City Hunter
Ryo Saeba is a crack sharpshooter, expert martial artist, and skilled detective feared and respected throughout the Tokyo underworld. He’s also a horny little dork who loses it at even the slightest glimpse of cleavage. Adapted from Tsukasa Hojo’s long-running manga, City Hunter is the perfect example of film that’s juvenile, ridiculous, and over-the-top — which is sometimes its greatest strength, but ultimately, its greatest weakness. To be sure, there are some hilarious scenes and inventive action, and Ryohei Suzuki gives it his all as the perv-y Saeba. (The scene where he cosplays as a cowboy with a crotch horse — yes, I said what I said — is pretty hilarious.) In the end, however, City Hunter is just too over-the-top and uneven for its own good, with a rather perfunctory plot that tries to pull on the ol’ heartstrings when it’d probably be better served leaning into comedy antics.