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Overview

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5.7/10   3,523 votes
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Director:
Teddy Chan
Writers:
Rod Dean (English adaptation)
Ivy Ho (writer)
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Release Date:
18 January 2001 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Action | Comedy | Thriller more
Tagline:
Ordinary guy. Extraordinary spy
Plot:
This action movie unfolds with the story of Bei, a salesman at a workout equipment store, who harbors dreams of adventures... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Chan is missing, unfortunately more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Jackie Chan ... Buck Yuen / Jackie Chan
Eric Tsang ... Many Liu
Vivian Hsu ... Yong
Min Kim ... Carmen Wong (as Kim Min Jeong)
Hsing-kuo Wu ... Lee Sang-Zen (as Wu Hsing Kuo)
Alfred Cheung ... Cheung the Lawyer
Anthony Rene Jones ... Philip Ashley (as Tony Jones)

Glory Simon ... TCN Field Reporter

Bradley James Allan ... Lee's Bodyguard
Tat-Ming Cheung ... Tsui
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Gordon Alexander ... Hitman

Didem Erol ... Girlfriend of Mafia Boss
Lillian Ho ... Candice
Paulyn Sun ... Looking at Gym Instruments
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Te wu mi cheng (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
The Accidental Spy (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for strong action violence, some drug content and nudity.
Runtime:
108 min | Argentina:92 min | USA:87 min
Country:
Hong Kong
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS (English version) | SDDS (English version) | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Hong Kong, China more

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Crew or equipment visible: When Jackie is attacked in the Turkish bath house and he runs up to the roof and around the domes, the shadow of the camera is visible in the lower right corner of the picture. more
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References Sink the Bismarck! (1960) more

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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
Chan is missing, unfortunately, 16 February 2004
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Author: NoeValleyJeff

Jackie Chan's greatest weakness in his movies is predictability: you know the good triumphs over evil, the good guys are easy to identify, Jackie drop-kicks some butt, and he takes time to save kids and babies (not to mention babes, who sometimes save him). You know that if he gets the girl, he doesn't get very far (PG all the way).

In his best movies, this is his greatest strength, too: against the repeated backdrop of white and black hats, you're never quite sure how he's going to manage to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat. You know he's going to get cornered by 6 black hats with 18 weapons in some storage room...and somehow use whatever's stored there to do away with the evil-doers.

Unfortunately, in the Accidental Spy, we're not kept guessing very long. The fight scenes are overly predictable (and, too often, the victim of a punch will start rolling their head back before they're punched). The plot is as unimportant to the Jackie Chan machine as usual, but, unlike other movies of his, the characters aren't memorable. The love-interest is lovely, but not interesting. The spy-who-coulda-have-loved-Jackie is relegated to making plot-digressing phone calls ("did you order a helicopter?").

And it's too bad, because there's otherwise some good material here: drug kingpins and orphans, lost parents, competing spy agencies, and beautiful locations (especially those Istanbul and other parts of Turkey). It's too bad that his escape from a Turkish bathhouse is wasted in this movie (you try to confront a half-dozen apes with only your bath towel to save you...and then not even the towel).

The dubbing doesn't help. Instead of offering the film in its original Chinese with subtitles (easily possible in this digital age), we're stuck with dubbing that sucks away what little life remains in these two-dimensional characters.

I really like Chan's movies, but he could have phoned his performance in for this one. Chan, unfortunately, is missing from his own movie.

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