Georgeous 1999

      A Taiwanese girl named Bu has just received a marriage proposal.  While pondering the proposal, she finds a message in a bottle.  The message inspires her go to Hong Kong to meet Albert, he is the man who wrote the message.  She learns that Albert is gay.  A successful playboy businessman CN and Howie have been rivals in love and business since school days.  Howie finds out that CN is dating his girl and also trying to take over his company.  Howie tells his guys to teach CN a lesson.  Bu happens to be there and saves CN but she decides to fake her identity and use a scheme to make him fall in love with her.  In the meantime, Howie wants to teach CN a humiliating lesson.  He hires a highly trained foreign fighter to beat him.

     There are some very well choreographed martial arts scenes with Jackie Chan.  The romance part of the movie is not up to par with the martial arts.  Qi She is pleasant but Tony Leung has more screen time.  Some lame and corny sections but also some very laughable moments.  2* (This movie is OK) 

Special Note:  Most of CN Chan's traits are the real-life traits of Jackie Chan, including his training routines and choice of clothing.  Chan said of his character CN, that he was "sixty to seventy percent Jackie Chan".  This film was originally conceived purely as a love story with Jackie Chan as the producer but not as one of the cast.  In order to secure actress Qi She, the script was re-written and a role for Jackie was created.  This soon developed into a starring role and elements of action were brought in.  Director Vincent Kok wanted to use Jackie's office as the set for CN's apartment but this proved to be impractical.  This part of the office is on the third floor.  Instead, many props from Jackie's office were used including his own training dummy.  

121 min, Action directed by Vincent Kok and written by Jackie Chan, Ivy Ho, Vincent Kok and You Fai Lo with Qi She, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Emil Chau, Richie Jen, Ken Lo, Sung-Young Chen, Elaine Jin, Bradley James Allen, Tats Lau, Vincent Kok, Sandra Dwan Yue Ng, Sam Lee, Kar-Ying Law.

Note:  Imdb 6.1* out of 10* with 11,050 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 56% with 10,000+ audience scores, Letterboxed 2.9* out of 5*, Roger Ebert 2*, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 271 reviews, Best Buy 4* out of 5*.