the start of the film, there is a scene where soldiers are disembarking from a truck, and you can see one of them put his foot on the head of another by mistake. Then a bit later there is a scene with some top brass officials having a meeting. The acting in that scene is some of the worst I have ever seen. Absolutely awful, worst part of the whole film. Throughout the film we do not know who the man is, and he is known as "Who Am I", except in one scene when the officials who are looking for him actually refer to him as Jackie Chan. I am not sure if this was a slip-up or the character was meant to be called Jackie Chan, although no other reference to his name is made.Good points: after he meets the rally driver whose brother gets poisoned and he heals the man, from then on it gets interesting. Some good car chases, fight scenes and 2 cute Chinese women. The scenes in Holland are good too, some interesting architecture. Overall I think the plot is a good one, but the lost in Africa and being part of the tribe seems to have not been explored enough, and nor did he return to the tribe despite promising to return something to a boy. And the whole bit where is with the tribe could have been written a lot better.I liked the film, it was a decent enough film and a pleasant few hours of watching TV. But not a film that would win any awards.