KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Livewire242 No major plot giveaways here.The original Japanese story of Ryo Saeba bears similarities to the American live-action series The Equalizer. A man who formerly made his living working as a mercenary and assassin for a secret government organization leaves his job and turns to helping those in serious trouble who cannot help themselves, to appease his wounded conscience. Except Robert McCall never bragged about his erections. The City Hunter animated series was immensely popular despite using the same formula in every single episode.The City Hunter movie assumes that the viewer already knows something of the animated series. If, for example, you didn't know that Ryo was agonizingly poor and hungry in the later episodes of the animated series, then several of the food-chasing scenes lose their humour. Same is true of the fact that Ryo will take absolutely any private-eye job that involves spending time with beautiful women, and will refuse any job that doesn't.Other features from the series are: Ryo's cohort Saeko Nogami, a gorgeous police detective who takes perverse pleasure in using her feminine wiles to coerce favours out of him; a one-off character who is able to throw playing cards with deadly force like throwing stars; Ryo's trademark red Austin Mini; Kaori's hammers.With today's CGI, the mandatory scenes in which Kaori mashes Ryo with a gigantic 100-ton mallet would have been much better. They ended up being clumsy and unfunny.The plot is very typical City Hunter fare: Ryo is hired by a powerful businessman to find his runaway daughter and takes the job against his will. Meanwhile, the cruise ship he follows her to is taken hostage by a gang of mercenaries.The movie adds a couple of elements not present in the series, namely martial arts, and adult-oriented toilet humour. These are pretty standard for Hong Kong movies though, and help explain why it was a smash hit at the box office in Hong Kong.There are quite a number of very memorable scenes in this movie, particularly one in which Ryo and Saeko team up for a fight. Ryo swings the armed Saeko around to shoot enemies in all directions, and then does some ballroom dancing with her when they're done. In another scene, Bruce Lee coaches Jackie through a fight in a movie theatre. The fight in the arcade... I'll say no more--you just have to see it.If you're looking for serious butt-kicking, this is not the Jackie Chan film for you. This film is for the Airplane/Naked Gun crowd with a taste for action.

Andrew_P This film is one of the funniest Jackie Chan films I have ever seen! It is full of comic action from start to finish, including a skateboard chase, quirky shopping-center mishaps, a nice tribute to Bruce Lee, and some HK pop song. The parody of the popular "Street Fighter" arcade game was particularly amusing. The whole movie is admittedly a little weird and I can't really describe it well. It has a bit of a Bollywood feel about it, but don't let that put you off. This film is in my opinion, one of the best pieces of Kung Foolery on the planet! If you do have broadband I would suggest that you check out the trailer on the IMDb database as it gives an accurate perception of the movie.

dcmccants Fun fun and more fun. Thats the way all films should be. I could watch this movie 100 times in a row, without a break. This film is so good, I bet it could cure many an illness. Jackie Chan is the best actor in the world. Forget Tom Cruise or any of those other phonies. They couldn't make a movie like City Hunter. I might actually learn Mandarin someday, so I can randomly quote lines from the movie during a job interview. Yeah, its that good. The words sound so cool, you want repeat them many times without even learning the meaning. Anyway, if you readers ever get a chance to see this movie, check it out. The laughs don't stop, plus the song Jackie Chan sings at the beginning and end of the movie is pretty cool.

AwesomeWolf 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.