City Hunter (1993)

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Review: What an awful movie. Right from the beginning, I didn't have a clue about what was going on and the so-called comedy element, was EXTREMELY bad. I can't believe that somebody actually sat down and wrote this crap! There's no real action throughout the whole movie and I must admit, I didn't pay any attention after a while so I don't really know what the film was truly about. The little bit that I understood was that Jackie Chan was playing Ryu Saeba, who is hired by a publishing tycoon, to find his daughter. He sights her on a skateboarding ground but she escapes from him and Ryu finally catches up with her on a cruise ship, which just happens to be hijacked by thugs who are holding the rich passengers hostage. After some silly action scenes, including a Streetfighter sketch which was completely ridiculous, Ryu manages to take down the thugs with the help of his jealous side kick. All the way through the movie, Ryu is really hungry and surrounded by women who find him attractive. His jealous sidekick tries to fight of the women because she has the hots for Ryu but he made a promise to her father, who was his brutally murdered partner, never to have a relationship with her. Sounds interesting but it really wasn't! Chan completely made a fool of himself throughout the movie and I can't believe that they watched this rubbish before they released it. If I could give a movie a minus score, I would because this has to be the worst movie that I have seen from Chan. Awful!Round-Up: This rubbish was directed by Jing Wong who has brought you over 100 movies across the pond but I haven't heard of any of them. The only movies that I have seen from this director are the Evil Cult, Last Hero In China, the New Legend of Shaolin and Meltdown, which all starred Jet Li but his other movies are, somewhat, unheard of. This movie is based on the comic book, City Hunter, which I know nothing about so I can't make an comparison. As a movie, it's a complete waste of time and money and I won't be watching it again anytime soon.I don't recommend this movie to people who are into their action/martial arts/romance/comedies starring Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Gary Daniels, Joey Wang and Kumiko Goto. 1/10

This is silly. This is ludicrous. This is like 80's-style Troma comedy here. Very stupid, a lot of juvenile sex jokes and oggling at breasts (which, at one point, turn into hamburgers for the starving Jackie Chan character, Ryu Saeba, the 'City Hunter'), and it finally reveals its plot about or more than halfway into the movie as a (intentionally?) lame die-hard ripoff only this time on a cruise ship and a casino where wacky musical numbers and James Bond-esque card games ensue.Yes, it's all of these things. Plus it's a Jackie Chan movie, a classic- style Chan flick. Which means all put together, it's a tall glass of guilty pleasure shake with a side of HOLY CRAP JACKIE CHAN CAN DO THAT?! The movie knows exactly what it is from the start as Ryo explains how he is taking care of a little girl that was left to him by a dying friend (already its silly as the dying man speaks normal one second, dying next), and then the girl grows up. Yeah, she's a character, but that's not the sorta story here. Loose as possible, and a lot of twists happen so that it gets to that cruise ship: Ryo is hired by a guy to bring his daughter back home. She sneaks on the ship, Ryo follows, and wackiness ensues with a bunch of terrorists (many of them in red jumpsuits not unlike the Foot from Ninja Turtles), and the main bad guy is not even a take on the Die Hard villain but rather the Die Hard II villain, complete with solo work-out in a bedroom. Holy biceps and pectoral muscles Batman!This whole thing with City Hunter, down to its name which does get a theme song and ala Black Dynamite, is a live action cartoon. But if you're in the mood for it, if you just wanna wind down with something that does not take itself seriously for a nano-second, this is where you can go. Oh, and while the Jackie Chan action isn't there completely from start to finish, when it finally gets into it in say the last twenty, twenty-five minutes, it's approximately what you'd hope for: daring, high-flying, magical really. What could this guy NOT do for his art?

A comedy based on a Japanese manga of the same name. It has Jackie acting as a PI who tends to day dream a lot (about girls in bikinis...) He and his PA go aboard a cruise ship to rescue a millionaire's daughter. The fight scenes are pretty good (Jackie in his younger days is extremely agile) and makes good use of the surrounding props.I would say the most exciting fight scene and the most humorous would be when 2 actors (cannot remember their names) crashed into a Street Fighter II machine and get transformed into Dhalsim and Guile respectively. The evil pony tail villain is transformed into Ken. Then Jackie comes along, first becomes E. Honda then Chun Li. It's something else seeing Jackie dress in a chong sum, jumping up and down.Another scene that is pretty campy is Leon Lai who portrays a card shark. Every time he does a scene involving saving a girl, it's got into slow motion and he tend to blow his fringe.Of course, lots of gratuitous gunfire, shooting and beating up people. But somehow, no blood or very minimal blood is lost.All in all, I think this is one of the greater comedy movies made by Jackie Chan when he is willing to act goofy and elicit a few laughs. I would definitely recommended it for easy viewing or just a relaxing night.The one aspect that might be a bit irritating to people would be that if the viewer cannot understand Cantonese/mandarin, the impact would be lessen as the meaning of certain innuendos would be lost in translation to English subtitles.

Fun fun and more fun. Thats the way all films should be. I could watch this movie 100 times in a row, without a break. This film is so good, I bet it could cure many an illness. Jackie Chan is the best actor in the world. Forget Tom Cruise or any of those other phonies. They couldn't make a movie like City Hunter. I might actually learn Mandarin someday, so I can randomly quote lines from the movie during a job interview. Yeah, its that good. The words sound so cool, you want repeat them many times without even learning the meaning. Anyway, if you readers ever get a chance to see this movie, check it out. The laughs don't stop, plus the song Jackie Chan sings at the beginning and end of the movie is pretty cool.