This kind of movie is refreshing, because it's:
- Completely unnecessarily crazy
- Nicely colorful
- Has lots of asian beauties in it
-Although typically misandristic, it has tons of atypical equality as well (women get actually punched by men -- this is an extremely rare sight in hollyweird movies, but why should it be, since women are better than men at everything and can do everything men can do (except apparently take punches?))
- Ridiculously over-the-top
- A movie that has Joey Wong (or is it Joey Wang, Wang Tsu Hsien, or Joey Ong Jyo Han/Hen? These chinese transliterations are such a mess) in it. She's not as 'mythical beauty' as she's in 'A Chinese Ghost Story', but still proper eyecandy
- Jackie Chan playing a hungry pervert (you don't usually see that - err, ok, I just remembered some very old movies, like 'Drunken Master')
As Jackie Chan's movies are all bad (before you kung-fu punch me, think about it - would you still watch the movies if ALL kung-fu and Jackie's stunts were removed from them?), we only have the fight scenes and kung-fu to judge them by.
And the best fight scenes are in 'Who Am I', 'First Strike', 'Snake in the Eagle's Shadow', 'Legend of the Drunken Master', 'Fearless Hyena' (just look at that fight against multiple 'sword-spearmen' (I don't know what those things are called)!), and.. sigh, in the name of honesty, I have to also mention that _awful_ movie that I hate more than any other, 'Gorgeous', because its fight scenes are just immaculate, despite being so new.
City Hunter is like a live-action cartoon and I still don't 100% know what to think about it. It messes with your mind with its gorgeous women that then are shown to be realistically overpowered and typically misandristic, but then our protagonist beats the clothes out of a group of gorgeous women... it's like, WHAT did I just see? And then suddenly Jackie is Chun-Li, and that's so weird - but the fight scene is so well done, you don't know what to do.
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