Gorgeous

Gorgeous
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Movie Review: "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
Summary: 5 Stars

Not that all this matters. There is the mandatory kung fu fighting permeated with comedy here, but the actual plot boils down to something new for Jackie. It's not a action story, comedy story, or a martial arts story. No, what GORGEOUS is "about" is...... a love story. Jackie is Chan, a rich business dude who always been a bachelor and has alot of prospects for what attractive women he should go out with. Through a series of weird events, Taiwanese girl Bu (Taiwanese babe Shu Qi) is in Hong Kong, and is eager to win Chan's heart.

That's the love-oriented plot. The action/comedy-oriented sub-plot involves one of Chan's business rivals (and childhood best buddy) plotting to defeat him, humiliating him in hopes of gaining dominance over him in their two corporations.

His plan held echoes to RETURN OF THE DRAGON for me. He calls in Alan (Jackie's friend and fellow stuntman Brad James Allan), an undefeated lightweight kickboxing champ to defeat Chan.

That's what powers this movie. It's interesting to see Jackie with a romantic interest in a kung fu comedy. He's had love interests before, like in his his POLICE STORY films, where his girlfriend May was played by Maggie Cheung, whose very attractive, and in SHANGHAI NOON it was Lucu Liu, who is also quite lovely, and RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, it was yet another fine lady, Francoise Yip. But those were never the prime focus of his films. They were all action comedies with a handful of romance to them. GORGEOUS is just the opposite:it's a romantic comedy with a hepling of action (though there's still plenty of it to please Jackie's legions of fans.)

I really liked the choice of Shu Qi as Bu, Jackie's love interest. Shu Qi is very easy to see Jackie hooking up with her, and even though I never heard speaking English until THE TRANSPORTER, she still makes you truly believe that she loves Jackie and wants to be free from her family to have her own romatic life.

I also really liked Brad Allan in this movie, particularly in the two epic martial arts battles he has with Jackie. Allan displays here that he is every bit the martial artist Jackie is, and he may actually go down in history as the first of Jackie's on screen adversaries to ever defeat him (in the first match, mind you. You'll have have to see for yourslef if Jackie wins their second fight.) It's also nice that his character is not really a bad guy, he's just an opponent who fights for the fun of it. There's never any attempt by either of them to kill each other, and their two fights a very well staged. In fact, it may not be possible for Jackie or Allan to film betters fights in their films.

GORGEOUS is not like RUSH HOUR or SHANGHAI NOON, where the life a kidnapped girl is at stake, or like POLICE STORY, where he's framed for murder. It's just meant to be a family friendly romantic action-comedy, and that's exactly what it is. There is never a single gun pulled out in this movie, Jackie and Shu Qi make a great couple, and Brad Allan is an opponent who always fights fair. Watch it with the whole family as soon as possible. You'll love all the romance, comedy, and karate battles available.I guarantee it will make you're jaw drop. The things Jackie does does in GORGEOUS with not one, but FOUR baseball bats would make Babe Ruth's jaw drop.

Summary of Gorgeous