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I compile 10 of City Hunter 's silliest moments.

Based on the classic manga (and the anime series) of the same name, City Hunter was a Hong Kong comedy starring Jackie Chan. Made in 1993, it tried to stay true to the spirit of the manga while being very much a Chan comedy. The result was a very, very silly flick which certainly felt like a Jackie Chan film but not so much like a City Hunter film. For one thing, Chan looks nothing like the character and, as good as he is in this, it's impossible to picture him as the young, tall, broad-shouldered hunk Ryo Saeba's meant to be so you just have to accept him as Jackie Chan. The plot also takes liberties to say the least, despite its very simplistic good guys vs bad guys storyline. Whereas the anime had very much a dark, film noir tone with its moody visuals and cool soundtrack, this City Hunter looks very 90's and goes for purely generic slapstick action comedy antics, nothing special. I mean, as a cartoonish comedy, it's a fun film, don't get me wrong. I do lik

For someone like me, who enjoys Jules Verne's classic novels, reviewing a big, Hollywood, kid-friendly modern day movie adaptation of Around The World In 80 Days isn't easy. Especially since, usually, these new adaptations barely have anything to do with the source material. Remember that Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 3D movie with Brendan Fraser? You don't? Good. Honestly, I was expecting about the same level of laziness from this movie. I thought this would bypass the book completely and do its own thing without ever referencing what it's actually adapting. Surprisingly, as much as the movie changes stuff from the book, and it changes A LOT, there is still an attempt to keep the basics of that plot in there. For example, the whole arc which follows Jackie Chan's character and is, in fact, a big subplot in the movie: none of it happens in the book. Something about a Jade Buddha being stolen from Chan's village in China, him robbing it back and