Jet Li's Born to Defeat (1986)
Out of the 20 or so Jet Li movies I've seen this,
in my opinion,is his best. – WingChunman, Imdb.
Jet Li plays a Chinese soldier returning home
from the war. When he arrives home he meets up with his uncle and realizes
everything has changed. The Americans there control everything with power and
money. Jet eventually gets involved when the Captain of the sailors hits him with
his car and things start from there. Jet has many battles with the sailors at
the bar-boxing ring.
There is about 8 fight scenes in total, some are short and some are really
long. All of the one-on-one fight scenes involve Jet fighting an American sailor.
There is also a really good brawl room brawl after Jet fights the captain of
the sailors for one of many times in the boxing ring at the bar. The fight
scenes are boxing and Kickboxing scenes with Hong Kong style choreography. They
are really good and resemble some of Cory Yuen's later work. Jet Li does throw
in some traditional Kung Fu though, like his fighting stance he uses. The
ending fight is great where Jet takes out each sailor one-on-one untill only
the captain remains in the factory. The final fight is really fast paced and
keeps you wanting more. Jet Li shows us a future trademark by using a chain in
a Wu Shu type technique(such as the belt in Fist of Legend, the fire hose in
Romeo must die, the rope in My father is a Hero a.k.a the Enforcer,etc.)
FUN FACT: This is the only film Jet Li has directed to date.