Chan hams it up throughout -- to little avail -- but the final brawl should please fans of his balletic action sequences, that is, if they can endure the full hour of silliness before it.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Los Angeles Times by Gene Seymour
Mindless escape. [12 April 1999, Calendar, p.F-4]
L.A. Weekly by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
As usual, the final fight-scene extravaganza is outstanding, but its hardly worth the dreary hour and a half that precedes it.
Ticket buyers get two Jackie Chans for the price of one in Twin Dragons, but the pic itself is no great bargain.
Twin Dragons is still a Chan film, albeit not a great one. As fans have figured out by now, that goes a long way.
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
High-spirited entertainment .
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Only die-hard and undemanding Chan fans need apply.
It's all pretty dumb, but if you're in the mood for this sort of thing, you won't have a bad time. [9 April 1999, Friday, p.F]
Here's Jackie Chan playing twins separated at birth, though not as separated as English is from the actors' lip movements in this silly, speedy, wretched dubbed action goof. [16 April 1999, Life, p.8E]
Austin Chronicle by Russell Smith
Rare two-for-one Chan special.