| Vincent Kok's movie starring Jackie Chan and Shu Qi is a romantic comedy with action mixed in resulting in an enjoyable little tale. It's far from the greatest romance ever told but one shouldn't demand that much depth from a Lunar New Year film or Jackie Chan film for that matter. On the other hand it's nice to see Jackie challenging his audience and I personally thinks it's refreshing to see him wanting to merge these two movie elements. There is passable chemistry between the leads and I also largely enjoyed Emil Chow as the movie's nice bad guy. That's also what makes Gorgeous notable. It's a friendly and nice movie even down to the bad guy. The main attraction, in terms of action, is the two bouts between Brad Allen and Jackie. Very little of it seems wire supported and it's great to see Jackie do some hand to hand combat (boxing in this case). Even here the movie remains light when we see the two fighters make sure it's fought fair. The R1 dvd has the original language track but has been cut down from it's original length. The Universe dvd is uncut. |
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