I only saw this when I was round a friend's house a few years ago. I had to restrain myself from falling asleep.

The plot was rubbish, the dubbing was among the worst I'd ever seen, the acting was rank and the whole story was a bore. Its only redeeming feature is seeing Jackie as a baddie, and even that's not enough to save it from the mire.

All Jackie Chan fans - STEER WELL CLEAR OF THIS ONE!

One in a handful of early Jackie Chan films picked up by cheap distributors and renamed to make them sound like some early action outing for the stunt-mad starrer, YOUNG TIGER is a bottom-of-the-barrel example of kung fu movie-making from the mid 1970s. A contemporary tale of cops and robbers, and innocent folk turned heroes, this short-but-boring story mixes in some minor scenes of action with a predictable plot involving a vital document and the attempts to retrieve it by a criminal gang. I couldn't even tell you what this document was, as my attention was wandering so much during the course of the production through sheer boredom. Of course it inevitably turns out that only a young, innocent and heroic taxi driver has the power to combat the criminals. A taxi driver played by...

If you said JACKIE CHAN just now you would be sorely mistaken. Instead, some relative unknown plays the part of the hero and I can barely remember his face twenty minutes after it finished, so that shows how memorable he is as an actor and fighter. Instead, our hero Jackie is relegated to a fairly minor role as one of the criminal henchmen set out to antagonise the heroic character. Jackie does get to take part in some martial arts action but it's far from his best work, although a brief stint hanging to the roof of a speeding car foreshadows his later affection for dangerous stunt work and on-the-edge heroics. Sadly, the most memorable thing about Jackie is the huge unsightly wart the film-makers have stuck to his cheek, possibly to make him look less normal and more evil as a bad guy. The result is ludicrous.

Elsewhere, the film suffers from appallingly stilted dialogue - expect long pauses of silence and no attempts at lip-syncing anywhere in the production - which occasionally lapses into Cantonese at some moments. The picture quality is cheap and poor, made worse by terrible cropping which removes half of the picture and most of Jackie's presence from the film. The characters are uninteresting, the script mundane, and not an ounce of originality or imagination has gone into the production at any particular point. In fact, it's so routine in every low budget way imaginable that I have got to rate it as one of the worst I've seen. Definitely a film to be avoided by all but the most ardent of kung fu fans.

This film is decent enough 'bargain-bin' entertainment if you ignore the misleading description. It was clearly made before Jackie Chan became well known; he plays one of the villains and is far from being the main character… that doesn't stop his name appearing in large letter on the box along with his picture! This unfortunately creates an entirely wrong impression of what to expect.

The story involves a woman who flees from a gang in a taxi; she is seriously unwell and asks to be taken to hospital. On the way she dies but not before she stashes a purse in the taxi. It contains evidence against the gang and they want it back. This proves troublesome for the taxi driver, Chin Chen, who has no knowledge of the purse. The gang repeatedly attack him to demand the return of the purse, they search his house and even send a woman who claims to be the dead girl's sister to retrieve the purse. Soon afterwards her real sister, a police woman, turns up and works with Chen to expose the gang…something that will inevitably put them in danger.

Once I'd got over the fact that this wasn't really a Jackie Chan movie I rather enjoyed it; yes it was distinctly low budget but the story was solid enough and the fight scenes were entertaining even if they weren't particularly intense. Charlie Chin is a likable lead as taxi driver Chin Chen and the rest of the cast are decent enough. The version I watched was dubbed into English; this dub wasn't too bad for the most part although at one point the dialogue disappeared for a couple of minutes during what may have been a key scene! It was also presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio that rather than following the action appeared to just show the centre of the original widescreen version; this mean if a the person talking was at the edge of the original picture we just got an off-screen voice which was rather odd. Overall this wasn't a bad film and having seen this version I can only think a wide screen sub-titled version would be better.