YMMV / Rumble in the Bronx

• Awesome Music: Ash's "Kung Fu", the perfect song to introduce one of the world's great action stars to North America.
• Catharsis Factor: After having spent nearly the entire film being harassed, battered, bloodied and nearly killed, Keung finally beating the crap out of the gang at their own hideout is immensely satisfying.
• Cliché Storm: Distant family member comes to town, invokes the local criminal gang's wrath, and ends up taking the fight to them to protect what he cares about with a bigger criminal gang afoot. The difference here was that it was Jackie Chan and his true breakout into Hollywood, producing a comedy-action film that ascended the premise into a whole new style all its own.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Elaine's shop is ransacked and vandalized multiple times throughout the movie, with each incident worse than the last, and it's played for drama each time. Until the last one, where a tow truck is used to pull apart the building, completely destroying the shop, and tearing down half her apartment building while she's still inside. On the toilet. Then it's played completely for laughs.
• Fan Nickname: "Rumble in Vancouver", since that's where it was shot.
• Funny Moments:
  • During the chaotic hovercraft sequence towards the end of the film, as people are trying to get the hell out of dodge amidst it running on land, one man that was wheelchair bound sees it incoming and proceeds to dart from his chair.
  • The entire ending of Keung, Nancy and Elaine proceeding to get a repaired hovercraft solely to run over White Tiger and strip the clothes off his back.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A weird case in that the movie is effectively one giant Excuse Plot to justify Jackie Chan as Keung escaping danger and beating dudes up. As a result, very few people are probably going to talk about the rest of the movie besides the comedic parts.
• Moral Event Horizon: You could just think the syndicate goons are normal bad guys, and they killed other dealers in the process of trying to make off with their profits. Then they grab two of the Bronx gang members, beat and torture them for information, and then grab one and shove him face-first into a woodchipper, solely so they could Make an Example of Them for the surviving fellow to bring back to the rest of the gang as intimidation.
• Narm: Cheese and a half, from the cartridge-less Game Gear, to the blatant Hong Kong Dub that makes the characters sound completely distanced from the events surrounding them, never mind some of the voices used being hilariously unfitting. But that cheese is just part of the fun for most.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The bloodied Jackie stumbling into the apartment building the morning after his near-fatal alley attack is horrifying.
  • One of the biker gang members being shoved into a wood chipper, and the rest of the gang being shown their bits brought back in garbage bags.
  • White Tiger's syndicate goons have a couple funny moments, but are played almost entirely straight as sociopathic murderers that will kill everyone in their path to Leave No Witnesses, and brutally beat every person they hold captive repeatedly to prove how easily they can kill them all.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Elaine is played by Anita Mui, who is a very skilled martial artist in her own right, but her character is The Chew Toy and never gets involved in any action.

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