Anderson O
Too much of an adaptation to its source material for its own good. Silly in action and offbeat pacing. City Hunter is a bland take on its source material that’a meant for laughs, and goofiness, but repetitive and tedious as humor gets old really quickly.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
05/08/24
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Jimmy P
Not much of an adaptation of the manga but a really fun flick nonetheless.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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carlos t
Minha opinião: Um filme que já assisti várias vezes. Eu gosto de assistir a #JackieChan sou #fã desde minha infância, antes mesmo que o brasileiro o conhece. O Imitei por várias vezes seu estilo. E sim City Hunter é mais uma marca deste artista impar. O filme reproduz os #animes com o mesmo nome, que assisti quando estive no Japão. O seu lado #comico #mulherengo e os enormes #martelos kkkkk O filme conta com elenco de mulheres top 10. Bem naquela época, bem que estão bem conservadas até hoje. Uma curiosidade que a atriz Kumiko Goto é casada com o piloto de F1 @jeanalesi e tem 3 filhos. Foi dado a City Hunter a tarefa de resgatar a filha de um magnata japonês. Assim ele embarca em cruzeiro onde esta Kumiko, mas junto também entra um grupo de ladrões. Será que City Hunter vencerá os bandidos e resgatar Kumiko além de sua parceira de sempre Joe Wong. Este filme é mais comédia forçada, tanto que tem o momento que vemos #StreetFighter onde Jackie esta de #chulin #honda muito legal. Prepare a pipoca e o guaraná, para rir.
Roteiro: doido
Vale apena assistir? sim
Nota: 7,5
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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Ryo Saeba (Jackie Chan) is a detective who fights crime in Tokyo along with his partner Hideyuki Makimura (Michael Wong) under the business name of City Hunter. When Hideyuki is murdered, Ryo agrees to watch out for his sister Kaori (Joey Wong), who is secretly in love with the man who has helped to raise her.
Ryo and Kaori are hired to locate the daughter of a CEO, Shizuko Imamura (Kumiko Goto), which creates a chase through a skatepark and finds everyone on a cruise ship that is being taken over by Col. Donald "Don Mac" MacDonald (Richard Norton) and his operatives.
What follows is utter lunacy, with Ryo fighting in front of a screen showing Game of Death and basically becoming Bruce Lee, a card-throwing gambler called Kao Ta (Leon Lai), Chan being thrown into a Street Fighter game and a fight turning into multiple characters from the game being turned into real fighters and, of course, Kaori getting sick of Ryo picking up women and knocking him into orbit with a giant cartoon hammer.
While one of Chan's least favorite movies, I found it wacky and the action moves quickly. This is a film that totally entertained me, particularly the arcade fight.
There have also been three animated films, .357 Magnum, Bay City Wars and Million Dollar Conspiracy, as well as Saviour of the Soul, which takes the main story of City Hunter and changes the names. There's also a French film based on City Hunter, Nicky Larson et le Parfum de Cupidon (Nicky Larson and Cupid's Perfume).
Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Unbelievably terrible. This somehow feels like Jacky Chan trying to appear as being an ever grimassing acrobat amateur cracking horrible jokes in a sunday morning children hour on public cable. And in incredibly distasteful late 80s wardrobe, yuck.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/16/23
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While this movie is essentially a Naked Gun movie, just starring Jackie Chan and using an Anime intellectual property, I cannot help but greatly appreciate the film's energy, well-staged action beats, fun music, colorful & happy tone, and creativity of some of the momentary gags. Well, maybe creativity isn't quite the right word, but they do set up some interesting comedic situations, and they milk these situations quite effectively, and the movie also knows exactly when to let a scene end - Sometimes comedies create funny scenes that go on way too long, but City Hunter is luckily free of this problem; if you don't think an outright comedic scene is funny, it'll be over in about a minute. If the movie has any genuine flaw it's that it has a perfect ending, and then sticks around for another 6-7 minutes in a rather flat epilogue that wasn't at all needed, and is easily the weakest part of the movie. Before that, however, the movie is commonly laugh-out-loud funny (or maybe silly being a more accurate word), commonly showcasing some genuinely excellent action. With that, there's actually no real offensive jokes - some people claim that one joke is homophobic, but since the joke itself is actually just a subversion of Action Cinema cliché, I would respectfully disagree. Instead, everything is fast, energetic and enthusiastic, even the arguments and chases. Just...note that there's a surprisingly high body count, which may sound odd considering the movie's excessively wacky tone, but it's true. If this is fine with you, I'd absolutely recommend this one.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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