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In between the Hollywood productionsRush HourandShanghai Noon, Hong Kong's most popular export, Jackie Chan, returned home to indulge his romantic side in this modern fairy tale. He plays a modern Prince Charming, a big business mogul and notoriously eligible big-city bachelor to dreamy teenager Shu Qi, a girl from a Taiwan fishing village. When a heartbreaking message in a bottle washes ashore, she traces it back to Hong Kong, where she meets Jackie in the midst of a mid-ocean brawl on a luxury yacht. Hong Kong heartthrob Tony Leung has a grand time spoofing his image, playing a gay fashion photographer who "adopts" Shu Qi and helps her woo her handsome dream lover. It's a pleasant change to see 40-plus Jackie discard his usual goofy lovesick fool to play a suave swinger, but next to giggly teen Shu Qi, who proves to be a spunky and winning actress, he seems a little too mature. There are still plenty of opportunities to see Jackie in acrobatic action with a subplot involving a boyhood friend turned shady business rival, but at heart it's a sweet, silly little love song full of unabashed romantic imagery, elegant art design, snazzy fashions, and a gooey happy ending. Jackie doesn't provide his own voice in the English dubbed edition, which makes a minor dent in his charm but does little to affect the film as a whole.--Sean Axmaker
A great action packed romantic movie,Jackie Chan style!!! "Gorgeous" delivers!!! What a great little gem of a film,I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan.and this film is quite a rare feat,A Jackie Chan romance film,but of course it has plenty of that trademark Chan action and humor,but it has lots of heart too,quite rare for an action film,but it works quite well here!!!Contains BOTH Widescreen and Full Frame versions of the film,as well as the Original Cantonese and English dubbed soundtracks,as well as a cool half-hour "making-of" Documentary,so everyone will be happy!!! One of his great Hong Kong films,that was made after "Rush Hour" by the way,and it's just as good!!! "Gorgeous" delivers!!! Long live Jackie Chan!!! Five stars!!! A+
Decent Jackie movie So I was pretty impressed with Gorgeous until the end came around. I enjoyed the non violence theme and could definitely get with the humor that I was being given. Odd, but still funny and enjoyable. Seeing Jackie in a non comedic role was very interesting. You won't find that very often. The first fight Jackie has with Brad Allen is certainly gorgeous but the finale is just pure crapola. I really wish they wouldn't have turned to the comedy and made Jackie into the stupid character he always plays. Shu Qi does a very good job in trying to make herself Jackie's love interest. Fun movie, could have been way better though.
I was really looking forward to the Jackie commentary and while it was very informative, it was just an interview and he wasn't actually watching the movie with us, at least it seemed that way. The making of also gives you an more of an inside view of the film. You can tell that the cast and crew had one heck of a good time making this movie.fairly pretty maybe Gorgeous is a lot different than most of Jackie Chan's films. In this movie, a love story is the focus, and it results in less action scenes than most of Jackie Chan's movies. Fortunately, there are 2 fight scenes in this movie that still make Gorgeous worth getting.
The first hour of the film is slow, developing the love story, and only has 2 small action scenes involving goons against the Jackie Chan character, "C.H. Chan". After an hour, the story and action begins to pick up, with the first of two fights involving Chan against a small, white kickboxer from overseas, who is very quick and skilled. The last fight in the movie is truly spectacular, again with Chan against his short opponent. The whole scene lasts almost 10 minutes.
Besides Chan and his kickboxing opponent, most of the characters in Gorgeous aren't very entertaining, at least the English dubbing may make it seem that way cause it is bad. The movie doesn't even have Jackie Chan's English dubbed voice, which he usually does for his movies.The whole love story thing just didn't work for me - the girl seemed more like a 17 year old spoiled brat, while C.H. Chan had to be in his mid 30's at least.
Gorgeous may not appeal to the avergae Jackie Chan fan except for the final 30 minutes of the movie. The fights are awesome, and again some of the best on screen, but the rest of the movie was just too boring and cheesy.
