The Accidental Spy
Director: Teddy Chan
Genre: Martial arts, Thriller, Action, Action/Adventure, Comedy, World cinema, Adventure, Action Thrillers, Comedy Thriller, Chinese Movies
Year: 2001
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese, English Language, Korean Language, Standard Cantonese, Standard Mandarin, Turkish Language, French Language
Starring: Vivian Hsu, Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang, Alfred Cheung, Min-jeong Kim, Anthony Rene Jones, Wu Hsing-kuo, Glory Simon, Cheung Tat-Ming, Murat Yılmaz, Lillian Ho
The Accidental Spy is a 2001 Hong Kong martial arts action film, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Teddy Chan. Filming took place in Istanbul.
Although it is a Hong Kong film, much of the dialogue is in English, particularly during communications between the Chinese characters and the Korean and Turkish characters. Despite having a fairly serious and dark plot in some parts, it still features some humour, as is typical of Chan's films.
A news reporter covers a story in Turkey where many people have mysteriously died, seemingly from pneumonia. In Hong Kong, Buck Yuen works as an exercise equipment salesman. After an unsuccessful day at work, he heads out through the shopping mall and intuitively knows that a robbery is about to take place. Buck thwarts the robbers plans, relieving them of the money they have stolen and returning it to the police. Later, a stranger approaches Buck, eager to speak to the hero who foiled the robbery. The stranger goes by the name of Manny Liu and he tells Buck that he is rounding up several men of Buck's age and description, one of whom could be the son of a wealthy Korean man.
As a child, Buck had been an orphan, but he has vague dreams seemingly
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