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Jackie Chan - Mister Nice Guy on DVD (1997)

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Average rating: 63%
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Starring: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Sammo Hung, Barry Otto, Joyce Godenzi, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Peter Houghton, Miki Lee, Peter Lindsay, Karen McLymont, Vince Poletto
Director: Sammo Hung
Studio: ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time: 85 mins
Certificate: 15
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Released: 30/08/1999

Brief synopsis of Jackie Chan - Mister Nice Guy

In Sammo Hung's MR. NICE GUY, Jackie Chan plays a popular TV chef (also named Jackie) who accidentally saves a reporter pursued by two warring gangs--one that looks like the standard Cosa Nostra types, the other a group of upstarts who could have been cast in THE WARRIORS. After the two gangs decide to come after Jackie, he drops his nice guy image and fights back.
Originally slated to be the fifth movie in Chan's POLICE STORY series, the film is filled with Chan's trademark physical comedy and stunts--one of which went awry and briefly confined him to a neck brace. A battle at a construction site recalls the best Keystone Cop gags, and the finale involving a 120-ton truck tops the hovercraft sequence in RUMBLE IN THE BRONX for sheer destructiveness. Filmed in English, this is the second collaboration between director Sammo Hung and Chan in the 1990s and the first time Hung directed Chan since DRAGONS FOREVER (1987). Taiwanese singer Miki Lee makes her film debut as Chan's girlfriend, and there are cameos by Hung; his wife, Joyce Godenzi; and the Pepsi Corporation.

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Rated - 3 starsgood stuff!

A customer from Reading , 17/09/2004

Mostly dubbed, but done well, with a couple of US actors thrown in, excellent stunts more so than you'd see in his latest films...his earlier ones are probably more inventive so well worth watching if you're a fan...if not, still a fun film!!

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Rated - 4 starsIf you like Jackie Chan Movies rent this

A customer from Scunthorpe,England , 22/02/2005

Kung Fu Comedy a funny film that the whole family enjoyed.

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Rated - 5 starsNo More Mr Nice Guy

A customer from England , 06/04/2005

Melbourne, Australia. TV Journalist Diana tapes evidence against drug lord Giancarlo, but on her way away from the scene, she is spotted and has to run. In the street, she runs into TV cook Jackie, whose knowledge of martial arts helps her survive the threat. Accidentally, her VHS-tape then gets mixed up with some kid's films in Jackie's car and so all the bad guys are after him as well as Diana, without him knowing where to find the right tape. But when Jackie's visiting girlfriend Miki gets kidnapped for the tape as ransom, Jackie puts the image of being the nice and friendly TV cook aside and goes to see Mr. Giancarlo himself to get her back: playtime's over.

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Rated - 4 starsSammo Directs Jackie - Yeah!

Ian Davies from South Wales , 12/05/2005

Set in Australia, in this one Jackie is a TV Chef who gets mixed up with organised crime via an investigative reporter and a video tape. This is the first time Jackie has worked with Sammo Hung for about ten years, and it has to be said that Sammo Directs Jackie better than anyone else when it comes to fight scenes. Once again Jackie is surrounded by a bevvy of beauties. (I'm not complaining!) This film does lack the 'big fight' at the end. Richard Norton is largely wasted as he doesn't have a propper fight with Jackie. Sammo makes a very funny cameo as a hapless bicycle rider who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The fight on the building site is one of Jackie's best ever.

Another film where the action is more prominent than the fights, but still one of Jackies better efforts.

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Rated - 3 starsgood stuff!

A customer from Reading , 17/09/2004

Mostly dubbed, but done well, with a couple of US actors thrown in, excellent stunts more so than you'd see in his latest films...his earlier ones are probably more inventive so well worth watching if you're a fan...if not, still a fun film!!

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Rated - 5 starsNo More Mr Nice Guy

A customer from England , 06/04/2005

Melbourne, Australia. TV Journalist Diana tapes evidence against drug lord Giancarlo, but on her way away from the scene, she is spotted and has to run. In the street, she runs into TV cook Jackie, whose knowledge of martial arts helps her survive the threat. Accidentally, her VHS-tape then gets mixed up with some kid's films in Jackie's car and so all the bad guys are after him as well as Diana, without him knowing where to find the right tape. But when Jackie's visiting girlfriend Miki gets kidnapped for the tape as ransom, Jackie puts the image of being the nice and friendly TV cook aside and goes to see Mr. Giancarlo himself to get her back: playtime's over.

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