<p>Jackie Chan belongs right up there with <a href="http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jetli.html">Jet Li</a>, and <a href="http://www.badassoftheweek.com/brucelee.html">Bruce Lee</a> as one of the three most dominating kung fu movie stars in film history.&nbsp; He's lightning quick, resourceful, agile, funny and completely out of his mind.</p>
<p>Jackie Chan got his start in the Chinese Opera, which sounds kind of fruity but in actuality is pretty freaking rad.&nbsp; Those guys can really backflip their asses off, and it was there that Jackie became adept at tumbling, leaping, kicking shit and being awesome.&nbsp; Eventually he progressed to kung fu films and had the good luck of being on screen just long enough to have his neck snapped by Bruce Lee in <em>Enter the Dragon</em>.&nbsp; Jackie eventually wound up with starring roles in several Hong Kong action films and over the years has grown into one of China's biggest celebrities.&nbsp; Basically, he rules.</p>
<p>One of the things that kicks ass about Jackie Chan movies is that he has his own distinct style that makes every film different and enjoyable.&nbsp; He has the ability to laugh at himself and crack jokes on camera, which is more than can be said for some of these self-proclaimed hardasses that think they're too tough to smile or get poked in the eye or something.&nbsp; Plus, Jackie Chan is awesome when it comes to improvising weapons and beating the hell out of people with random household items.&nbsp; Sure, kung fu films have featured people being beaten with pool cues or table legs or stuff like that, but Jackie Chan was a real pioneer in the field of kicking ass with crazy shit like refrigerator doors, paint cans, ladders, pinball machines, horseshoe and steering wheels.&nbsp; Basically, if he can find some way to either pick it up or otherwise manipulate it, he can probably find some way beat the shit out of you with it.</p>
<p>On top of that, Jackie does ALL of his own stunts, which is crazy.&nbsp; They have professional expendable stunt guys just so you don't have to climb out of a trash compactor as it's closing or risk injury and death by jumping from rooftop to rooftop without a safety net or leaping out of a moving car.&nbsp; Jackie's nuts though; he does all that shit himself.&nbsp; And while he's probably single-handedly destroying the stuntperson industry one film at a time, you totally have to respect the testicular fortitude it takes to get out there and volunteer to leap from a bridge onto a moving train and then plummet a hundred feet into a river.&nbsp; It's pretty badass.&nbsp; Couple that with the fact that he's STILL doing shit like that even though he's like 51 years old and it's even more impressive.&nbsp; Shit, I'm in my mid-twenties and I can't run up a wall and do a backflip without breaking my neck;&nbsp; this guy's twice my age and he can do it while CIA assassins lob hand grenades at him.&nbsp; He's just that hardcore.</p>
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