Mr. Nice Guy is
one of Jackie Chan’s movies that just fails to live up to the expected
excitement you would usually get from a Jackie Chan movie. It's sad because
before this movie, Jackie Chan did The
Legend of Drunken Master (1994), Rumble
in the Bronx (1995), and Police
Story 4: First Strike (1996), which were all masterpieces. Those three
showcased his fluidity as a martial artist, and the plots were easy to follow
and enjoy.
Here, Jackie
Chan seems to be in some kind of caged environment, and the story is weak. They
made the movie move at a fast pace in the beginning, but then the pace drops
and becomes inconsistent throughout. The story tries so hard to add complexity
to a case that should be so simple.
The movie tries
to make more of the female characters than they were supposed to be. This is
something you didn’t get with the other female lead, Anita Mui, in The
Legend of Drunken Master (1994) and Rumble
in the Bronx (1995).
Here, we get to
see Jackie pull off some culinary skills. We start the movie by meeting the bad
guy, his name is Giancarlo. Giancarlo is the stereotypical bad guy, who frowns
for no reason, laughs hard, and tries to pass his message across by using intimidation
in his voice. We see he’s involved in a drug deal that has already gotten out
of hand. Unknown to Giancarlo and his gang, a reporter was tailing them and
recorded everything. This is where Jackie comes in. She’s found out, and when
she’s trying to escape, she bumps into Jackie, who, as we said, is a cook with
his own cooking show.
In his process
of trying to help the lady, he ends up beating up the men, and they both
escape. Jackie is popular, and the men know where to find him, so they go after
him and the journalist.
To make Jackie’s
problem worse, he has to handle all this while caring for his girlfriend, who
just flew in and is not familiar with the way things are.
So the movie is
a big chase between Giancarlo and the gang he was dealing with in the
beginning, and Jackie with the lady reporter.
Mr. Nice Guy was
one of those Jackie Chan films that I never quite saw often because there’s
basically nothing to enjoy here, but we all saw it the moment it came out back
in the days, only to regret it.
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