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A cop searches for the gang that killed her sister with the aid of a taxi driver who’s being harassed by the same gang.<\/p>\n
After starring in Little Tiger Of Canton<\/a>, Jackie Chan went right back into stuntwork playing an extra in a few roles here and there.\u00a0 Jackie worked again with Bruce Lee in Fist Of Fury<\/strong>, and the following year starred in yet another film called Eagle Shadow Fist<\/a>.\u00a0 That film would reunite Chan with fellow China Drama Academy alumni member Qiu Yuen, who would make her starring feature debut the following year in The Heroine<\/strong>.\u00a0 Jackie, of course, was taken along for the ride.<\/p>\n Starting off with a mole-faced Jackie Chan as a gang leader (what?\u00a0 Jackie’s a bad guy?) who attacks an innocent couple, the movie announces its menacing intent immediately.\u00a0 But as if to counter that point, we are then introduced to Qiu Yuen’s cop character, beating a different gang and eventually holding one at knifepoint.\u00a0 It is here, right at the start, that the problems begin appearing with the movie.<\/p>\n To start, the film seems far too zoomed in, with much of the dialog being uttered just off screen.\u00a0 Our main character, once introduced, soon disappears and then does so sporadically throughout the duration of the movie.\u00a0 In fact, I wasn’t sure just who the main character actually was until about halfway through the film.\u00a0 In doing so, the filmmakers have made a remarkably confusing plot for such an incredibly simple narrative.\u00a0 They seem to have a message to make with the movie, but every point, when made, is immediately countered by a contradictory scene.\u00a0 The characters complain about the violence in cinema, but then are in a film containing fight scene after fight scene.<\/p>\n The story is really about government control and the responsibility of the average citizen to assist the police force in any way possible.\u00a0 Three years before Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver<\/strong>, The Heroine<\/strong> already had a cabbie (played here by Charlie Chin) becoming so chafed by the city’s crime-ridden streets he decides to do something about it himself.\u00a0 Blame is placed squarely on the media, who have apparently influenced the youth to a disturbing degree.\u00a0 In the cabbie’s own, English-dubbed dialog with his pals:<\/p>\n Cabbie: “Look there.\u00a0 All those books… they’re one of many contributing factors to crime.\u00a0 I mean, they’re full of sex or violence.\u00a0 And either way, they corrupt the young.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Pal #1: “If that’s the case, why don’t they ban the books?”<\/strong><\/p>\n Pal #2: “Listen to him.”<\/strong> *turns to cabbie* “Yeah, you’re right.\u00a0 Go on.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Cabbie: “Well, there’s another factor.\u00a0 All these films we get about violence.\u00a0 The kids are very impressionable.\u00a0 I mean, they see all these films and they wanna imitate their heroes.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Pal #1: “What heroes, though?\u00a0 All they see is robbers, rapists, muggers and murderers!\u00a0 For God’s sake, they’re supposed to be heroes?”<\/strong><\/p>\n Cabbie:\u00a0 “Ha.\u00a0 I know that.\u00a0 So do you.\u00a0 But the kids don’t.\u00a0 It’s not their fault.\u00a0 It’s all the producers, writers and the directors.\u00a0 They present all these criminal types as semi-heroes.\u00a0 Kids just don’t discriminate, it looks very glamorous.\u00a0 They got a lot to answer for, I tell you.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Pal #1: “If I was the government, I’d just ban the whole lot!\u00a0 The whole damn lot.\u00a0 The books, the films.”<\/strong><\/p>\n They then proceed to talk, nonchalantly, about shooting people opposed to this sort of trampling of freedom of speech.\u00a0 Fuck those liberal bastards.\u00a0 This conversation comes completely out of nowhere.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure the film was written around this exchange so they could get their message to the masses.\u00a0 Fuck you, Chinese Cultural Revolution!<\/p>\n Of course, the real reason I watched the movie was to see Jackie Chan.\u00a0 He is in the film, no doubt, but the movie simply isn’t good enough to warrant a viewing from anyone but the most stalwart fans.\u00a0 It’s shot poorly, has a confused script, an unengaging lead without her due screentime, and an embarrassingly fascist message.<\/p>\n Qiu Yuen is Inspector Ho Mei<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Yuen plays the role as a typical female who also happens to be a cop.\u00a0 She asks a lot of questions, gets captured, and kicks ass when the script says so.\u00a0 If only she was in the film some more!<\/p>\n A woman dies abruptly in a cab, seemingly from opium withdrawal.\u00a0 It’s possible Jackie’s gang killed the two lovebirds in the beginning of the flick, but it’s certainly not shown on screen.\u00a0 Pretty damn light.<\/p>\n Charlie Chin vs. Jackie Chan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n During the final battle, Charlie and Jackie take turns chasing each other with cars, fighting atop the vehicles, and finally resorting to kung fu combat.\u00a0 And while there is no way in hell Chin could defeat the young and virile Chan (who was 19 at the time) in real life, I think they do a decent enough job making us believe it.\u00a0 It’s easily the best fight of the film.<\/p>\n Not much to say here.\u00a0 There is one guy in Jackie’s gang who likes to wear a vest with no shirt, but looks can be deceiving.<\/p>\n Our protagonist, though a cop, is still a chick.\u00a0 This means she gets captured, but fortunately she easily escapes.\u00a0 But just before you write this one off as a film about empowerment, I’d like to introduce to you the two opium addicted sleazebags featured herein.<\/p>\n One of these girls, Yuen’s sister, starts all the chaos in the first place.\u00a0 It appears our main baddie is kidnapping these women and hooking them on drugs to make them his slaves of some kind.\u00a0 She escapes the clutches of the gang for a few minutes, only to die in the back seat of the first cab to pick her up.\u00a0 Wuss.\u00a0 The other girl is just another druggie, crawling on all fours and shaking for a fix.\u00a0 She can’t even get her orders right, being sent on a couple missions to retrieve incriminating evidence against the gang.\u00a0 She tries at first, but far too quickly gives up on using any sort of tact and resorts to crying for the object in question.<\/p>\n The big fight at the end of the movie between Jackie Chan, his fellow lackeys, and the cop and the cabbies.\u00a0 Despite getting his ass kicked for much of the entire film, Charlie Chin manages to take on several guys and Jackie himself.\u00a0 Qiu Yuen pretty much owns the scene though, hardly getting a scratch on her.\u00a0 She kicks a lot of ass.<\/p>\n Earlier, the main baddie has Qiu Yuen captured.\u00a0 He digs through her purse and discovers her police identification card and laughs at the thought of a female cop:\u00a0 “Don’t make me laugh.\u00a0 You women police, the only thing you can do is hand out parking tickets.”<\/strong><\/p>\n After beating down all his men and capturing him, Yuen finally retorts: “Now then, what was that crack?\u00a0 The one about parking tickets?”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The state should really crack down on violent media.\u00a0 Those drug dealers certainly aren’t the problem.<\/p>\n [THE CHALK-OUTLINE] The Heroine (1973) a.k.a. Ru jing cha a.k.a. Rumble In Hong Kong a.k.a. Police Woman: Breakdown by Kain424 A cop searches for the gang that killed her sister with the aid of a taxi driver who’s being harassed by the same gang. [THE EXECUTION] After starring in Little Tiger Of Canton, Jackie Chan … Read moreJackie Chan Moles And Policewomen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1743],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-the-heroine-jackie-chan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allouttabubblegum.com\/new-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/21.jpg\" "\\"A")
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<\/p>\n[HOW BAD-ASS IS THE MAIN CHARACTER?]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
![\"Qiu](\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/31.jpg\" "\\"Qiu")
<\/p>\n[THE BODY COUNT: 1 but maybe 3]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
[MOST SATISFYING ASS-KICKING]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
![\"Jackie](\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/71.jpg\" "\\"Jackie")
<\/p>\n[DUDESWEAT AND MACHISMO]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
[EXPLOITATION AND MISOGYNY]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
![\"Interesting](\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/41.jpg\" "\\"Interesting")
<\/p>\n[EPIC MOMENT AND BEST ONE-LINER]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
[THE MORAL OF THE STORY]<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
[THE GIST OF JACKIE: 3 outta 5]<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
[X] Breaks Into Someplace Or Escapes By Way Of Acrobatics
\n[\u00a0 ] Has An Annoying Tag-Along Companion
\n[\u00a0 ] Makes The ‘OW!’ Face And\/Or Rubs A Soar Spot
\n[X] Performs A Ridiculously Dangerous Stunt
\n[X] Uses A Random Object To Defend Himself<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n[THE CHECKLIST: 12 outta 25]<\/span><\/h2>\n
[X] Athlete(s) Turned \u201cActor\u201d
\n[X] Clinging To The Outside Of A Moving Vehicle
\n[X] Crotch Attack
\n[\u00a0 ] Dialogue Telling Us How Bad-Ass The Main Character(s) Is\/Are
\n[\u00a0 ] Ending Featuring An Ambulance, A Blanket or A Towel
\n[X] Factory\/Warehouse
\n[\u00a0 ] Giant Explosion(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Heavy Artillery
\n[X] Improvised Weapon(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Macho Mode(s) Of Transportation
\n[\u00a0 ] Main Character Sports Facial Accessory(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Manly Embrace(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Notorious Stunt-Man Sighting
\n[\u00a0 ] Passage(s) Of Time Via Montage
\n[X] Politically Fueled Plot Point(s)
\n[X] Senseless Destruction Of Property
\n[\u00a0 ] Shoot Out(s) and\/or Sword Fight(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Slow-Motion Finishing Move(s)\/Death(s)
\n[X] Stupid Authoritative Figure(s)
\n[X] Substance Usage and\/or Abuse
\n[\u00a0 ] Tis The Season
\n[X] Torture Sequence(s)
\n[\u00a0 ] Unnecessary Sequel
\n[X] Vehicle Chase(s)
\n[X] Vigilante Justice<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"Holy](\"http:\/\/www.allouttabubblegum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Holy-Moley.jpg\" "\\"Holy")
<\/p>\nHoly Moley!<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"