Jackie Chan may not know his name but he has not forgotten how to fight in the globe-hopping amnesia adventure WHO AM I?, on Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment.

Jackie Chan is Jackie Chan – as was generally the case after his recent films got stateside release (along with some rescored, recut, and redubbed ones in which his protagonists were rechristened "Jackie Chan") – a Chinese mercenary who has been recruited as part of a nine-man international top secret operation. Operating with no names and no knowledge of the bounty, they seize a team of South African scientists who have discovered a meteorite containing an element powerful enough to light entire cities or be concentrated as a destructive weapon only for their plane to be sabotaged to crash somewhere in the middle of the Namibian desert. Jackie is the only survivor, having been thrown clear of the crash but he has no memory of what happened or even his own name, the tribe that found him giving him the name "Whoami" after his constant desperate cry. Meanwhile, the CIA has learned that American military helicopters were used in the heist and put Morgan (Ron Smerczak, THE MANGLER) in charge of an investigation, not realizing that he and General Sherman (Ed Nelson, THE BONEYARD) are behind the crime. Jackie lives with the tribe for a few months but starts to get flashes of memory when the tribe comes across the crash site and the remains of the other soldiers. Recuperated, Jackie sets out for civilization, rescuing stranded Japanese racers Yuki (Mirai Yamamoto, EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS) and her wounded brother Aiji (Al Karaki, AMERICAN EAGLE). His inadvertently winning the race while rushing them back to get treatment gains him press notoriety and he is recognized by Sherman who orders Morgan to get rid of him. Morgan's hitmen are not the only people who are after Jackie, as the South African secret police believe he knows the whereabouts of the rest of his team, and reporter Christine Stark (CNN correspondent turned actress Michelle Ferre) will do anything for a scoop.

Shot in South Africa and Rotterdam, Holland , WHO AM I? is typically overblown "everything but the kitchen sink" Jackie Chan fare with ambitious, complex, and highly destructive stunt sequences set against picturesque foreign backdrops on the level that got the production company permanently banned from ever filming again in Australia after the previous year's MR. NICE GUY (coming soon on Blu-ray from Warner Archive). The meteorite provides some bad CGI pyrotechnics and there is a McGuffin involving an incriminating disc, but the various twists and turns of the story are the bare minimum structure upon which to hang a series of action sequences; and they are all so exciting that it is easy to forget the terrible dubbing (the international version had equal amounts of English and Chinese dialogue while the American version was fully dubbed in English with only Chan dubbing his own performance), the rough editing (more so than in the other American recuts here are the transitions amateurish including bits where the scene cuts just as a character opens their mouth to speak), and the cardboard performances. We get Jackie fighting a bunch of secret police while handcuffed, taking on hitmen with only a spear in a lush hotel room, a great car chase (in which Yamamoto gets to do the driving for a change rather than Chan), and more fight sequences once the film moves over to Rotterdam involving wooden shoes and a fight down an entire alley where heavy furniture is being precariously hoisted above to a row of upper floor apartments before the entire Dutch military is called out for the finale. The supporting cast includes Australian fight choreographer Bradley James Allan who collaborated with Chan on several works from MR. NICE GUY onwards, Dutch stuntman Marco Maas (who may or may not be related to Dutch action director Dick Maas but worked on ten of his films), and Shô Kosugi's martial artist son Kane (PRAY FOR DEATH).

First hitting the states in a dual-language VCD edition – the original Dolby Digital/DTS mix was a mix of Cantonese and English dialogue – the film had its first official domestic release from Columbia Tri-Star in a two-sided disc featuring anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1 and cropped 1.33:1 fullscreen transfers as well as a full English redub in Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Surround; however, it was the film's international version which ran twelve minutes shorter than the Hong Kong version. Umbrella has unfortunately not really improved on the twenty-year old DVD. The main presentation is a 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC widescreen version that has been cropped to 1.78:1 (only the credits are in 2.35:1). It is a pretty clean-looking presentation but not obviously repurposed from a master prepared for television in the earlier days of HD. The original sliding credits have been replaced with new ones in the same font while the other animated titles denoting place names and times also no longer have any motion. The only audio option is a serviceable English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo track. The only English subtitles are those for the African dialogue which are presented in a different bolder font than the Columbia DVD ones which were also part of the frame and not part of the disc's optional SDH track.