The two sons of the great Tai Chi master stumble into a powder keg and when they save two girls from a primitive tribal sacrifice they meet Christy Chung. She is parading for democracy in China in the middle of the Opium wars, and seems quite taken with the teenage kung-fu master (Jacky Wu) who saves her life.

Jet Li and Chin Siu Ho are both students at the shaolin temple. But one day Chin falls foul of his master and he and Jet are banished from the temple - after they beat everyone up. They must now make a new life for themselves in the outside world. However, unlike Li, Chin is not happy with his meagre existence and leaves to join the red army.

Jackie Chan stars as a Japan-trained racing car driver who has since retired and helps the police in finding sports cars with illegal modifications done to them. Whilst out on a raid Chan annoys Kougar, a German racing car driver with underworld connections. Once Kougar has escaped from jail he tracks down Jackie and tortures him before kidnapping his sisters.

A streetwise young man (Nicholas Tse) becomes a bodyguard to score cash. He soon befriends a once disillusioned mercenary (Wu Bai) determined to begin life anew with the woman he just married. Although the two men find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt, their partnership is short-lived.

Sammo Hung is Fat Goose the owner of a small market stall. Despite his annoying mother he has a happy life, until one night when he witnesses the murder of a cop. From that moment on he is on the run and after his apartment is torched he decides to stay under police protection.

Jackie Chan plays twins separated at birth and unaware of each others' existence. One has grown up to become a Hong Kong garage attendant and streetfighter, while the other is a renowned concert pianist and conductor raised in the west. When the musical twin arrives in Hong Kong to give a concert, he and his brother inadvertently swap places.