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Jackie Chan | ... | ||
Qi Shu | ... |
Bu
(as Shu Qi)
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Tony Chiu Wai Leung | ... |
Albert
(as Tony Leung)
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Emil Chau | ... |
L.W. Lo
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Richie Jen | ... |
Long-Yi
(as Richie Ren)
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Ken Lo | ... |
Lo's Bodyguard
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Sung Young Chen | ... |
Bu's Father
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Elaine Jin | ... |
Bu's Mother
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Bradley James Allan | ... |
Alan
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Tats Lau | ... |
Chan's Assistant
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Vincent Kok | ... |
Man at Pier
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Sandra Kwan Yue Ng | ... |
Airport Pickpocket
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Sam Lee | ... |
Robber
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Kar-Ying Law | ... |
Restaurant Manager
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Stephen Chow | ... |
H.K. Police Officer
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A Taiwanese girl named Bu has just been proposed to. While pondering the proposal, she finds a message in a bottle which inspires her go to Hong Kong to meet the guy, Albert, who wrote the message. However, she finds out that Albert is gay. A successful playboy businessman CN, and Howie have been rivals in love and business since school days. Howie finds out that CN is dating his girl and also trying to take over his company. Howie tells his guys to teach CN a lesson. Bu happens to be there and saves CN, but decides to fake her identity and scheme to make him fall in love with her. In the meantime Howie, who wants to teach CN a humiliating lesson, hires a highly trained foreign fighter to beat him. Written by Wanfan
Being a big Jackie Chan fan,and knowing from experience how much better the HK versions of his films are,I picked the HK version of this up last week,and I cant tell you how much I loved this one.Im probably one of the few Jackie fans stateside that likes the humor in most of his older movies,as well as the action,so this one really made me laugh,and Shu Qi is just luminous as the female lead.One thing I really liked about this one was the charactarizations of so many of the other players had real dimension to them,including the so called bad guys.And Ive noticed that most of the best one on one fight scenes in his movies are the ones with a fighter thats treated as an equal,and fought as clean,fair fights,(examples:In Wheels on Meals,Dragons Forever,Who Am I,etc.)and his two fights with Bradely James Allen are good examples of this. I know a lot of guys who watch Jackie just for the fights and stunts are dissapointed with this one,the rest of us with a more open mind will probably like this almost as much as I do.