Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Steineded How sad is this?

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Joe Bit of a surprise this film. Recorded it as was a Jackie Change film. Seen numerous of his films over the years when I was a kid, but tended to avoid his latest stuff which was just dirge. This though looked and sounded different.Note, there's no martial arts, there's no comedy and there's no 'Jackie'. He practically doesn't even smile. Instead we have Jackie Chan playing it straight as an illegal immigrant to Japan from China, aiming to make a living. Up against it, he and his cohorts get tangled up in the local mafia problems, and find that crime is their only way to survive. Some though have their limits, others don't know when to stop.This was an interesting enough movie, and Jackie Chan shows he has good acting ability away from his comedy family friendly fare. Ably assisted by a good ensemble and some good cinematography, the whole piece is well put together.Yet it still lacks something. It doesn't help that despite the change, Jackie Chan is still at the end playing the little guy with a heart and soul. There could have been a bit better developed story too. It wasn't bad but nothing special, yet was still good. Reverting to type for Jackie Chan's character in the last quarter was not a good move I think.It's a fair film, and if you like your Asian gangster movies then this is not a bad choice. For Jackie Chan it was nice to see a change, but it's also a lost opportunity too.

gabthum-1 "Shinjuku Incident" has been much publicized as Jackie Chan's first venture into dramatic acting. The film will not feature any of Chan's trademark screen action/comedy but instead focuses mostly on the dramatic story.Chan plays Steelhead, a Chinese farmer who enters Japan illegally in search of his girlfriend Xiu Xiu (Xu Jinglei). Steelhead meets up with his friend, Jie (Daniel Wu) in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo and works odd jobs to earn money. Steelhead then gets involved with a local yakuza leader, Eguchi (Masaya Kato) and rises to power to become the first Chinese to hold a position in the yakuza. This angers the other members of the criminal organization as they despised the Chinese. In the end, they plot to bring down Eguchi and Steelhead."Shinjuku Incident" is a combination of immigrant drama and gangster thriller. The film shows the audience that life as an illegal immigrant in Japan isn't easy - they are discriminated by the Japanese, struggles to earn money by working odd jobs and have to run whenever the cops show up. The film also briefly explores the world of the Japanese yakuza organization. Overall, Derek Yee did a good job in balancing between the two genres.So, how is Jackie Chan's performance in his first dramatic role? Well, he isn't a bad actor and although he tries very hard, he doesn't seem believable as the character Steelhead. There are moments in the film when Steelhead gets involved in street fights and I secretly hope that he will kick some serious ass. Sadly, that never happened. Maybe it's just me but I feel that casting Jackie Chan as Steelhead is very distracting to the film itself.In short, "Shinjuku Incident" is entertaining and sometimes violent but those who are familiar with Jackie Chan's legendary screen persona will have a hard time accepting his against-type portrayal of the film's lead character.

shoobe01-1 First, don't see this if you like Jacky Chan movies. Don't even read this review. Just go away. Sure, you might like it, but I think on average you are too likely to love comedy action above all else, and then you give it a bad review. Think of it instead like Goodfellas. Add a bit more of the pure immigrant story. Trying to make your way from the under-class. Crime because that's all you can do. Changing of the guard in the mob. Getting rank and power because you are reliable, getting screwed because you have some sense of morals, and try to protect your family. There is no absolutely good or evil, at all. People we hate at one moment evolved to that, and even then still act like humans. It's an epic crime family drama in every way and truly well made. Gore: Except for a few just terrible effects, Is correct for the location and genre. Just as many killings with guns would have seemed less violent due to the way firearms wounds are mostly depicted in movies. Knives and swords offer much more visible wounds, and so on. DO NOT watch a dubbed version. It's a drama. The dubbing is terrible so it is just not worth it.

Dan Ashley (DanLives1980) In the same vein as JCVD, this very surprising offering from Jackie Chan sees the aging kung-fu legend as a savvy mafia man leading Chinese Triads in a turf war against the Yakuza in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, based on a real life incident.'Steelhead' played by Chan, is a Chinese peasant fixing farm machinery for a pittance. When the girl he is set to marry travels to Japan and doesn't come back, he follows hundreds of other illegal immigrants across the border and learning to survive on the streets, under the radar and working illegally.With the government's stringent efforts to stop all illegal immigrants working in Japan, Steelhead and his street brothers learn how to hustle and work the black market but when Japanese crime syndicates become the bane of their existence, Steelhead leads his own people to fight them and unwittingly saves the life of highly respected Yakuza boss Eguchi, who it turns out has married his fiancée.In return, Eguchi grants Steelhead power and space to operate, providing Steelhead becomes his personal hit-man but when Steelhead's Triad syndicate starts to grow more powerful, events escalate until only war is inevitable. The only man who might stop it is Inspector Kitano, a detective whose life Steelhead selflessly saved while on the run.The Shinjuku Incident is clever in the way that it manages to be bloody and violent yet moral and sometimes sympathetic and having no kung fu fights whatsoever. Chan is brilliant as the peasant turned reluctant mafia boss, a man who turned to harmless crime to survive who was drawn to greater evils to protect those he cared about.If anything it's the moral opposite of Scarface, only it reaches much the same conclusion, that people see power corrupting ordinary men, when it's just corruption that corrupts power, which affects even the best of us.Chan doesn't go to such brave limits of acting as Van Damme did in 2008's JCVD but he acts his pants off anyway and shows what he's worth outside of the dangerous stunts he's known for. And bangs a hooker, and gets drunk, and stabs people to death, and shoots gangsters in broad daylight.It's not Infernal Affairs but it's one hell of an achievement of the world's long time favourite kung-fu action star!