This fucking movie is wild.
An ex-girlfriend and I never got along. We had very little in common. One thing we both liked to do was get a bunch of junk food and rent Jackie Chan movies from Blockbuster. They had a whole wall of $1 rentals, movies and sequels to movies I have never even heard of. I'm not kidding, they had 30-40 Jackie movies easily, all for $1. Some of the same actors are in the same movies, even the stuntmen I recognized from one film to the next. City Hunter was top on the list of "What the fuck am I watching" Hong Kong Action Cinema.
This is the movie where this popular animated GIF and random video snips of Jackie as Street Fighter Characters comes from. At one point of the movie he gets tossed in to a Street Fighter Arcade machine and turns in to those characters, even going as far as doing their move sets. See for yourself.
City Hunter is Chinese comedy/action film based on the Manga of the same title. Jackie plays Ryo Saeba, a car owning playboy that seems to be surrounded by women and bad life choices. Right away we are thrown in to Ryo being tapped to find someone's runaway daughter, snubs a hot girl romantic interest that's after him, and they jump on a cruise ship. I'll be honest, at this point, I'm half paying attention to what's going on and just waiting for the action scenes or Street Fighter shit to happen.
25 Minutes in, you get to see this oiled up dude working out and doing some impossible Van Damm-esk stretches. Dragging in to the rest of the movie, it plays out much like an anime or manga. No shortage of action, tons of humor, guns and very attractive Asian women in various states of undress. Our hero almost gets the girl plenty of times, but its interrupted several times by aforementioned oiled up dude.
More and more action, this time by the ladies with tons of gunplay ensues. Good guys are dressed in all white and villain's are dressed in black or red I just noticed. Another thing I noticed, the villain's from this movie are the same as the ones from Mr. Nice Guy, and Who Am I? The guy holding his girlfriend hostage is from Rumble in the Bronx. Some of the gun scenes are a little over the top, but well filmed, bright and clearly taking from the manga.
All in all, even if you have not heard of the Manga or Anime OVA, give this a watch anyways. It's 100% classic Jackie Chan Campy goodness, he is in his prime and is in great shape, and there is a scene where he is super hungry and thinks a women's tits are cheeseburgers.
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