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The Accidental Spy

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At a Hong Kong shopping center, Buck Yuen's (Jackie Chan's) intuition warns him. He saves a robbery's loot and gets on television, ends up in Istanbul via South Korea, and accidentally becomes a spy. Fortunately, he knows Kung Fu.

Year

2001

Duration

1h 27m

IMDb

5.8

Trailer

Cast

Teddy Chan

Director

Jackie Chan

Buck Yuen

MK

Min Kim

Carmen Wong

Eric Tsang

Many Liu

Vivian Hsu

Yong

Hsing-Kuo Wu

Lee Sang-Zen

Murat Yilmaz

Celik

Alfred Cheung

Cheung the Lawyer (Special Appearance)

Lillian Ho

Candice (Special Appearance)

Tat-Ming Cheung

Tsui

Tat-Ming Cheung

Stan (Special Appearance)

Vincent Kok

Moving Worker (Special Appearance)

Hang-Sang Poon

Rich Man (Special Appearance)

Paulyn Sun

Rich Man's Wife (Special Appearance)

Ping Ha

Cleaning Lady (Special Appearance)

Ken Chang

Cop at Mall (Special Appearance)

Vahdet Çakar

Police Officer

Glory Simon

TCN Field Reporter

AT

Ahmet T. Uygun

TCN News Crew

RK

Rakela Kunyo

TCN News Crew

RD

Rod Dean

Writer

Ivy Ho

Writer

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d@rdolOct 11, 2024

Talented star. Opaque plot. Murky dialog/translation. I will not add this film in my Jacky Chan collection. It's embarrassing. The plot is impossibly murky. The dialog is heavy and clumsy. Characters come and go, and sometimes return, but there is no reason for any of it. If you see this film you will have no idea who is who, or what is going on. (Jacky, please have an English-speaking person write your English dialog!) I suspect Jacky himself is to blame. Jacky is such a huge star, it must be difficult to reign in his enthusiasm or give him any kind of plot guidance. This looks like an old Hong Kong film. I'm a big fan, so that's not an insult, but without the momentary laptop/internet scene, this easily could have been a 1980s Jacky film repackaged for the Western market. I can't see how that is a benefit. The English translation may be at fault. I have many, many Chinese films in my collection, and this film was far below average. I'd prefer subtitles. Better yet, shoot the major dialog twice, in English and Cantonese. Jacky has done this with other films successfully. Besides, Jacky speaks English very well. The locations were SUPER! I loved the lighting in places. Some good camera angles. The credits were heavy-handed but nice. A couple interesting stunts, but often shot poorly. The American DVD was very disappointing. No extra material, at all! A terrible, old-looking photo. Again, everything points to a repackaged old film. Why make a new film like that? I have 26 Jacky Chan films. This film would certainly rank as one of his least polished, exotic locations notwithstanding. It's no wonder it was never released in US theaters. Don't get me wrong, I hate Bret Ratner, the director of Rush Hour, but his stories made sense. By comparison, "Accidental Spy" is a home movie. I cringe to see such a great star in such a shoddy film.

steeve_cameron_officOct 11, 2024

I had heard good things about this movie and was very psyched to check it out as I love Chan's easy going humour and mad fighting styles. But as I saw it I got more and more frustrated - where were the people on the cover and where were the jets and parachute people? Silly as it is with things on the cover that aren't in the film, the dubbing is utterly painful - totally out of synch - and when the story is as fragmented as is the case in the version I saw, one has to wonder if the dubbing missed out things, or if the Danish version has been cut, because the storyline is pretty much impossible to understand. Jackie has some good moves and there are a couple of very pretty gels to look at for a few moments, but that is about the qualities that are to be found in this movie. The storyline in the Danish release is impossible to understand for anyone with a normal IQ, as is the character progression, and the quality of the effects are below par for what can be expected. All in all this version is a sorely disappointing flick and not one that can be recommended, unless you are a hardcore Jackie Chan fan. 4/10

kylieslooOct 11, 2024

Terribly Boring. I almost fell asleep. If your going to rent a jacki chan movie rent rush hour. Do not see this movie!

Abi Nas❤️❤️Oct 11, 2024

I would like to tell you what this movie was about, but I quit paying attention so quick that I really don't know. Jackie Chan who plays a character named Jackie Chan, I mean come on even Tony Danza used a different last name, Finds out his real father wants to meet him. He goes to meet his father on his death bed and then is given clues to a lot of money and he finds the money and he fights a lot and I wasn't paying attention to the story, so sue me - it sucked horribly bad. I love martial arts and even like some of Chans work, but lets face it his stuff is mainly all the same in the 90's. They kept exploiting him and making dozens of these b-movies from his fame. The directing sucked here too and all that was good about this movie was a few fight scenes that were choreographed by the great Tung Wai and also a pretty cool little scene at the end that involved a high speed chase and a truck. There's way too much comedy involved as usual with Chans stuff. If you are a huge fan of Chan maybe you can tolerate it, if you like action films that are cheesy and bring nothing new to the table then you might like it, me I will never watch this garbage again - horrible movie. 1/10 stars

Franckie LyneOct 11, 2024

As a vehicle for Jackie Chan action sequences, this movie is decent. There are some clever scenes, and while some, particularly one in which a naked Jackie tries to cover himself while his enemies seem determined to keep them off, make no sense, they are amusing. Unfortunately, the story is an absolute mess. None of it makes any real sense and it's often unclear what on earth is going on. The movie just jumps from scene to scene with little thought for the sense of it all. The movie also ends, not with a typical Chan action scene, but with a highway scene that uses none of Chan's talents, is confused and lacks any sort of excitement or suspense. It is a huge misstep in a film full of small missteps.

J FloOct 11, 2024

If Jacky Chan wanted to make a commercial, he should have, but not this movie full with promotion of the companies who sponsored him. Beside that the film is to long, with an unnecessary long ride in the truck, and a stupid ending in Italy. It is not exciting, it is not funny, and it never should have been made.

iamnotmizzkOct 11, 2024

The latest Hong Kong action film by Jackie Chan has been taking a bit of a drubbing from a few outspoken, hardcore fans and critics. And, as far as I'm concerned, it is all totally unwarrented. This is the best Jackie film in recent years--perhaps even the best in a decade! Some criticize it for not having enough action or enough of Jackie's trademark fight choreography. Well, all you need is a stopwatch to see this is not true. Every few minutes brings a big action setpiece! There is much more action in this film than in "Supercop", "First Strike" or "Rush Hour". And certianly more than his foray into screwball romantic comedy, "Gorgeous". What critics are reacting to is a marked improvement in the quality of the filmmaking--which they see as getting in the way. This film has none of the drawbacks of Jackie's last all-action HK movie, "Who Am I?". In "AS", the cinematography, direction, musical score, and overall look is easily on a par with a Hollywood production. And even though the dialog is a bit under the best of Hollywood action films, "AS" contains none of the embarrasing, out-of-place comic sterotypes, horrible second-player acting, or lazy dialog-writing of "WAI?". So, the characters actually do stop to have dialog evey once in a while, the camera does slow down to establish the location from time to time, so the locations are lushly photographed--gee whiz, aren't those things supposed to happen in a good movie? Teddy Chan is the best director jackie has collaborated with (Sammo Hung and Stanley Tong run close second and third and perhaps could have done as well given the same budget as "AS"). And, by the way, we cannot expect JAckie to do the physical stunts he did in his best 80s films like "Operation Condor", "Police Story 1&2" or "Project A 1&2". There is a difference between 30 and 45---face it! Sure, the plot of "AS" is off-the-wall, implausible, and at times difficult to follow--but certainly not moreso than Hollywood action/spy hits like "Ronin" or the "Mission Impossible" films (in fact, "AS" makes much better use of biological warefare than "MI2" did). Some also criticise the film's big finale as derivative of "Speed". Well, in a way it is--except this time it was done better and makes more sense. "Speed" never seemed dangerous to me--this does. Clint Eastwood's "Sudden Impact" ripped off Jackie's "Police Story 2" by using the idea of a mad bomber using a model car rigged with explosives. It happens. IN any case, I believe "The Accidental Spy", once properly dubbed into English, could be a big hit in US theaters. Hey, no one thought "Rumble in the Bronx" would be a hit, did they? This is just an example of what high expectations people have of an artist as succesful as Jackie Chan.

MAYBY 😍🥰Oct 11, 2024

This is one of Chan's Hong Kong-movies, and it seems to lack much of the basics that makes his better movies, well, better. When it comes to the fighting scenes, they aren't that bad. They are typical Chan-fighting scenes which involves many items in special ways. They are also funny, and especially one of them lasts long. Apart from that, there are nothing good in this movie. The story is nearly non-existing. This comes as no surprise, especially when we know that the story got changed from the Chinese to the English version. I really have to warn people from watching this movie only based on the film's cover. Here's why: There's a black man on the cover. Where the heck was he in the movie? I didn't see the blonde girl on the cover in the movie either. And military airplanes? If you haven't guessed it already: There are no such planes in the movie. If the movie had been any good, I guess they wouldn't have to make a halfway fake cover like they have.