Behind every fight scene that looks effortless sits weeks of rigging, rehearsal, and a team willing to take the fall so the shot works.
What is Jackie Chan: My Stunts about?
This 1999 documentary pulls back the curtain on the craft behind action filmmaking, built around the stunt team Jackie Chan assembled and trained over decades of work in Hong Kong cinema. Rather than compiling outtakes of stunts gone wrong, the film walks through the mechanics of how a fight or a fall is actually constructed: camera placement, timing between performers, the padding and rigging hidden just out of frame, and the split-second choreography that separates a convincing hit from an obviously fake one. Chan appears throughout as both subject and guide, breaking down sequences alongside longtime collaborators including Mars, Bradley James Allan, and members of the stunt team that helped define his on-screen style. The film gives particular attention to the physical toll the work takes, showing how performers protect themselves during dangerous set pieces while still delivering the visual impact audiences expect from a Jackie Chan production.
About the cast
Jackie Chan headlines both in front of and behind the camera, joined by longtime stunt collaborators Mars, Bradley James Allan, Michael Brown, Tsui Man, Rocky Lai Keung-Ken, Johnny Cheung Wa, and Go Shut-Fung.
Context & significance
The documentary sits alongside a run of behind-the-scenes projects Chan produced across his career, reflecting a filmmaker known for performing his own stunts and for crediting the team that made his most dangerous sequences survivable. It offers a rare look at Hong Kong action cinema's practical, in-camera approach to stunt work at a moment when the style was increasingly giving way to digital effects elsewhere in the industry.
Watching Jackie Chan: My Stunts on Ktime
The documentary streams on K-Time with a free account login, available through the Farsi-language interface K-Time maintains for Persian-speaking viewers across the diaspora.