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One might ask why I'm writing a head-to-head comparison of two movies that only share that loveable Jackie Chan as a common thread. They are from two different parts of his career. They are intended for two very different audiences. Well, I'm not quite sure myself, other than the fact that I watched them both in the same week. We'll see how this turns out. One never knows, does one...

CRAZY JACKIE CHAN SHIT: City Hunter wins hands down, a bit of an obvious statement, I know. To be fair, Rush Hour 2 has some really good hand-to-hand scenes, and they're (surprisingly) coherently shot. But no crazy-ass flying across a ballroom on a fake dolphin or using-a-babe-as-a-weapon-type moves.

MUSICAL NUMBERS: Tough tough call here. Rush Hour 2 has a damned funny Michael Jackson karaoke number by Chris "I was great in Friday...what happened?" Tucker, but City Hunter has the psychotic squealing and dancing of that Asian Kid 'n'Play duo, replete with fake machine guns, flying, and alot of shrieking Japanese pop. I mean, it's a pretty amazing production.

POLITICALLY INCORRECT MOMENTS: Jackie threatening to kick Chris' ass back to Africa, or Jackie gazing at a woman's breasts, only to have them magically turn into hamburgers? City Hunter's homo terrorist, or Chris Tucker mocking China and everything Chinese? By the way, I think Bill Maher is a complete jackass.

MUSIC: Aside from the great 80's pop musical number, City Hunter boasts one of those nightmarish soundtracks where every pratfall is accompianied by a Warner Brothers-style musical cue, except it sounds like it was made on an SK-1. Rush Hour 2 surprised me with a decent Lalo Schifrin score, the movie gloriously free of foot-dragging gangster-rap or brain-squeezing techno over the fight scenes. But, I mean, you just knew they were going to sing "War" again.

OVERALL LARFS: City Hunter is based off of a Japanese comic (they call 'em "mangos" over thar, cause they're a bit peculiar) I've never read. It's a hilarious movie if you enjoy straight up slapstick and top-notch physical comedy. The english dub may provide an entirely seperate level of entertainment. Rush Hour 2 is Rush Hour except Jackie and Chris switched dialogue.

END CREDIT OUTTAKES: City Hunter - not as good as the movie. Rush Hour 2 - better than the movie.

CONCLUSION: I'm going to go with City Hunter here, folks. I know, it's the old Jackie's-no-good-now-that-he's-gone-Hollywood crybaby sob story. And City Hunter is fucking funny and fucking strange. Plus, while Rush Hour 2 has two very beautiful actresses in it, City Hunter has four. Furthermore, City Hunter's prerequisite American Tough Badass Guy with a Ponytail has a big package, know what I mean? - tom Aug 14, 01

iv seen the site about city hunter vs rush houer 2 and i have only this to say there is no commption rush houer 2 is a hole lot better than city hunter and this is with saying but that thing about jackie chan going hollywood is not true hes a super internastiol actor drector witer and stunt man when he made rush houer in 1998 he made 3 other films what whent hollywood befor making rush houer 2 2001 a 3 year gap and hollywood never got to his head and i sine of by having 4 great resons why rush houer is best 1 hes doen

1. theres more cooler fight seens
2. much better acting
3. the plot
4. the good twist at the end but it was'ent that great but it was somthing what city hunter did'ent do :p

- marcus mackenzie .......... sorry if my typing is bad im not a good typer
may 27, 2002

Admitting you have a problem is the first step. Then give yourself to the Lord.

- Tom, No-Shadow Kick

I dont know where you get the idea of comparing City Hunter vs Rush Hour 2 , but then I dont know where *anyone* would rate city hunter ( boring, not even as good as the comic, no plot, not funny, annoying soundtrack ) above rush hour2.

Rush hour2 put Jackie on the map worldwide, and i'm happy for him. Chris Tucker is funny and together with Jackie , man, the movie is the bomb!

People have a right to their own opinion i guess.

My opinion is that when you saw Rush Hour 2, it must have been a very bad quality rip - screener - inverse color - black and white - 40x20 format - out of sync (4bit 8khz ) audio - and about 43 freezes as the movie ran because only that way the movie could have made a bad impression.

Well, nevertheless I enjoyed reading your review. Even if only to get some laughs.

Cheers :)

ZEEP, May 11, 2003

I saw it on a big pretty movie theatre screen. And the review is reallyonly here so you can get some laughs.

Tom, No-Shadow Kick June 5, 2003

zeep and Marcus(bad English) Mackenzie are all a bunch of morons, city hunter is prime Jackie Chan, funny, fast action well choreographed. the streetfighter scene was pure genius plus lots of hot oriental birds as well. the only thing that let city hunter down was the dubbing, please don't forget the films were made in different eras of movie styles.

Chris tucker is a funny guy but loves himself and talks too much a bit unlike Jackie, you lot should get stoned and watch it again and you might find your sense of humour,

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