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.

Charming, romantic, fun

Gorgeous is a modern fairy-tale that blends traditional romance-comedy themes with Jackie Chan's trademark sense of action. A teenage country girl finds a romantic message in a bottle and travels to Hong Kong to find its sender. Though that doesn't exactly work out like planned, she does meet Chan's character, a millionarie industrialist. As the two get to know each other, a business rival plots to humiliate Chan by pitting him against an American fighter.

This love story works quite well, thanks to the strengths of its leads. Shu Qi's cuteness, spunky personality and exaggerated facial expressions set the movie's tone, while it's nice to see the always-loveable Jackie Chan play a different role (though really, Jackie Chan plays Jackie Chan in all the movies he does). It's not a revolutionary plot, and a few scenes could have been better executed (the obligatory 'break-up' before the happy ending is rather weak), but on the whole the mushy side of me ate it up. Jackie Chan does romance quite well.

There are also some fight sequences sprinkled here and there; two are classic Jackie Chan where he uses the environment against his opponents, and the other two are showcase-quality fights against Bradley James Allan, a member of Jackie's own stunt team. These fights, well-executed that they are, feel tacked-on to the movie. It's like someone was afraid fans wouldn't respond well to a Jackie Chan movie without fights, and so contrived a few for the heck of it. In keeping with the movie's lighthearted tone, the bad guys arent really evil, and the fights are either cartoonish or done in a manner where the combatants show respect to each other. It's a nice variation.

Gorgeous really won me over. The dvd loses a star for not including the uncut version, though it includes a Jackie Chan commentary that the Hong Kong version doesn't. Great date movie that has something for guys and girls, and worth seeing for anyone curious about a 'Jackie Chan romance'.