City Hunter (1993) Review

City Hunter (城市獵人; Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 martial arts-action film based on the Japanese manga City Hunter. It was made by Golden Harvest and Paragon Films. The film was directed by Wong Jing and starred an international cast that included Hong Kong super star Jackie Chan as Ryo Saeba. After City Hunter's release, Chan not only disowned the film, but attacked Wong personally in the press. In his subsequent movie High Risk, Wong struck back by modeling a character after Chan, insinuating that Chan was actually a boozing womanizer and a fraud who didn't really do his own stunts after all. The film offended Chan greatly and started a feud between him and one of the film's stars, Jet Li—a feud that would not end until Jet Li publicly apologized for his involvement. The two have since become friends, and later made The Forbidden Kingdom, marking their first film together as lead actors. The film's plot saw Ryo and Kaori (Joey Wong) accepting a job to find the run away daughter of a businessman. The girl, named Shizuko (Kumiko Goto), escapes onto a cruise ship with Ryo, Kaori and Saeko (Chingmy Yau) on her tail. The ship is then hijacked, and it's up to Ryo and the girls to free the ship. The terrorists are led by an American ex-marine (Richard Norton) with seemingly no real back story ('a big shot', as Ryo calls him in the dub). When introducing himself to the terrified passengers, he says his name is 'Mac', but the passengers can call him 'Mac Donald'. Although he informs them that he will take all the rich men on board to Thailand, he actually plays them at baccarat one by one before simply shooting them. His plan is foiled not by Ryo Saeba at first but by Wong Jing's own God of Gamblers style character who joins Ryo and Saeko as a third action character. Shizuko herself is also capable of performing some gymnastic stunts. Amongst the uniformed terrorists is an American martial artist (played by English Gary Daniels) whom Ryo ultimately defeats in the Street Fighter II section of the movie. There is also a ludicrous gay terrorist in a short cameo by stuntman Kenneth Low. The film features many typical Hong Kong Wong Jing action set pieces as well as many homages to obvious Chinese classics such as a scene where Ryo enters a movie theater where Bruce Lee's 'Game of Death' is playing. Upon watching Bruce Lee face Kareem Abdul Jabbar on screen, he remarks that he could defeat a couple of tall black guys. Of course, said black guys appear, and Ryo isn't able to defeat them without hints from the master on screen. Upon winning the fight, Ryo says 'Thanks Bruce Lee' to the celluloid Bruce, who promptly replies 'You are welcome' causing Jackie Chan to make the silly noises and faces that are the film's trademark and run from the theater. Although Chan's ridiculous character and the slapstick 'manga in motion' scenes are meant to capture the feel of the manga, Wong Jing has invented his own wacky cartoonish movie inspired by it.

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