Review of City Hunter (1993) by Ryan V — 05 Mar 2017

Jackie Chan plays a perverted private eye who follows a runaway heiress to a cruise ship that's subsequently hijacked by terrorists. This leads to balletic martial arts fights, sound effects lifted straight out of Looney Tunes, and numerous examples of beautiful women firing guns in revealing clothing.

City Hunter is best-known to American audiences for the scene where Jackie Chan gets slapped into an arcade console and gets warped into both the costumes and abilities of various characters from the Street Fighter series.

Other than that weird outlier, this movie is a goofy mess that nonetheless provides ample opportunity for its star to characteristically split the difference between Bruce Lee and Buster Keaton. Few would accuse City Hunter of being transcendent, but it's a fun slice of schlocky action cheese if one happens to be in the mood for it.