City Hunter (1993)

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Purely Joyful Movie!

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

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?

Wow... just wow. This movie had so much ridiculous comedy and action and managed to avoid being cheesy at all! First off...the main character was so awesome and so perfect for jackie that his character alone makes the movie great. This movie was so overwhelmingly hip and easy to get yourself into, that halfway through the movie i turned to my cat and yelled "KITTY HUNTER"! and scared the crap out of her.The characters were also all really cool and you couldn't help but like them. At first i thought the card throwing dude was cheesy, but soon after i realized how impressively slick and suave he was. The two female agents were both very attractive and very different. Despite few speaking parts their characters were well developed by their actions. The bad guy who worked out in a thong, fought like ken from street fighter, and looked like shawn michaels was really cool and i was disappointed that he didn't get more screen time then he did. The dude that was hitting on jackie's assistant was hilarious. Jackies assistant reminded me too much of his girlfriend from the police story series though, and the rich man's daughter didn't really get too developed or do too much.The action was excellent and the humor was laugh out-loud funny. I have to highly recommend this film for fans of jackie, action, comedy, and hot Asian chicks.

This movie is very silly than again it is a Wong Jing film a man who has made a living out of plunging new depths silliness. Jackie Chan Made this film back to back with Chi Kirk Wongs "Crime Story" the polar opposite of the slapstick fare of City Hunter.City Hunter is much more a Wong Jing film than a Jackie Chan film which has both it's good and bad points. Wong Jing set design and color combinations deserving high praise also his use of humor complements Jackie Chan's style very well. The inventiveness of Wong Jing makes your head spin sometimes but there are some true gems the Bruce lee inspired fight is an excellent way to again bring these two legends together.Fans of Jackie Chan will be surprised by some of the casual gun play and sexual innuendo which are usually big no-no's in Chan but common in Wong Jing films. Wong Jing's Slapsick humor carries the film but bring's down Chan's usual stunt's and brilliant fight choreography which is the biggest disappointment of the film. Richard Norton is brilliant as Don Mac and Garry Daniels and this is main problem Chan is teamed with two brilliant martial art fighters and most fights fall flat although the final battle is worth the wait.Special mention must be made of the audio commentary on the HKL DVD by expert Bey Logan adds a new layer to the film the man sure does know his stuff. City Hunter is definitely a odd film in the Chan catalog but is still highly enjoyable slapstick fun

Version: Cantonese, English subtitles (by SBS).In City Hunter, Jackie goes away from his usual up-standing good-guy characters, to a seedy private eye, more interested in women and food than anything else. He is asked to find the run-away daughter of a media mogul. He just happens to end up on a cruise-ship, which is of course, hijacked by terrorists (white guys, naturally) - now its up to Jackie, and the legion of good guys he meets, to save the day.'City Hunter' is Jackie Chan in a live-action cartoon. Jackie gets hit with giant mallets (in true Warner Bros style), tries to upstage Bruce Lee, begs bad guys for food, dresses up in drag, and even does the Moonwalk. The Moonwalk! Supported by an eclectic range of good guys, Jackie takes on the nefarious white evil guys. Awesome.Plot? What plot? This movie is all about awesomeness, and how awesome Jackie Chan is. 'City Hunter' is so awesome. Some pretty cool, and very funny fights with Gary Daniels and Richard Norton. Richard Norton is also awesome.8/10 - My favourite movie. If you don't have a sense of awesomeness, then you probably won't like it.