Claudio Carvalho In Melbourne, the Chinese Chef Jackie (Jackie Chan) has a successful show on television. The drug lord Giancarlo (Richard Norton) and his gang are dealing cocaine with The Demons gang, but they fight against each other. During the shooting, the snoopy reporter Diana (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick) and her partner are accidentally exposed and they flee with a VHS tape with the footage of the negotiation. On the street, she stumbles with Jackie and he helps her fighting against the gangsters. When they are escaping in his car, her tape accidentally mixes with other videotapes that Jackie has in a box on the backseat of his car. Jackie goes to his apartment and meets his girlfriend Miki (Miki Lee) while his nephews "borrow" the tape to watch. Meanwhile Giancarlo's gangsters are looking for the tape and abduct Miki. Jackie's friend Romeo (Vince Poletto), who is a police detective, chases the gangsters with other policemen while Jackie teams up with Diana and his friend Lakisha (Karen McLymont) to release Miki from Giancarlo. "Yat goh ho yan", a.k.a. "Mr. Nice Guy", is a highly entertaining film with Jackie Chan in the lead role. The screenplay is the perfect combination of action and humor, with magnificent choreography. The final sequence with the huge mining vehicle is hilarious. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Mr. Nice Guy - Bom de Briga" ("Mr. Nice Guy – Good in Fight")

Python Hyena Mr. Nice Guy (1997): Dir: Samu Hung / Cast: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Karen McLymont, Miki Lee, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick: Standard Jackie Chan flick about behaviour when met with conflict. The plot regards a video tape that reveals drug lords in action and how it falls into the wrong hands and eventually Chan's apartment. Chan spends the remainder of the film beating up bad guys and rescuing three women who cannot act. Basically ninety minutes of stunts and action with interesting locations. Directing by Samu Hung is fine but Chan isn't doing anything new. He is amusing in his personality but from a story standpoint he basically kicks the crap out of a lot of less than talented people. The dreadful supporting cast includes Richard Norton, Miki Lee, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, and Karen McLymont and none of them will likely find work in this field any time soon after being part of this hideous mess. Chan films are pretty much structured the same way and exist for the same reason. We are given an ongoing parade of slapstick violence where any evidence of a plot becomes pointless. He is in great shape and performs impressive stunts but a film needs more than stunts and this one is lacking a key element called plot. The message is suppose to regard anger but the stunts are its true purpose. Viewers should take their anger out on this film and toss it in the nearest dumpster. Score: 3 / 10

ebiros2 Jackie Chan plays quintessential fall guy for a woman in distress. He nevertheless, braves his way to save his girl, and saves two others risking his life.Jackie (Jackie Chan) is a cooking show host. One day he runs into Diana, a woman who's running from gangs to deliver VHS tape containing incriminating evidence. He saves her for the time being, but the thugs are still after her. They show up at her apartment, but the tape has been swapped in Jackie's car. Now everyone is after Jackie to recover the tape. The thugs show up at Jackie's charity food show. It's now a chase in the mall, and in the streets of Melbourne between Jackie, and the thugs. Diane sneaks into Jackie's apartment looking for the tape. But the thugs show up too, and now they have to balance across the roof to make the getaway. The thugs bombs Jackie's apartment, and now he has to stay with his friend Lakisha. Thugs who came looking for the tape at Lakisha's place takes Miki and tells Jackie to get the tape ready for exchange. There're lot of holes in this plot. Like how did the thugs find out where Lakisha lives, or even if you get the tape back, how do you know that a copy hasn't been made ? So this has to be taken as Jackie Chan entertainment, and not get too serious about the plot. This one though somehow didn't look like Jackie Chan movie. Maybe because there aren't enough twists and turn in the story. Maybe because there're only three Asians in the entire movie including Sammo. This and "Who am I ?" that was made around the same time has this feel to it. Maybe it was the right timing for him to to do Rush Hour and break into Hollywood again. He seems to be running out of space to do new things in this movie.

mstomaso Jackie Chan plays a famous TV chef ("Jackie"). One day on his way to dinner at his assistant's (Karen McLymont) house, Jackie runs into a female TV reporter (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick) who is running away from two ruthless gangs who want to take from her a video tape of a murder they have committed. Jackie defends her and becomes a target. Once one of the gangs kidnaps Jackie's girlfriend (Miki Lee), the standard Chan formula kicks in and ... no more Mr. Nice Guy.Chan fans know what to expect out of Samo Hung-directed Jackie Chan films - simple but sympathetic heroes, very unpleasant antagonists, a standard martial arts plot with some new twists and a great deal of amazing action sequences featuring Chan's incredible physical talent. Mr. Nice Guy delivers nicely on this formula and Hung even throws in a very amusing directoral cameo. Filmed in Los Angeles and Australia (in order to allow Chan to do his own stunts), Mr Nice Guy makes great use of setting - Chan's best stunts and some of the wildest action sequences take place on construction sets in Melbourne. Some of the acting is a little below par, but Chan, Lee, Fitzpatrick and Norton contribute quite a lot to the film.Recommended for Chan fans, Martial Arts fans - also a good introduction to Jackie Chan for those who are not familiar.