This cool Jackie Chan movie was filmed in Melbourne and is practically everything that you want in a Jackie Chan movie: it has heaps of fights and is very funny. The acting is pretty poor, but we don't watch these movies for the acting, we watch them to see Jackie Chan do his stuff, and in this movie he does. In fact this movie is probably the typical Jackie Chan movie as the plot seems to vanish during the movie leaving it open for a grand finale.The funny thing about this movie is that I knew exactly where it was filmed - Melbourne. It is so funny watching Jackie run around the Melbourne Central shopping centre, and knowing that one does not start of the ground floor of the Old Shot Tower, run down six elevators, and land up on the first floor of the old Shot Tower. It really does not work. And then there is the fight scene down Swanson Street, where he seems to be running down Swanson Street in one direction, and it turns out that he is going in the opposite direction (I sort of worked it out by looking at the shops along the side). In the end, we are not looking for continuity in this film, we are just looking for the action.When it comes to action though, this film does deliver. In fact, what we end up with is a movie that is constantly on the go. It goes so fast that we are almost left breathless halfway through, waiting for the movie to slow down for a little while so that we can catch our breath before being plunged into it again. In fact, I think that this is the flaw in this movie (other than the bad acting) that it simply goes so fast that we are almost left behind. Still, it is a great movie, filmed in Australia, and I really hope Jackie comes back here to continue his career.

I know films like this should be taken with a pinch of salt, people will always say things like "it's just a bit off fun" or "it's not to be taken seriously". Normally, I would go along with these opinions but I'm afraid I'm just not able to with 'Mr. Nice Guy'. The acting in this film is so bad, it is almost funny. The problem is that the acting is so awkward, it makes watching it so awkward. There are moment where you would like to rise from your seat, enter the TV and do it for them. The action and FX are almost annoying: everything seems to be in slow motion, which is silly because it allows the viewer more time to see windows breaking before they are touched, or fireworks being set off for explosions. I'm sorry, I'm not usually such a cynic but having watched many bad films in my time- I think it is safe to say this is the worst. If you like Chan, then keep to the Rush Hours.

I hope IMDb doesn't mind if I disagree with their Amazon review of Mr. Nice Guy and the critic's factual errors. Considering all of the gangsters are Australian, and only one is of Italian heritage, we're not dealing with a gang of "stereotypical Italians." Nor do I think the actors mugging and clowning around here qualify as a "cast...in a coma." As for the reviewer's nervous insistence that "the plot is stupid, stupid, stupid," heaven help her when she gets to Who Am I? and Operation Condor. I thought the main switcheroo plot device was fine, and the gang war storyline was inoffensive. If anything is stupid (and to a degree that doesn't require repeating the word) it's the usual juvenile, cartoonlike acting, drama, humor, and pacing found in all of the foreign Chan films I've seen. Nothing to get upset about, just some silliness to laugh at.Some of the humor is welcome, too, particularly the goofy, cheery ice cream man (who meets a hilarious fate) and Sammo Hung himself as a poor, abused cyclist who finally gets in his licks. When this film came to theaters in 1998, a local film critic also suggested that the casting of Richard Norton as the wealthy, black-clad villain was a jab at Chan's acquaintance, Hollywood star (and Norton look-alike) Steven Seagal.And just as the drawing points of most Hollywood musicals are the songs and dance instead of their weak plots, here the well-choreographed fights and other action scenes are the attraction and more than "almost compensate" for any cheese. Creatively designed and impressively performed after much practice, the fights are also easier to watch since they avoid showing graphic violence, unlike typical Hollywood gorefests.The choice of settings for the action scenes shows some real verve as well. One of my favorites was the mass biker wedding, where Chan hangs from a giant balloon decoration and bounces up and down across the lawn to escape the baddies, who are soon mobbed by the upstanding bikers! And who'd have thought you could get so much material out of staging a fight on a horse-drawn carriage rushing through a city? Even the Pepsi product placement at least gives us the great spectacle of a soda truck spilling all its cans onto the street, where the characters brawl until cola is spraying here and there.The only things that hinder the action scenes are the occasional use of jerky slow-motion and a finale made dull by being long and repetitive.Finally, I have a certain enjoyable memory related to this movie, one that may sum up where the film will stand with you depending on your tastes. As a teenager, I saw Mr. Nice Guy in a theater with a rather pretentious man whose preferred film-going involves movie titles preceded by the adjective "Oscar-winning," which to him matters most. I had a fun time at the show, but afterwards the man stayed silent until he met his wife, when I overheard him grumble to her, "That was a *terrible* movie!" This memory always amuses me.

Mr. Nice Guy (aka No More Mr. Nice Guy) was the third film Jackie did in Hong Kong after the success from Rumble in the Bronx and the first film that was directed by fellow brother Sammo Hung since 1987's Dragons Forever. Jackie was happy about this reunion since they were not on good terms for several years.Jackie stars as a chef, with prestigious martial art ability, who is part of a chef troupe in Melbourne Australia with Baggio (Barny Otto) and Lakeisha (Karen McLymont). He accidentally intervenes between a fleeing reporter named Diana (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick who had a reoccurring role in NYPD Blue) who has an incriminating tape and two rival criminal organizations who are on that video. She then accidentally switches tapes with one of his cooking shows in Jackie's car when they were fleeing the mob. Some well-documented goofs with the tape are: the tape is the ubiquitous VHS standard (which a camera person would not use) and when the tape is shown it displays the same omnipresent footage that the film had (including the multi-angle cuts and close-ups.) The two criminal organizations include a bad acting, Rumble in the Bronx rip-of, gang of thugs who do not resemble criminals named the Demons and an Australian mob led by the cigar munching, overacting, coke-dealing, neat freak, tie slapping Giancarlo (Richard Norton) who happens to be a proficient martial artist too. There is animosity between the two groups because the Demons stole cocaine from the mob. The campyness of the criminals worked for me in Rumble in the Bronx but they annoyed me in this film, probably because of the overabundance of drama. Though I do enjoy when they (though mostly Jackie Chan's stunt team) get beat up by Jackie. For fun I try to spot Jackie's stunt team during the fight scenes. It is harder to find them in this film (good editing) than in Armour of God's Amazon women fighting scene.Jackie's fiancé Miki (Miki Lee a Taiwanese singer) arrives to stay with Jackie for awhile. She is a bit jealous of his friendship with Lakeisha and she is eventually held hostage by both the Demons. They want the tape and he wants her. They broker a deal to meet at the Golden Garden construction site for the exchange after the first attempted barter went wrong because of stupid cops. However, the mob will be there too. This leads up to the awesome penultimate fight scene.There is more plot to this film but it only gets in the way of the film's good points: the stunts and fight scenes. While, I feel Sammo Hung's directing skills have regressed a bit such as the overuse of slow motion – for everything, Sammo still directs Jackie quite well in this reunion. The action sequences are set up marvelously especially the Golden Garden sequence. There is a maze of doors where Jackie almost falls out hanging by a door knob (another influence by the silent greats such as Lloyd and Keaton that Jackie loves) and another finely choreographed scene where he fights with everything from a wooden grate, pipe, water hose, and wheel barrow. Fight scenes such as this and the ending stunt sequence (involving a large construction vehicle) are must watches for any action fan.Much of the acting was bad, there were unnecessary dramatic devices, Norton's fighting skills were not as used effectively as when he worked with Jackie in City Hunter, and it had many similarities with Rumble in the Bronx. However, there is enough comedy and action scenes to make this a fun film to watch (though it does seem to lose a bit of luster after multiple watches and I have not seen the longer running Hong Kong version of this film which has about 7 to 8 minutes of additional footage.) There is also a good cameo appearance with the colorful Sammo Hung as a bicyclist too and the painful "outtakes" at the end of the film. Now is that enough to enjoy a film – of course. Note: this was the first of Chan's films to be shot almost entirely in English and during the making of it Jackie got to put his prints at Mann's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.