Jackie Chan City Hunter English Dub [cracked] Review

When City Hunter was released internationally in the mid-90s, a dub was produced in Hong Kong. This is the version that most Millennials remember from late-night cable TV or bootleg VHS tapes.

Unlike the more reverent dubs of Jackie’s earlier Police Story films, the City Hunter English dub leans heavily into the film’s cartoonish energy. The voice actors do not attempt to replicate Chan’s natural speaking voice. Instead, Ryo Saeba is given a confident, slightly smarmy "ladies’ man" cadence—think a PG-13 version of Johnny Bravo meets a 90s action hero. This works because the film itself is an outlier: it features Chan fighting street thugs on a cruise ship, dodging henchmen in a video game arcade, and famously, transforming into for a fight scene. jackie chan city hunter english dub