Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jackie Chan | ... | Ryu Saeba | |
Joey Wang | ... | Kaori Makimura / Carrie | |
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Kumiko Goto | ... | Shizuko Imamura / Kyoko |
Chingmy Yau | ... | Saeko Nogami / Anna | |
Gary Daniels | ... | MacDonald's Main Henchman | |
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Tzui-Pin Wen | ... | Saeko's Friend (as Carol Wan) |
Leon Lai | ... | Kôtetsu / Gundam | |
Lap-Man Tan | ... | Rocky | |
Ken Lo | ... | Chen Ta-Wen (as Wai-kwong Lo) | |
Eric Kot | ... | DJ Soft | |
Jan Lamb | ... | DJ Hard (as Jan Lam) | |
Richard Norton | ... | Col. MacDonald | |
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San Yip | ||
Kei-Yan Lam | |||
Donna Chu |
While searching for the daughter of a Japanese publishing magnate, private investigator Ryu Saeba and his assistant Kaori are caught up in the middle of a cruise liner highjacking. It's up to Ryu to save the day...but can he do it on an empty stomach? Written by Christopher E. Meadows <cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu>
I like this film. I was already familiar with the City Hunter animé, which to be honest is even more risqué than this Wong Jing offering.
Jackie Chan is hilarious, but in a slightly different way to his usual comedy persona. You have to remember when you watch this film, that you're watching a live action cartoon. This will allow you to take this film with a pinch of salt, and in so-doing you will not take it too seriously.
There is plenty of action in this film, kung-fu included, mostly because Jackie Chan plays Ryu Saeba. The fighting is terrific, and once again hilarious, as you see big, mean baddies reduced to comical fighting roles, rather than the more serious bleeding, and sweating, then dying roles.
Chingmy Yau is in this film, looking gorgeous, as usual. She is given more license than most women in Wong Jing films to be independent, and not to be a hot idiot, but essentially, she remains a hot idiot.
I particularly enjoyed the nod to Bruce Lee in this film, when Chan is forced to fight two massive bad guys in a cinema.
Overall, this is a fun film. Chan fans will enjoy it. City Hunter fans will enjoy it. Wong Jing fans will enjoy it. Non-fans of the aforementioned may not enjoy it, and women's lib chicks will find it insulting and degrading to women, but to be honest, they need to get a life and get into the goddamn kitchen to make me something to eat!