Follows the antics of private eye Ryu Saeba. While searching for the runaway daughter of a publishing tycoon, Ryu by coincidence ends up on a cruise ship hijacked by ruthless American criminals to take the passengers hostage. Assisted by his jealous female assistant, the runaway, two female undercover cops, and a male gambler, Ryu must foil the nefarious plot. Combines broad humor focusing on Ryu's lechery and hunger with action sequences. Extremely silly comedy about a self-indulgent private investigator who winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food. Jackie Chan plays a womanizing private eye known as City Hunter in this Wong Jing directed movie. The movie is played for surreal laughs part of the time. But with Wong Jing at the helm of this comic strip of a movie, that is no surprise. When you watch this movie, you realize that Jackie Chan knows how to pick stories and direct himself better than anyone else.<br/><br/>I saw this movie on the Media Arts DVD released in April, 1999. The Japanese manufactured DVD has subtitles in 8 languages, including English and Spanish. The aspect ratio is 2.35 and the image quality is very fine. I was expecting this movie to be an ordinary Jackie Chan movie, but I got surprised. This movie is extremely funny, I laughed my guts off. The action scenes are high quality acrobatics like usual in Jackie's movies and there's some hilarious scenes like the Street Fighter-scene. I doubt that everyone would like this movie but if you like Jackie Chan you must see this.
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