Without Kaori's help the agency would be insolvent. She makes sure he takes care of business however his personal business is centered on women. Gorgeous women! Everyone in the cast looks cool. And hot! They could have titled this one "Gorgeous!" The single person who does not look cool, but rather the fool, is Kaori's cousin. Every person ever on camera is just perfect. The makeup and costume departments must have worked overtime. No hair out of place, no mussed clothes. Perfect people!

Rich people too!

Ryu is hired to find his missing daughter of a very wealthy man. She has become rebellious and took off on her own. He agrees to find her not only for the money but also because the daughter is also a beautiful gymnast. While looking for a disguise Kiyoko Inamura (Kumiko Goto), discovers a ticket for a cruise ship and decides that's exactly what sounds like fun.

There are several running gags. Some run better than others. When Ryu isn't looking for women he is looking for a meal. Kaori goes to his place to deliver birthday greetings and finds him surrounded by, yes, gorgeous women! Lots of beautiful girls showing off their best assets. She is furious! She still wants to go on the cruise so she asks her cousin to accompany her on the trip.

Ryu follows Kiyoko and has to smuggle himself on to the ship. And he is still hungry! In the meantime Kyoko accidentally discovers there are terrorist thieves on board who plan on robbing and kidnapping all the passengers! She runs to tell a ship officer what she knows and unfortunately he too is involved. She ends up in the baggage area where Ryu has been hiding.

Ryu saves her but then he must find a way to keep her safe while he acts on the information she tells him about the gang on board. Unknown to him he has some help. Nogami (Chingmy Yau) who is a special agent on board to investigate a possible robbery. She brings along her large breasted cousin who keeps falling over, forward of course. Nogami is naturally a great fighter well versed in the martial arts plus she has enough firearms and ammunition to take on an army. More assistance comes about when Leon Lai, a master of card player and gambling who can also use cards as weapons joins in to help with the vicious thieves.

Ryu is all over the ship taking out as many bad guys as he can, while still looking cool. He fights with Gary Daniels in an interesting fight in a stateroom but is captured by the gang lead by Richard Norton (never looking better) as Mr. "Big Mac" MacDonald. He also has a fight that's definitely different in a scene playing as characters in from "Streetfighter II". That's a bit dated now but some fans will remember the game. Ken Lo is one of the bad guys but he has a brief amusing scene with Kaori's cousin.

There are two young guys who are in real life musicians. They perform and I believe they also wrote "Gala Gala Happy". No matter how you try to translate it the song just doesn't do much for the movie. Historically much Japanese music is not created to rhyme, making the music feel awkward. But we must remember this is all about eye candy and in that respect it absolutely succeeds!

The finale is an extended fight scene that Jackie worked hard on to look different than the way he fought in other films. Unfortunately he injured his shoulder early on in filming and he continued to have difficulty though you won't notice it in the movie. Mars replaces Norton in quite a bit of the fight. Whatever it takes to look good!

Jackie plays the whole movie as comedy. Over the top silly comedy, goofing around, hamming it up for the camera, and of course looking great while doing so. This is a Wong Jing picture meaning the humor is not sophisticated and there is no shortage of it. It did seem a little odd to see women being punched and hit and rolling their eyes. Just some more Wong Jing hilarity!

This is not a great movie nor is it without any value. Great eye candy if you want to see beautiful people and can ignore Wong Jing's humor when it doesn't work. You must at least see this movie! It's one of those "you will never see Jackie like this again" movies. Remember when you see it to not worry about plot lines and such. The important thing is Jackie looks cool while doing some darn good fighting!

To get any kind of enjoyment out of this maniacal mess of a movie, I would put forth that you either have to be a huge fan of Jackie, the original manga, or Wong Jing's style of infantile comedy. Now, I'm not familiar with the source material. But I love Jackie, and have been known to enjoy a Wong Jing movie or two. I do, however, have a really hard time getting into the wackiness on display here. The comedy is just too Looney Tunes for my taste. All the manga references are lost on me, and even the fights and the action are played for laughs, and not up to Jackie's usual standard, if you ask me.

So who can you blame for this misguided effort? Jackie or Wong Jing? Well, even though this is very much a Wong Jing movie, I think it's safe to assume that Jackie was somewhat on board with the weird and wacky style. It's not like him to bite his tongue if he's unsatisfied. Hell, he more or less booted none other than Lau Kar Leung off "Drunken Master 2", when he didn't like the way things were going. So I place the blame for this bastard child of a movie squarely on both Jackie and Wong, in equal measure.

It is not totally without merit though. The scene where Jackie fights the two towering black dudes, and takes them down by mimicking Bruce Lee's techniques against Kareem Abdul Jabbar from "Game Of Death", playing on a screen next to them, is kind of funny. As is the "Street Fighter" game parody, and a couple of other gags. Plus, there is the high babe factor to consider. But it is just not enough to save what is, in my mind, a pretty dire work of unrestrained silliness.

Jackie was not overly pleased with the finished result himself. And I think it's safe to say that there was no love lost between him and Wong Jing after this. Solid proof of that would be Wong Jing's 1995 Jet Li movie "High Risk", where Jackie, his manager, and father were lampooned in a rather unflattering manner.

In any event, "City Hunter" is probably one of Jackie's least appealing films of the 90's. And given his rather lackluster output in the latter half of that decade, that is saying a lot.

The comedy in this film is to forced and basically is old humor, but a lot of it was funny.

Jackie made this film for fun and it seems like it. There is pretty good action and good fighting.

I'm not a big fan of anime but the film does follow that foundation. I guess Jackie and Wong Jing don't mix well but managed to make it very entertaining. By the way, expect Ken Lo a new role (a very woman role).

School Grade 81% worth a look.

But it's a pretty good movie, I must admit. Probably, it's THE funniest Jackie Chan movie. I'm not a big fan of HK comedies, but watching this flick I laughed a lot! Sometimes, the combination of action and comedy was just brilliant. Another aspect that I really liked was the look of the movie. Gorgeous women, colorful villains, good cameos, beautiful interiors - it was an eye-candy. Some reminders of a great Girls-With-Guns genre.

I didn't mind over-the-top acting, which was just right for this kind of a movie. The only thing I didn't like was weird gag with the arcade game .I sat through this whole scene wondering, "What the hell that's supposed to mean?!Live adaptation of "Street fighter"?What's the point?" Really, I didn't get it.

As for pure Jackie Chan action - there was some. The only complaint about it - very bad doubling for Richard Norton.

Overall, - great mix of comedy and action, lots of fun and beautiful girls!!!