Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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?

"City Hunter" is one of the finest Jackie Chan's achievements (together with "Project 'A'", "Police Story", and "Dragon Lord"). This action/comedy flick has everything, which I want to get from Mr Jackie Chan: buffoonery, high-octane stunts, and tough evil characters. What is more, it has a charming "comics" style, a very pleasant soundtrack (the music becomes to the film perfectly), and wonderful Asian women who can fall nicely. Every single minute of this movie is a great chip, and a pile of such chips make up one solid fist of entertainment. Bizarre characters (a quick "cards" guy with "floating" hair, a pair of gamers, a pair of female secret agents, a gay terrorist, etc.) make it all weird like hell. The scene of "gaming" fight is so stupid, that I could not believe my eyes at first. And the final fight with Mr Richard Norton's evil incarnation is extremely well choreographed. Mr Bruce Lee also makes his unforgettable contribution. Well, I guess, I can say tons of good things about this movie.More good things are mentioned below.The use of colours all through the movie is remarkable: combinations of red and black in the women clothing, the white camouflage of Mr Jackie Chan on the white cruiser, the bluish tint during the card play, the screaming red used for cars and terrorists, etc.The main villain announces his name and it is … "Mac. You can call me McDonald". We all chuckled while watching because this funny name reminds of McDonald's fast food and of the notorious Donald Duck (remember that cartoon "Old McDonald had a farm…"?). How can you take this villain seriously when he is named like that? Besides, Mr Richard Norton does not look like a killer and all his face expressions are ridiculous. I also liked his zany performance in "Twinkle, Twinkle…". He is simply outstanding as an "awkward" criminal.The way the masked terrorists are moving around is funny. They turn in such a stupid way, as if they are cheap computer game characters.The way the gay terrorist shuts the door with his right leg is unbelievable. I don't even dare to try that – it seems to be freaking impossible.All through the movie the evil characters giggle in a very wicked way. It goes "he-he", "he-he", and "he-he". Somebody can get nervous, as to me – I like it.The older generation here can watch it seriously and take it all to heart. It amuses me even more. How can you treat this thing seriously? Somehow they can.The "big hammer" scenes are nice. I guess, it's a good possibility to imagine that you squash somebody who sets your teeth on edge with a huge hammer.Absurdity rules in this movie from start to finish. In that sphere I like it much more than "Monty Python" stuff in "Holy Grail".And one more "fatality" remark: I have never played "Street Fighter II" and I don't know a bit who and what those characters painted on the wall are, but I still find the "Street Fighter" combat scene absolutely insane and thought-provoking.Almost forgot: Mr Jackie Chan makes so many insane faces and moves in this one, that I ask myself: "What the hell? Am I dreaming?" It means: I am blown away.Unbelievable: 10 out of 10. The more I watch it, the more I like it. Thank you for attention.

I bought a 3 DVD box named "Manga in motion" which contained the movies "Story Of Ricky", "Dragon From Russia" and "City Hunter". I watched the two other movies and thought that they were OK, so I didn't expect very much from this movie, I thought it may as well be "OK". The movie starts with a very stupid scene and goes worse and much, much more worse all the time. The humor is very stupid (even for a hong kong movie), and so is the over-acting. I just had to fight to watch the first 30 minutes of the movie. Then, in the end comes the Street fighter scene. I can honestly say that I have never seen anything as stupid and retarded as that scene. That scene almost made me stop watching the movie, but I fought until the end. The movie is without a doubt Jackie Chan's worst movie, and don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Chan. But this kind of a movie is something that I think they shouldn't have done. 2/10 *** WORST JACKIE CHAN MOVIE EVER ***