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All the usual feminist topes. Nasty unlikable girl-bosses. Females all in positions of power and better than men. Small females overpowering much larger men. DEI overrepresentation. I could only make it to about the 30 min mark though so the woke may get worse. The acting and dialog is terrible. The action scenes are badly shot. Its obvious the entire thing was shot on an empty stage with bad greenscreen. Everything looks so washed out and colorless, almost to the point of black and white. The VFX in general are all pretty bad.

Completely Avoid

Every white male character is portrayed as either evil, burned out, a loser or incompetent.

Every female character is portrayed as competent, heroic, moral and strong.

Every non-white character is portrayed as competent, good and capable, or a victim of evil white men.

The show literally has white English nationalists kidnap and attack a Muslim boy. It’s the OPPOSITE of what is happening on our streets and our nation in England.

It portrays the white conservative male politician as some sort of new Hitler we should all hate because he dares say we shouldn’t have mass immigration.

It portrays white ex-servicemen as evil terrorists.

In the first episode it portrays British nationalism as fascistic and evil including cartoonish, over the top representations of white right wing politics.

Conclusion: avoid this anti-white, anti-male, anti-English show in every way.

Getting long in the tooth

It's an entertaining movie, reusing the same characters, same jokes, same visuals, and basically the same plot.
But all that is getting a bit tired and cliched. It's lost its spark.

Depp, Rush and Bardem are beyond reproach, as expected of such experienced actors. Same for the supporting cast, including Sir Paul (McCartney).
Thwaites and Scodelario are decent enough; they're young actors with a rather bland script, and neither has the presence to shine through that.

Scodelario's character gets that woke point, though. Not girlboss, but insufferable know-it-all, despite getting humbled (without learning humility) throughout the movie.

The male (and thus dumb) characters work because they're caricatures, and manage to succeed despite their flaws. The female "lead" is the opposite: she's incredibly realistic (I've worked with her too many times), and manages to need rescuing despite all of her much-professed-but-never-witnessed qualities. Basically, an extension of the movie's McGuffin, allowing the plot to move on to the next scene.

Still, the movie is somewhat entertaining, mostly due to Depp's involvement, thus highlighting how incredibly stupid Disney's corpos were to antagonize him over that whole false accusation shenanigan. Him and his fans. Threw the golden goose out with the bathwater they bought on OF. Morons. Well, corpos, same thing.

Nothing really woke. This started out great with good acting and an interesting story line with good writing. As it kept going the mystery
was good enough to keep you watching. The weakest part is the main character is just soo unlikable. He's such a cowardly spineless person
it really gets frustrating. He just sits there and shakes and looks pathetic while making the dumbest choices. Then the final 30 minutes when everything gets revealed it just goes of into ridiculous implausible territory
and all falls apart.

Men, especially Nick is WAY TOO MUCH CLUMSY.
Brainrot comedy.
And the unnecessary lgbt+ flag beside the door of the jazz audition club.

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.