City Hunter (1993) User Reviews

A comedy with action

[ebiros2 · 6/10 · 1 December 2011]

Based on a comic by Tsukasa Houjo, City Hunter was made because a Japanese fan mentioned to Jackie Chan that he looks like Ryo Saeba.

Ryo Saeba (Jackie Chan) is asked to bring back Seiko (Kumoko Goto) back to Japan. On their way back, the luxury liner carrying both gets high jacked by gangs. Ryo, Seiko and others battle the gang inside the luxury liner.

The movie is made to appeal to both Hong Kong and Japanese audience, and actor Joey Wong who was popular at the time in Japan appears as Ryo Saeba's girlfriend. Kumiko Goto who was popular in Japan at the time also appears. All star cast of Richard Norton, Leon Lai, and Chingmy Yau also appears to appeal to audiences in both countries. There's a comical scene where characters that looks like the Street Fighter appearing in fight scenes.

This movie is bit different from other Jackie Chan movies, in that body exploitation with many men and women in their swim suit appearing, and overt comedy is part of the story. But the fight scene between Richard Norton and Jackie Chan is pure Jackie Chan movie.

Many people say this is the only Jackie Chan movie that doesn't work, but it is an entertaining movie with some good action spread in between.

Two thumbs up, and hunting you down in the city, like a City Hunter

[thomas-hardcastle-2 · 7/10 · 15 June 2008]

I like this film. I was already familiar with the City Hunter animé, which to be honest is even more risqué than this Wong Jing offering.

Jackie Chan is hilarious, but in a slightly different way to his usual comedy persona. You have to remember when you watch this film, that you're watching a live action cartoon. This will allow you to take this film with a pinch of salt, and in so-doing you will not take it too seriously.

There is plenty of action in this film, kung-fu included, mostly because Jackie Chan plays Ryu Saeba. The fighting is terrific, and once again hilarious, as you see big, mean baddies reduced to comical fighting roles, rather than the more serious bleeding, and sweating, then dying roles.

Chingmy Yau is in this film, looking gorgeous, as usual. She is given more license than most women in Wong Jing films to be independent, and not to be a hot idiot, but essentially, she remains a hot idiot.

I particularly enjoyed the nod to Bruce Lee in this film, when Chan is forced to fight two massive bad guys in a cinema.

Overall, this is a fun film. Chan fans will enjoy it. City Hunter fans will enjoy it. Wong Jing fans will enjoy it. Non-fans of the aforementioned may not enjoy it, and women's lib chicks will find it insulting and degrading to women, but to be honest, they need to get a life and get into the goddamn kitchen to make me something to eat!

Of my favourite Jackie Chan movies...this one would NOT be up there as one of the

[Elmyras · 7/10 · 3 August 2003]

*minor spoilers*





The jokes are mostly juvenile and are accompanied with too much 'funny' face pulling. I particularly detest the running gag with the woman who can't hold up a gun for long because her 'load' is too heavy. Now, I'm no feminist so maybe it's not the joke so much as how badly delivered it is and how predictable it gets each time it happens. That said, this movie does contain some genuinely funny scenes, for instance when Joey Wong pretends to seduce the bad guy by playing with the bottom of his T-shirt and then proceeds to whip it up and trap his head in it. This is then spoiled with an excess of violence directed toward her by the villain and she reacts by falling into stupid positions and pulling funny faces. Joey Wong is a good actress with a lot of charisma but she does tend to Ham it up here. There's not much to say about the other three female leads except that they're just, well, there. Frankly, the movie could've done without the two undercovers and Leon Lai, whose presence irks me.

There are however two stand out moments the first of which isn't exactly funny but more a homage to Bruce Lee. This happens in the a theatre where Jackie finds himself up against two 7 ft+ tall bad guys and he finds inspiration from the master himself (whose movie is playing in the background) to give them a good pounding. The second is of course the Street Fighter scene. This game was huge at the time and it was such a treat to see this part of the film for the first time.

The last fight is also fun to watch although there is the presence of that face pulling again. I'll forgive him this time since the action is so good and at times laugh out loud funny you realise that this is the Jackie Chan of old where his stunts still wow you. Speaking of stunts, there is one where he somersaults from one balcony and lands on his feet about 10ft below.

Humour: 6/10 - some genuinely funny moments dragged down by an abundance of dreadful humour.

Action: 9/10 - Jackie Chan at his near best.

Plot: Hey, this is a Jackie Chan movie we're talking about.

Overall, I'd give it a 7/10.

Jackie Chan As A Comic-Strip Private Eye

[gerrytwo · 25 May 1999]

Jackie Chan plays a womanizing private eye known as City Hunter in this Wong Jing directed movie. The movie is played for surreal laughs part of the time. But with Wong Jing at the helm of this comic strip of a movie, that is no surprise. When you watch this movie, you realize that Jackie Chan knows how to pick stories and direct himself better than anyone else.

I saw this movie on the Media Arts DVD released in April, 1999. The Japanese manufactured DVD has subtitles in 8 languages, including English and Spanish. The aspect ratio is 2.35 and the image quality is very fine.

A bit too madcap, but it has lots of great moments

[Leofwine_draca · 6/10 · 17 February 2016]

A very atypical kind of movie for Jackie, this ups the dumb Chinese humour level tenfold and the result is an amazingly stupid and inane movie with many annoying moments… and yet, it is saved thanks to some expert choreography and half a dozen genuinely funny action sequences which raise the bar for similar fare. Chan's character is based on an anime hero, but the simple plot seems to be a comic reprise of UNDER SIEGE, with plenty of cheeky nods to other Hollywood fare like DIE HARD (for instance, when the hostage is negotiating and starts laughing). The humour comes thick and fast but is very lowbrow and of the slapstick variety, with the typical clichéd Hong Kong supports: the cowardly guy with the thick hair; the screaming, clumsy damsels-in-distress; the extremely annoying sidekick who fancies Chan and, of course, the big, bulky foreign bad guys.

My advice is to ignore the plot and inane scripting and concentrate on the great scenes intermingled with the bull. The opening skateboard chase is a little too cheesy for my liking, but once Chan gets onto the ship the action starts to roll – especially when he fights villainous henchmen and ship guards alike. There are plenty of great moments to choose from, but his first battle with British villain Gary Daniels is a must-see and the second, literally eye-popping. This involves the pair battling in a video arcade and turning into various characters from 'Streetfighter 2'; this is a perfect combination of cheese, costumes and amazing special effects and camera tricks that really makes you feel like you're watching the game. It's insanely funny, as is the bit where he fights two huge henchmen using Bruce Lee's GAME OF DEATH for inspiration.

There are other good bits in the film – the gambler character with his deadly cards is great, as is Jackie's escape from the exploding corridor – but the final martial arts battle between Chan and Richard Norton is really phenomenal. It goes on for ages and never lets up, using props to their full extent, and one of the most painful fights I've watched! Chan goes over the top as the script requires and is pretty annoying in some places, but redeems himself with some of the most acrobatic moves I've seen him display. The female support is large, but only the backside-kicking policewoman, played by Chingamy Yau being much cop (no pun intended) – not forgetting her accomplice, whose breasts are always getting her into trouble!

Bad guys include a brief appearance from Jackie's bodyguard Ken Lo and the aforementioned Gary Daniels. This is really Daniels' breakthrough role and what better way to introduce the formidable actor than in an intense training sequence with an incredible splits manoeuvre! Norton is a treat as the charismatic villain, and his performance here makes me determined to track down more of his movies. A very weird film, easy to dislike and hard to get into for the first half, which evens out to offer some classic action moments.

Outstanding stunts & action, mostly very fun - but cartoonish to the point of being overbearing

[I_Ailurophile · 7/10 · 6 January 2024]

I don't know what else I should have expected, but for a live-action manga adaptation of the early 90s, and one starring Jackie Chan no less, this embraces abject cartoonishness far exceeding my wildest assumptions. Kids' movies of the same period have nothing on 'City hunter'; Chan is no stranger to action-comedies, yet this is a title that puts the comedy first, and in which no small amount of the stunts, effects, choreography, editing, and otherwise action is specifically geared toward building that comedy. This is to say nothing of the wild choices of costume design, acting and direction, the playful original music, cinematography, or the art direction. Every last trace of the film is as over the top as it could be, including characters, dialogue, and scene writing; only if the manga were realized as anime could the result have been more frivolous. Anyone who can't abide the most outrageous and ham-handed of fare is advised to just look away from the outset, because this operates on a level that makes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look like ponderous drama.

To be perfectly honest that often juvenile flippancy does become overbearing, and not least right about the time that the story aboard a cruise ship takes a break for a big musical and dance sequence - which, for the record, comes after only about one-third of the runtime has elapsed. That's far from the end of it though; a sequence in the last act recalls the worst buffoonery of 'Freddy's dead: The final nightmare' a couple years before, and frankly takes it even further. Would that the sheer overcooked boisterousness were the only issue, for there is also some ugly homophobia on hand, and the script and camera commonly treat women with a lasciviousness that's plainly off-putting rather than titillating. More generally, there are some points in the narrative that are just downright thin, and I can't imagine some beats or ideas ever coming off well even on paper. This is built solely to entertain, but some aspects here are emphatically not fun at all, and sometimes filmmaker Wong Jing simply went too far with some of the choices that were made; there are upper limits on the lasting entertainment value to be had here.

Yet even as 'City hunter' takes every idea to major extremes, and some inclusions are dubious or altogether tawdry, more than not it remains solidly enjoyable. Not every decision made here is a good one, but in and of themselves I can't say that anyone contributing here didn't turn in great work. The filming locations are swell, and the sets really are outstanding. The costume design, hair, and makeup are lovely. The direction, cinematography, and editing are all marvelously sharp, and the cast unreservedly commit to all the silliness. Above all, all the stunts, effects, choreography, and action really are superb, and wouldn't look out of place in a more serious-minded feature. Even that sequence of song and dance is a minor joy, however absurd it is on the face of things. The outright nonsense becomes a step too far, yet if all you want out of Golden Harvest is tremendous action and stunt work, then this picture delivers in spades.

In some measure it's definitely a mixed bag; with more restraint and a tad more mindful care the flick would surely enjoy a more significant legacy. It may have only wanted to have a good time, yet sometimes Too Much really is just Too Much. At the same time, 'City hunter' has no illusions of being anything other than a preposterous, irreverent joy ride, and even if some odds and ends share more in common with 'Looney tunes' than 'Die hard,' by and large this is a blast. Unless you're a huge fan of Chan or someone else involved, Golden Harvest, or the manga, there's surely no need to go out of your way for this. It bears repeating though, that the stunts and action are pretty much just brilliant, and by that measure alone 'City hunter' is worth checking out if you have the opportunity.

City Hunter!!!!

[Macduff316 · 7/10 · 27 May 2006]

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.

Wow, what a stinker

[Snootz · 3/10 · 7 August 2019]

Has to be one of Jackie Chan's worst movies. Intended as a campy satire-- the only time I laughed during the whole movie was during the blooper scenes at the end.

Honestly, Chan has made some funny films and we've enjoyed some amazing acrobatics, but the choreography in this was horrible, the schtick not funny. This had all the feeling of martial arts by Jerry Lewis.

I figure there will be a wide range of mixed reviews on this. But halfway through I seriously considered hitting the off switch; the only reason I kept watching was because it was Jackie Chan. But even he couldn't save this unfunny schlock. Some people might find this hilarious. I found it to be bad directing, horrible English voice-overs (the actor they chose to play Chan could not have been a worse voice decision), and the choreography some of the worst I've seen in any martial arts film, schlock or not.

Only positive thing I can say for it is that they had many lovely actresses playing various parts. Beyond that, wow, what a stinker.

Totally ridiculous, totally entertaining!

[rutt13-1 · 8/10 · 20 June 2001]

I think this was the first "true" Jackie Chan movie I've seen...I was blown away by the stunts and fighting, but wow, this is ridiculous! I love it!!!! It's very bizarre, and really colorful. More or less, it's "Under Siege," but with Wong Jing's typical "anything goes" goofiness! A lot of people I know hate this, but I absolute adore this live-action cartoon...I guess you just have to be of a certain type to enjoy it...and oh yeh, it has the finest selection of great-looking women I've ever seen in one film!

Disappointing

[leekandham · 6/10 · 27 March 2002]

Before I start I have to say that I'm not familiar with the popular 'City

Hunter' manga series, so I can't say how true to them this film is. It

may well be, but this film is sadly disappointing for many reasons.

The film takes Jackie's slapstick comedy to an extreme, and whilst

there are some very nice scenes, such as the parody of a fight

from a popular video game, and the helping hand from a certain

Bruce Lee, most of it was just too clumsy and silly!

In the end the flow of the film wasn't there and there were too many

characters popping in and out of the plot. There are some

extravagant action scenes, but it really didn't make up for a lacking

storyline.

For DVD viewers, I have a word of warning. The UK DVD version of

the film has been released by Hong Kong Legends, and claims

that the movie has been digitally remastered. However, the film

contains some scenes (about four or five of them lasting a few

seconds), that for some reason, cannot be remastered, I guess

possibly because the image quality of the original was not good

enough and would have produced a worse picture. Anyway, this is

clearly visible during the movie, but in the end, I guess you won't

find a version with a better image quality elsewhere.

Avoid!

[geezerbu · 1/10 · 23 December 2002]

I really hate this movie but I like Jackie Chan movies in general, so what can I say? It tries to be some funny silly comedy but I didn't laugh one time, the jokes are so dumb, maybe if you are like 5 years and under you will find it funny, anyway I didn't watch the whole thing, after about 20 minutes I wanted to rip my head off it so terrible...YUCK...

1/10

totally bonkers and all the best for it

[Quinoa1984 · 8/10 · 26 June 2013]

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?

funny

[q-55738 · 7/10 · 30 May 2020]

It 's full of funnyness, and from time to time there are a few unreasonable lines, which enriches and originalizes the original funny style. The whole movie is full of unreasonable funny elements, and exaggerated performance actions, shooting skills in place, very The background music suitable for the scene has dedicated countless classic bridges and scenes to the fans.

UNWATCHABLE

[jwpappas · 1/10 · 21 July 2003]

I love almost anything that comes out of HK, but even I have my limits. If Troma ever made a cheapo Saturday morning TV series for children, this would be it. You know you're in trouble when you're watching a Jackie Chan movie & 20 minutes in there still isn't a fight. This ultra lame attempt to bring a manga to the screen fails in almost every respect & the only fun to be had with it is if you get the newly released US version & watch it with the horribly dubbed English soundtrack, where no attempt whatsoever was made to sync up the hilariously dopey English voices with the mouths of the Chinese actors. Back in the late 1970s/early 1980s the martial arts genre nearly died due to a glut of cheap & substandard films. I'm afraid of more cheap & awful substandard dreck like CITY HUNTER flooding the market & making it impossible for good HK cinema to get released here. With great martial arts/HK flicks like HERO & KUNG FU MASTER (the epic starring Donnie Yen) still without wide US distribution I am afraid this may already be happening. I know if a piece of sh*t like CITY HUNTER was the first HK flick I ever saw I would never bother to see another one.

Not Jackie's best but his most sheerly FUN movie!

[DrLenera · 29 September 2003]

Loosely based on a Manga,City Hunter is by no means Jackie's best on an artistic level. However,it might very well be his most sheerly entertaining.

Although the plot is similar to Under Siege,the similarities end there. City Hunter is played almost entirely for laughs and manages to be consistently funny throughout while having more inventive ideas in 20 minutes than all three Austin Powers movies put together. Director Wong Jing {the same Wong Jing who made Naked Killer and God Of Gamblers!}absolutely crams the film with sight gags and slapstick,all filmed in a bright cartoon-like manner. One sequence involving Jackie being chased around a ship while hunting for food is an absolute masterpiece of silent-movie style comedy. Many of the best gags are very quick,such as Jackie crawling out of a bag hardly bigger than his head. Some are extremely sexist though,such as the woman holding a gun and falling forward because of the combined weight of the gun and her large breasts {this happens more than once}.

Despite all this City Hunter still manages to be crammed with action scenes,except of course in this film rather than simply staging a fight in a cinema we have Jackie taking guidance from an on-screen Bruce Lee! A Streetfighter sequence where the characters morph in to various game combatants has to be seen to be believed and the end showdown between Jackie and Richard Norton,although not one of his best in terms of martial arts technique,is easily his funniest.

Add some great characters,a terrific score,and for the male viewers,some gorgeous Hong Kong 'babes',and you have 90 minutes of sheer,non-stop FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jackie Chan and Wong Jing a meeting of the minds

[william81-1 · 6/10 · 12 January 2006]

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

Wacky Jackie

[CuriosityKilledShawn · 6/10 · 19 April 2020]

On a Friday night in June 1995 I suddenly found myself without adult supervision and it suddenly became "movie night", which was more of a thing when I was a kid. I went to the video store with a friend and settled on City Hunter as I had recently discovered Jackie Chan and I was a huge fan of Operation Condor. This movie is way more off-the-wall and eccentric, and is geared a little more towards younger kids, being based off a popular Japanese Manga and anime series.

Jackie plays Ryu Saeba a womanizing private eye raising the beautiful Kaori, his late partner's sister under the promise of never seducing her once she grows up. Tired of not getting the attention she wants, Kaori runs away and boards a cruise ship, where Ryu has stowed away in pursuit, and just so happens to find Shizuko (the unbelievably cute Kumiko Goto) the runaway daughter of the millionaire he's been hired to find in the process. So far, so convoluted.

While running around the ship, evading the crew, and becoming increasingly hungry, Ryo is absent when a group of terrorists led by Donald MacDonald (prolific stuntman Richard Norton) and his right-hand man Kim (Gary Daniels) take over and strip the passengers of their wealth while playing deadly card games in the casino. Ryo rounds up a disparate gang of misfits and leads the fight back, leading to many humorous fight scenes and creative choreography, including a bizarre fight in an arcade where Jackie and Gary Daniels become characters from Street Fighter 2.

The humor is often quite surreal, and if you can't get into the right frame of mind you likely will not enjoy it much. I recommend watching it subtitled in original Cantonese as much of the nuances and finer details are lost in the original home video English dub (I watched it twice in one night in both dubs). However, there are some jokes here that ABSOLUTELY. WOULD. NOT. BE. ALLOWED. in current year. I'm amazed they even got away with it in 1992, and in a kid's film. How times have changed.

The exteriors of the cruise ship were all shot on a cruise liner parked outside of Tokyo but the interiors were shot on a soundstage instead of the real thing and I have to admit the bland production design and early 90s aesthetic do not compliment each other. Fans of Rush Hour and Jackie's more family orientated movies will still have a bit of a tough time warming to City Hunter, the slapstick absurdity just isn't for everyone, but if you can see past all that it's still a fun, un-PC, live action cartoon. Like Hudson Hawk, you either go along with it, or you just won't understand it at all.

Hit and Miss

[alex_with_a_P · 6/10 · 21 January 2022]

This movie is swinging for the fences when it hits it really hits, but when it misses, boy it can get truly cringeworthy. And think twice before watching this with your girl. This movie can get rough with the dated sexist jokes which is primarly owed to the manga it's based off.

The wacky japanese tone of humor doesn't quite fit Jackie Chan, the first twenty minutes are kinda tedious since it only relies on sub-par comedy and a mildly entertaining skateboard sequence. But over time the movie slowly turns into a Jackie Chan movie. It gets into gear once we get to the ship. Maybe it was unintentional but fact is Jacke works best when he's charming. Once the Die-Hard plot gets going the wacky hi-jinks slows down at least a little bit. There are many characters here in the mix, the most annyoing being a pair of DJ's who even sneaked a terrible music video into this. Thankfully their screentime is a bare minimum.

The villains have the worst lines ("We just wanna get rich") but they are the best part in this. And more often their non-sensical dialogue are what makes this fun. Like when they are about to hijack the whole ship and in the elevator the main villain asks how his bowtie looks and another henchman replies with a simple "nice". And yes it's that movie with the Street FIghter action sequence that most people know from memes nowadays.

Why I take one star off is that surprisingly some of the action scenes are pretty mediocre for a Jackie Chan film. The skateboard sequence in the beginning lacks a climax. The fight scene in the cinema is waaay too long with too much dead air for silly jokes. The editing is also not very tight on this sequence, it lacks energy which is usually the strongpoint of HK productions. The last fight scene makes it up though. It's real good choreography that you expect from a Jackie Chan movie, with lots of creativity, comedy and pain.

This is a very unusual entry in Jackie Chan's filmography and is enjoyable to Jackie fans, I would never recommend this one to people who are unfamiliar of Jackie Chan (yes, they sadly exist).

Cheesy, Silly and Dull

[claudio_carvalho · 3/10 · 20 August 2005]

The private investigator City Hunter (Jackie Chan), who can not resist to the charm of beautiful women, is hired to find Shizuko, the runaway daughter of a powerful owner of a newspaper. His gorgeous and jealous assistant Kaori decides to leave City Hunter and travel in a cruise, coincidently in the same passenger vessel as Shizuko has embarked with City Hunter on her tail. The vessel is attacked by terrorists, and City Hunter protects Shizuko and Kaori.

"City Hunter" is one of the silliest and dullest movies I have ever seen. I do not know the target public of this cheesy production, since it seems to be too much violent for children, and too much stupid for grown-ups, but it is amazing the number of favorable reviews and the User Rating in IMDb. The comedy is not funny, and the imbecile action scenes are very boring and uninteresting. I like Jackie Chan, but I was completely disappointed with this crap. Further, I saw a VHS horribly dubbed in English with subtitles in Portuguese released by the Brazilian distributor "Abril Vídeo", and I noted that the name of the characters are completely different from those indicated in IMDb. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "City Hunter – O Caçador de Encrencas" ("City Hunter – The Trouble Hunter")

Chan the Man

[gurghi-2 · 8/10 · 18 January 1999]

This movie is, so far, not available in the U.S., except on imported laserdisc (which isn't subtitled, unfortunately). A few years ago I had the great pleasure to see, as part of a week-long run of Jackie's films at a local revival house, a subtitled print.

Some movies feel like they're funneled straight into your bloodstream, and this was one of them- everything about it was/is electric. Not your typical Jackie; there are some great stunts and, of course, some terrific fighting, but the movie is distinguished by a formidable cast and outrageous gimmickry.

(A year later I rented the laserdisc, watched it sans dialogue- still quite enjoyable.)

Of note: a fight on the cruise-ship theatre, one which mimics the Lee/Kareem scene in "Game of Death" that's playing on the theatre's screen... Jackie becoming the 'Street Fighter' characters in rapid succession (don't ask, it must be seen to be believed)... the Gambit-like card dealer... a couple of twins who could best be described as the Asian answer to Kid N'Play.

Refreshing also are the villains, stereotypically white one-and- all. Nice change of pace after so many movies with Asian baddies.

Street fighter scene was awesome

[jessethomas-171-912647 · 7/10 · 10 August 2019]

At 1:17 they go into this super interesting street fighter the video game sequence which was unexpected but very nostalgic in retrospect.

Gives bad a new meaning

[metta-4 · 1/10 · 24 July 2003]

Boy, I never knew how bad a movie can be, but after watching about 20 minutes of this piece of s&%#t I do. To me there is nothing funny about this movie, even if I try to give my brains a so-called day of. It is not that I am interested in more pretentious movies. I mean, I do like "Under siege", "Die hard" and also some of Jacky Chan's works, but these flicks at least do have descent settings and some funny dialogue.

City hunter will entertain let's say 3 to 8 year olds who are not so bright and it makes one wonder how this scrap made it on DVD while a genuine masterpiece like "The fearless vampire killers" is still waiting for a DVD release.

Fantastic

[Martialartsfanatic · 10/10 · 20 April 2001]

This movie was great. I ordered this movie and wasn't sure if I was going to like it, but I did. I also thought there wasn't going to be enough martial arts scenes, but I was wrong. There is lots! Even the humor made me laugh, and Hong Kong movies don't usually make me laugh. The fight scene between Gary Daniels and Jackie Chan is incredibly funny. They transform into characters from Street Fighter 2! I was also very impressed with the ending fight between Jackie Chan and Richard Norton. It is a good length, and well choreographed. I also liked this movie because it had all sorts of types of action: Explosions, fights, good gun play, etc. I have scene over 30 Jackie Chan movies, and this is probably my favorite. I suggest you buy City Hunter!

City Hunter

[coltras35 · 6/10 · 21 November 2022]

Womanising crime-fighter Ryô Seaba (Chan) is assigned to track down a Japanese heiress and his investigations lead him to a sea-bound ocean liner. However, once on-board, our intrepid hero finds he has more to contend with than a simple kidnapping case - the liner is about to be hijacked by terrorists and he is the only man who can foil their dastardly plot.

Loosely based on the City Hunter anime, this Jackie Chan starrer presents a live action movie with a 90's cartoon feeling. It's full of slapstick humour, saucy jokes, and wacky ideas- there's not much hair-raising stunts but it's watchable, though sometimes it's wackiness can be tiring. Liked the setting on the ship. Gary Daniels and Richard Norton make good adversary to Jackie. The fight scene in the cinema which has Bruce Lee on screen from the film Game of Death; Jackie gets ideas of defeating his foe by checking out Bruce's move. It marks a homage to Bruce Lee. Plenty of hot babes!!

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[dunny · 1/10 · 11 April 2002]

this movie is absolutely terrible, you must avoid it at all costs! Pathetic Humour which even a 5 year wouldnt find amusing, terrible fight scenes apart from the final which wasnt too bad...but just check out the dodgy street fighter scene, or listen to the Singing part in it!! Anyone who finds this film funny has a BAD sense of humour!!