This Nice Guy is About to Punch Your Face In.
A 1997 Hong Kong-Australian film directed by Sammo Hung that has a TV Chef (Jackie Chan) accidentally getting involved with a reporter (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick) during the filming of a drug bust going wrong and is now being hunted down by the gangs involved.
The movie also stars Richard Norton, Barry Otto, Emil Chau, and Joyce Godenzi.
It was released by Golden Harvest on January 31, 1997.
Tropes for the film:
- All Love Is Unrequited: Judging by her questions with him at the airport, it is implied that Lakeisha has feelings for Jackie but he doesn't see her anything more than her friend as well as because he is in relationship with Miki.
- Artistic License – Geography: The movie features a chase sequence through Melbourne, Australia, that features about two dozen sharp turns, two or three of which actually do exist in real life.
- Artistic License – Gun Safety: Rule of Funny is in play when Diana tells him his gun is empty, she checks by poking through the magazine compartment, and Jackie inspects the gun and looks through the barrel while his index finger is on the trigger. Cue the gun discharging with a single bullet left.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Jackie stops playing nice once Miki is kidnapped. In the climax, he uses all his pent up anger to destroy Giancarlo's mansion by driving an earth mover truck into it.
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: When the gang first finds Jackie at a live taping for his show, he gives one gangster a hot pepper, which makes him wince in pain.
- Big Bad: Giancarlo.
- Bookends: Giancarlo orders his men to bring his enemy to "the guest house" at the beginning and ending of the movie. The first time is to execute Tina, the Demon spy, and the second is for Jackie, Miki and Lakeisha.
- Buried Alive: The fate of the people brought to Giancarlo's "guest house".
- Butt-Monkey: All Miki wants to do is to spend time with her boyfriend in a foreign country but nothing comes good happens to her. While she gets embarrassed during Jackie's cooking show is played for laughs, the rest not so much as her life keeps getting threaten.
- Car Meets House: The climax has Jackie, finally fed up with everything, drive a vehicle through the villain's house. Given that the house was made largely of glass and the vehicle in question was an enormous earth mover, the "car" won the fight.
- Chainsaw Good: Subverted when a Mook swings a big circular grinder at Jackie, but it comes unplugged the instant the thug tries to chase him with it.
- Chef of Iron: The film stars Jackie as a TV chef, who also kicks a lot of ass.
- Conveyor Belt o' Doom: During the construction site fight, Jackie is knocked down on a piece of plywood sliding towards a circular saw, which he rolls out of the way of at the last second, then does a sideways roll over while it's still spinning.
- The Cameo
- Like in Rumble in the Bronx, another Jackie Chan movie, Hong Kong singer, Emil Chau, plays an ice-cream man who reveals Jackie's location to the mobsters, thinking they are playing a game of hide-and-seek.
- Director Sammo Hung plays an unnamed cyclist who got punched by a gangster for being too nosy. He later gets back at the gangster while he is taken by the authorities.
- Destroy the Product Placement: At one point in the movie, a Pepsi truck avoids being involved in a massive traffic accident, but at the cost of many Pepsi cans, which would get destroyed on the road.
- Dynamic Entry: Jackie drives a big earth mover truck into the Big Bad's house at the end, effectively bringing the whole building down.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The female Demon gang member stops one of the other members from throwing a grenade at Jackie and the Mafia members during the taping of the former's cooking show as there are too many innocents present. And later on, she stops one of the other Demon members from having his way with Miki, saying she'll castrate him if he touches her again.
- The Foreign Subtitle: Known as Mister Cool
in France. For real. - Gangbangers: A posse of gang bangers called the "Demons" run afoul of Jackie and the Mafia, getting their asses kicked by the first, and then ground up by the latter over a dispute of some stolen merchandise.
- I Was Never Here: The police decides to ignore that Jackie destroyed the mobsters' base and treats it as a result of gang fight.
- Ms. Fanservice: Diana spends an entire scene in her apartment wearing only her lingerie.
- Neat Freak: Giancarlo is very particular in making sure his place is spotless. He even has the other mobsters remove their shoes and wear another layer of socks over theirs.
- Put on a Bus:
- Unlike the other women, Diana is not involved in the climax as she is brought to the hospital after getting injured. Her last scene is telling Romeo the whereabouts of Jackie and the other two women.
- Similarly, Baggio disappears for the rest of the film after he is punched several times by the gangsters, with his last line is to call the ambulance.
- The surviving female Demon who escapes after Giancarlo tortures them into revealing the location of his cocaine is last seen watching Giancarlo's men drive off with Jackie. She's never seen again.
- Rigged Spectacle Fight: When Giancarlo has Jackie fight him with his arms and legs held back by ropes.
- Safety in Muggles: When Jackie is confronted by Giancarlo's gang members, members from the other gang were initially planning to attack, but decide not to because there were too many innocent people there.
- Title Drop: Diana calls Jackie a Nice Guy for saving her life.
- Uncertain Doom: Diana's cameraman, Richard, is last seen unconscious at Diana's apartment after being forced to sell her out. Considering he is shot earlier, it is unlikely he will survive.
- Unfortunate Item Swap: What puts the plot in motion is Jackie accidentally mixes up the tape for his cooking show with Diana's tape of a clandestine gang meeting, and the gang hunts him down to get the latter back.
- Would Hit a Girl: The gangsters have no qualm in hitting women and all the female casts are beaten in some way.
