The Accidental Spy (traditional Chinese: 特務迷城) is a 2001 Hong Kong martial arts-action film, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Teddy Chan.Film was taken in Istanbul. Although it is a Hong Kong film, much of the dialogue is in English language, particularly during communications between the Chinese characters and the Korean and Turkish characters.
Despite having a fairly serious and - in some parts—a dark plot, it still features some humour, as...
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The Accidental Spy (traditional Chinese: 特務迷城) is a 2001 Hong Kong martial arts-action film, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Teddy Chan.Film was taken in Istanbul. Although it is a Hong Kong film, much of the dialogue is in English language, particularly during communications between the Chinese characters and the Korean and Turkish characters.
Despite having a fairly serious and - in some parts—a dark plot, it still features some humour, as is typical of Chan's movies.
The opening of film shows a news reporter covering a story in Turkey where many people have mysteriously died, seemingly from pneumonia. The focus then moves to Hong Kong where Buck Yuen (Chan) 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...
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