And then everyone becomes Street Fighter characters. This isn’t too unusual: the majority of Chan’s best movies combine goofy humour and dangerous stunts, but City Hunter operates in cartoon world, where Ryo can lead a skateboard chase through thick glass windows, and a man throws cards like shuriken. The majority of the fight scenes are what you’d expect from a Jackie Chan feature, with some excellent choreography. The whole movie is fun, there’s no doubt about it, but it’s so disjointed it’s tough to really get into. Some of them are cool – the card-playing guy (played by Leon Lai!) is the best thing in the movie by a long shot, but he’s still kind of a pointless character.
Ryo’s dead partner, that police officer and her friend, the weirdly horny cousin. City Hunter is loaded with characters who don’t need to be in there. I guess where it suffers is that it’s an adaptation of a manga – that I’ll admit I’ve never read – and thus feels the need to follow certain beats, and introduce characters. On surface level, City Hunter looks like a standard Jackie Chan product of its time: misunderstandings with women, plenty of slapstick, a giant white guy who can’t act as the main antagonist.
I guess she’s part of the manga’s main cast? It’s sort of all over the place. Also there’s a fan-service police officer (Chingmy Yau) there, too. Ryo sneaks on board (I can’t remember why), and slowly discovers a terrorist plot to hijack the ship and take people aboard hostage. Meanwhile, Kaori, tired of Ryo, takes a holiday with her cousin who inexplicably wants to plow her. While evading capture, she steals some guy’s clothes, which contains a ticket for the cruise ship Fuji Maru, which she decides to just go on.
Ryo has been assigned the task of locating Shizuko Imumura (Kumiko Goto) by her father, the CEO of a prominent newspaper. Kaori has feelings for Ryo, and disapproves of his constant womanising. In the opening sequence, he tells us how his partner Makimura was killed during an investigation, and now looks after his sister Kaori (Joey Wong), who has grown into his assistant. City Hunter is a movie that is unfortunately not loaded with many of those moments.Ĭhan plays Ryo Saber (or Ryu Saeba according to my DVD), a private investigator in Tokyo. There’s a feeling that comes with that moment: that the scene you witnessed was worth the energy to film and time to watch. That musical theme is heard throughout the movie, and every time it comes on, it’s at a moment that you wish could be the status quo: Jackie Chan’s character has just done something awesome, he turns to the camera and gives a dashing smile. Things get a little too wacky in Wong Jing’s live action adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo’s manga
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