Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde From:Adam Baldwin , Steve Bastoni , Anthony Wong , Jason Chong , Karen Cliche , Colin Budds , Mti Home Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0619935405134
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: NTSC
Label: Mti Home Video
Manufacturer: Mti Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Mti Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-04-06
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Mti Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Product Description:
Any connection to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale is tenuous at best in this action-packed superhero story with dark undertones. Adam Baldwin is San Francisco surgeon Henry Jekyll, whose honeymoon in Hong Kong becomes a nightmare when a triad gang murders his wife and marks him for death. Saved by a mysterious Chinese healer who speaks in fortune cookie clichés, he becomes a kind of hero-in-training (think The Karate Kid and Mr. Miyagi) with a mystic twist: he discovers the herbal formula to release his inner brute and transforms into a demonic-looking Hyde. The colorful mix of cop show, gangster thriller, and mystic martial arts adventure ends on an anticlimactic note, as if this made-for-TV feature was the pilot for a never-launched TV series, but it's an energetic and spirited film that, for all its kooky clichés, remains oddly compelling. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews:
 Reminds me of Remo Williams, 2007-09-23
If you liked Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins (1985) you may like this movie which is along the same lines - i.e. Man from the west is trained by Kung Fu master to be a force for good. However, if I were to compare, I seem to recall liking Remo Williams a lot more for the humour. Joel Grey in that movie was hilarious as he played out all the oriental stereotypes while at the same time injecting a unique fastidiousness.
This movie's link to the original Jekyll and Hyde story is nothing more than the names of the character played by Adam Baldwin. Like Remo, it was also intended to be a pilot for a TV series, but it wasn't very promising in the execution.
The plot was rather loose and the vengeance motivation is a powerful drive that needs a powerful resolution which I do not get from this movie.
The martial arts by today's standard is rather basic.
I give it two stars cos knowing what I know now, I'd rather watch Remo Williams.
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