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First 15 minutes already tell you several things, of which: 1. Here is another Mary-Sue with stealthy capability from get-go; 2. The brother is a freak because he is "neurally divergent"; 3. The girl is stoic and level headed while that guy gets hysterical over little things. 4. Girl is the good one in the family while the father and brothers are all troublemakers. 4. The world is still unfair to females.

Enough is enough. If these "creatives" can't write people normally, then don't

Do we really need to be constantly hammered with messaging in entertainment? NO. And Ne Zha 2 has proven that.

Another one down the bin. Too bad Ridley is pretty good an actor but has chosen the wrong type of films to be in.

I first started with City Hunter in the form of manga, and that goes all the way back to the 80s. So in reading one review that says it is almost 30 years old, made me chuckle.

Now for the film.

Honestly, I much prefer the last French movie among all the adaptations. That movie catches the hilarity of City Hunter almost perfectly.

This one is a more faithful adaptation but something still feels off. I think with the Netflix budget this could have been a much better production. The casting is mostly on point but the materials need some contemporary updates. This movie catches the skill and abilities of Ryo perfectly though. Kaori needs to be more development.

I question the choice of picking the first chapters of the manga series for this movie though. There are better and more contemporary storylines in later chapters.

Good try but not perfect.

Just one complain from a very long time fan: WHY are the actresses of Nogami Saeko never up to par with the manga? She was always the most beautiful, sexiest and smartest woman in all the female lineups. But all the adaptations never do her justice.

I never read the books, but I can already tell the amount of changes made to it to fit the taste of the western audience. I will say this though, the story is intriguing and the script well-adapted.

However, I have issues with this adaptation, mainly what Hollywood unnecessarily dictates these days:-

-1 star for the almost total replacement of the Chinese elements.

-1 star for the insistence of replacing all Chinese characters and replacing them with DEI people.

-1 star for putting an Indian and a Chinese as a couple; in real life that is highly improbable.

-1 star for not using better looking female lead.