Story straight out of late 70s and 80s, Ryo Saeba also known as City Hunter is a ladies man, a sleazy one at that. He and his partner are on a case to find a missing girl, simultaneously there are random cases of people getting super strength, acting strange before dying. The missing girl they are searching for too has super strength and soon it is revealed that she is a victim of human trial where Angel dust drug was experimented on her. With the police struggling to get anywhere close to solve this case, it is upto City Hunter along with a new partner to save the girl and also bring the baddies to his own form of justice.
I had fun watching the Jackie Chan version of City Hunter when I was a kid. Now, I am not much of a fan and neither I am any aware of the Manga series. This film belonged to the 80s and setting the story in the current time simply doesn't work for it. The action choreography is decent enough but being self aware alone is of no help as the film jumps from being corny to silly to cringe throughout. This one is strictly for the fans of source material and for the rest, it barely provides any engaging story to get invested in.
I had fun watching the Jackie Chan version of City Hunter when I was a kid. Now, I am not much of a fan and neither I am any aware of the Manga series. This film belonged to the 80s and setting the story in the current time simply doesn't work for it. The action choreography is decent enough but being self aware alone is of no help as the film jumps from being corny to silly to cringe throughout. This one is strictly for the fans of source material and for the rest, it barely provides any engaging story to get invested in.