Advantages: Good comedy action scenes, good acting from Chan, pretty entertaining Disadvantages: The story is predictable/formulaic, the acting (apart from Chan) wasn't great, some parts subtitled
...and saw that it starred Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung (both of which I like, Jackie Chan is one of my favourite actors and I was a fan of the TV show Martial Law that starred Sammo Hung), which made me think - a-ha! yet another use for my trusty and heavily used new hard disk recorder lol and what a useful piece of equipment that is... anyway, I read the basic plotline from the listing, which basically set the story in a few lines, though I'll explain ... ...about Jackie (who, incidentally, plays someone with his same name, Jackie) is a TV chef in Australia (as random as that is! which is possibly the only original part of the story I must say unfortunately), who accidentally ends up being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as he (being the nice guy that he is, as indicated by the movie name) spots a lady in peril (oh no!), that lady being a reporter who had filmed some very dodgy goings ons by a ...
IzzyS 08.10.2007
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Advantages: All action but little blood Disadvantages: none
Jackie Chan is a tv chef in Australia who inadvertently gets caught up in a Mafia gang's quest to retrieve a video made by a young, female tv reporter.
The action comes thick and fast and the set pieces (Chan's chase through the city on a horse-drawn carriage, the fighting at the building site, including the incredible roll over a rotating circular saw - very Bond!) are immaculate and breath-taking, and the finale, when the house is devastated by ...
wildchild 25.07.2000
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