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Homo/lesbian or just sisters?

Since, the relationship between Eiko and the other woman/girl (who was too "friendly/close") is not mentioned, so I will just think that they're sisters. And the male hatred is quite visible, also mentioned by "Kokoro" who was created by a man.
Otherwise, it's just a lower than mid-level.

People think it’s woke because it’s not white

It is NOT woke. The diversity of the group reflects how random the average DnD party is. Of course the barbarian is a female Mexican. Because your Mexican buddy made his character a female. Of course the leader of the group is a handsome bard with no combat skills. That’s how you play the game. He maxed out his charisma and intelligence but not his strength etc. He’s a bard. The black wizard isn’t automatically good at everything like it would be if it were woke. The “super good guy” good at everything black guy paladin is played for laughs.
This is a great adventure romp that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is fun for the whole family. The bad guy is a con artist politician that gives the people bread and circuses. It’s basically a libertarian folk tale.

Low Quality Writing

Low quality writing. Super contrived. A few mildly woke moments, but it seems the conservative dialogue is all contrived to get a particular audience.

Terrible story/uncool hero

The story and villain is subpar. As the other reviewer noted, instead of a bombshell southern bell, Raylan shacks up with a frumpy inner city black woman. The original series had plenty of strong black and female characters, and they never had to make Raylan a dopey loser to do it.

Every woke trope

Aside from my below review on wokeness, the quality of writing is generally low compared to Bosch. Instead of throwing you into the story and slowly introducing characters over the course of several seasons like Bosch did, you get a clunky exposition scene of Ballard introducing her team all at once. Fiction writing should show and not tell. The writing is contrived and more in line with what you expect from network TV prime time slog. This show is so focused on the woke message they forgot how to write a good script. The men are all dumb. They are either perpetrators, or guilty by association or gay. Both Bosch series establish that there are many good honorable cops in the LAPD. In this show that is erased. A grandparent figure basically says all the cops are capable of Rodney King level racism, and that’s why the force needs black cops.
The only good male character is gay, everyone other man is generally a pig unless he’s a minority. There’s a clear double standard as well. A grandma oogles a naked man, and it’s played for laughs. In the same episode a book where guys rate sexual encounters is seen as abusive and wrong. One of the women in the book literally murdered a guy and the detectives feel remorse for her instead of the murder victim.

Jackie is not even tlying

Low budget is one (forgivable) thing, but low effort is another. Especially when compounded with low budget.

I'm a fan of Chan, I tend to think every little thing he does is magic, but on this one, just call the police.


This movie has nothing to do with the City Hunter franchise, it's just a generic Chan flick paid for by product placement. It even manages to make Wang look plain, a feat in itself. On the other hand, it also shows Daniels never was an actor. Discount proto-Adkins. But I'm just Brit-bashing.

Ah well, a few good ideas, the Bruce Lee scene is uninspired, the Street Fighter scene is bad, movie's lousy, nuff said.

Should have been better

Having watched the French and Japanese movies back-to-back, well, what to say. The Japanese film is more faithful, the French more fun.

Suzuki is an up-and-coming actor over there, deservedly so. Also a perfect Ryo: handsome, a natural in actions scenes, and obviously the correct ethnical background.
Morita is a good actress, generally, but fails to fill her character's shoes. More of a casting failure, I guess; Kaori is supposed to be an epitome of tomboyish charm, and well, that's really not easy to pull off.


This movie leans more into the serious, gravitas side of City Hunter. Which is a risky proposition. No giant hammer (sort of), no slow-flying crows.
Also, there's a fun cultural clash, where the French movie is more overtly sexual in a, well, sexual way, whereas the Japanese 'mokkori' (think Wayne World's 'schwing') is a lot tamer in many ways. And again, plays to the deeper, tragic part of the character. In its limited fashion.


The script is straight-up thriller, and nobody does cool OP MC quite like the Japanese. Think Snipes' Blade, but palette-switched. It does help the rather anemic plot.

The final product is not bad by any means, but I did prefer the French cretinous romp.

More respectful than accurate, surprisingly good

Although adapted from a Japanese manga, this is a French movie. Because City Hunter had such a tremendous success there way back when, that they made a movie. And changed the character's name. But to something American-sounding. Not French. Because. Just because. Don't ask. Still, it takes place in France, probably Paris. Because budget, obviously.

They did change the characters a little. Manga Saeba is a bit like Spiderman, he hides his pathos under a carefree appearance. It's comic/manga, it's not that deep, but still. Movie Larson is more of a moron. With a twist. They kept the overtly sexual humour, same as the manga; the opening scene is a good example. By the way, although played for comedy, there's a healthy amount of nudity is this, enough to warrant an R rating in the States, I would say. Totes swell in Europe.

Neither Lacheau nor Fontan look like their alter egos. They're both competent albeit average actors, but make a point to play their characters very straight, which does work. They're both straight men to the script's clowning.

Said clowning is on par with the manga: gags are predictable, often puerile, but still funny if you're into this, which I'll admit I am. It borrows from Jerry Lewis, ZAZ, among others. There's a definite skew in the humour, though; one could argue to a French touch, but definitely cultural drift. Eg the shrink or hostage scenes. A few (probably) very specific references went over my head, though.

I will also credit both actors for their laudable efforts in the action scenes. It's rather obvious neither come from a martial background, but some clever editing and a lot of personal effort are enough yield some pretty good fights. The final showdown is actually rather impressive.

Pet peeve: no trigger discipline. Then again, they're French, so, more of a food culture.


Nothing woke. Homosexual romance is played for fun, as the worst thing that can happen to Saeba. No girlboss. It's true to the manga.


All in all, this is very niche, probably a boring 20% for most people, but if you're into self-aware stupidity, go for it.

Season one is bait. Season two is hardcore agenda

We enjoyed the first season and looked forward to the second. This is the first time I recognized the liberal agenda bait-and-switch that is so common in TV. The first season was just as good as any adaptation of Montgomery's novels. The second season went off script. Anne was immersed in what was portrayed as wonderful sub-culture, a secret society of be-what-you-want-to-be people. This is probably the most agenda-driven TV programming I've ever seen. It's utterly disgusting! Keep the kids away from this one.

I concur

If there's a record for the most catch phrases in a movie, this is the hands-down winner. If you disagree, Ni upon you! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

Nothing woke. This is a great parody on Star Trek that still hold up pretty well. The VFX still mostly look good, the acting is good the jokes are funny. It's even better if you are familiar with the Star Trek shows. The writing is decent if a little corny at times. I'm probably rating this a little high but this is one I saw when it came out and still watch it on a regular basis.

Lazy Writing At Its Finest. BORING AF.

Jeez, where to begin? Ok, other than the forced DEI here in there for all the extras, it's not really woke, it's just a bad movie, a very bad movie. You can tell that the actors tried their best with what they had to work with, but other than Victor (the dad), no one is likeable, not even Jackie Chan himself. The dialogue is boring, the story is lazy, the villains are absolutely meh, even the soundtrack is weird and it tries so hard to scream "retro" but fails.

Remember how the villains were actually threatening and intimidating on the previous movies? Remember Johnny and all the Cobra Kai guys?, Kreese?, Chozen?, Sato? TERRY fucking SILVER? They would kill you, destroy a village, ruin your image, or at least make your life so miserable in so many ways! Thus leading the main character to find help and ultimately a solution to the problem! That's what Karate Kid is been all about, but not this movie, oh, no!

If you are expecting an exciting climactic tournament with lots of rivalries, taunts, and lots of tension building and a thrilling fight at the end, NOPE, not even that. Oh, you were expecting amazing training scenes with lots of cool ideas and stunts? NOPE, not that either. It will NEVER make you feel like the fight is even necessary, it will never make you feel invested at all.

Honestly, the only enjoyable moments are when the story focus on Victor, who is strangely super likeable for some reason, but that's only a little bit of the movie. Now that I think about it, his scenes are the only part of the movie that actually feel like Karate Kid, isn't that sad?

If you are a fan, DON'T. Seriously, don't.