Here's Jackie with his son, Jaycee.  Jackie Chan set off a hail of critcism recently by saying, "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled," during an economic conference on Hainan Island.  "If we are not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."    
Jackie Chan Strikes a Chinese Nerve   According to The New York Times, the comment was considered extremely insulting in Hong Kong and Taiwan, especially, but also on mainland China.  A spokesman for Jackie insisted the comments were taken out of context.

I wonder.   

He's an avowed patriot.  He sang at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and denounced the protesters who interrupted the torch relay.   No doubt he's brown-nosing the Chinese authorities.  Democracy is not on the government's near future agenda.  Economic growth and continued power are.  I also heard from my students in China that too much freedom is not a good thing, leading to disharmony and instability.  Same as stated in the NYT article. 

I also wonder at the outcry against his comments.  They really surprise me.  Of course the NYT article mostly quotes sources in Taiwan and Hong Kong.  Taiwan is a democracy and Hong Kong, though controlled by China, has more freedom than mainland China.  Here in the west, we often don't distinguish between these Chinese places, though they are separate entities and vastly different. 

Neither in my time in China, nor in later internet comments from young Chinese have I heard demands for democracy.  The young demand respect from the West for China; they demand the West stop using democracy as a standard for good government; they state that China will have its own system of government that will be distinctly Chinese. 

Yes, there are those on the mainland who long for democracy, but realistically, I expect only a few will risk instability for it.  And frankly, if life keeps improving, as it has for the Chinese over the last two plus decades, why make a change?