La vengeance du tigre blanc

This a very scary movie. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. It also has great story line. If you do not get scared off this movie then no movie will scary you. Doctor Jekyll's wife his murdered. He wants revenge. He find a chains drug that bring out his inner evil. The is a master masterpiece in terror and revenge. A great horror. Best one one of the best horror books ever. This a very scary movie. The 1912 version is better. The 1920 version is better. The 1932 version is also better. So is the 1941 version. But still this is a great movie. This movie is a must see. Adam Baldwin is a great actor. Steve B.a.s.t.o.n.i

This film has as much to do with the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, of the same name, as the Pope has to do with "break dancing." I don't know where the producers scraped up the chutzpah to give it that title, but they have turned the term shameless into an Olympic event.

Those flaws aside, it's not bad. No, it's not GONE WITH THE WIND; but by no means is it a Pauly Shore vehicle, either. It has some good messages (i.e. Drugs bad, Mafia bad, Old people and orphans good, Chinese herbal medicine good, etc.) and a few good moments of action. If they had toned down the violence and had been honest with the title, this film could have made a pretty decent feature for adolescents. Unfortunately, of course, that's not the case. Also, the ending came up so fast and unexpected, I unintentionally laughed.

If you like your story pretty obvious, sprinkled with some so-so attempts at humor, then this is for you. Indulge, just don't tell your neighbors.

Not recommended, unless you've been burgled and that's the only movie they left...and it would be...*sigh*.

I finally saw Coppola's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2000). Really, he was the Exec. Producer, but was running through his mind when he oversaw this film? This seems to be a pilot for TV series starring the underrated Adam Baldwin. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a plastic surgeon who goes to China for a honeymoon. While checking out a hospital, he is unwittingly forced to operate on a dying Triad member. The Triad dies, and the rest of the gang wants vengeance. They kidnap Jekyll's wife, and after stealing a kidney from Jekyll allow him to be with his wife before they die. Well as expected, Jekyll lives and is mentored by a doctor who introduces him to ancient Chinese herbs- especially those that can kill. Jekyll changes his name to Hyde, and goes on a vengeance spree against members of the Triad using Karate, Kung Fu and the herbs. I'm not making this up! Plot twist is that Henry Jekyll is the chosen White Tiger where it is written he is to protect the good Chinese people..... Aw Hell Pass!

This is the loosest adaptation of anything I've ever seen. In fact, loose doesn't even begin to describe it. What Sci-Fi has done is taken the title of the Robert Louis Stevenson's novella in order to draw viewers in, and nothing else.

The TV movie follows Dr. Henry Jekyll, now a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. The entire supporting cast of Stevenson's story, even in name, is nonexistent. Jekyll travels to China with his new bride for a honeymoon. There he encounters Chinese mobsters who maim the doctor, kill his wife, and leave him for revenge.

Up to this point, the movie had potential. An action-adventure vigilante retelling of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" might have been worth seeing. Unfortunately, the movie never even tries to live up to its source material. Dr. Jekyll apprentices himself to a local medicine man and studies martial arts under the name "Edward Hyde." It looks like Sci-Fi had to throw both of those names in there somewhere in order to keep the title. Eventually, in the final third of the movie, Dr. Jekyll does make a medicine that gives him glowing eyes, sharp teeth, and a killer edge. But Stevenson's theme of the struggle between good and evil inside of every man is unexplored. If Sci-Fi was going to take the title, they should have at the very least tried to stay true to the theme. Under the influence of the medicine, Dr. Jekyll is aware, even more aware, of what he is doing. Mr. Hyde is all alias, no altar ego.

The acting performances are solid, but the movie is hard to enjoy when it begs to be compared to its classic source material. Before the halfway point of the movie, the "Based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson" in the credits seems like a bold-faced lie. If you enjoy American-in-China-kung-fu-action movies, and you have nothing better to watch, try this on for size. If you're looking for an adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", avoid this, or you'll be sorely disappointed.

Ouch, this one sucks big time. Too many plot holes, atrocious acting (if you can call it acting in the first place), rotten one-liners, wisecracking Chicago cop, this film just has no saving grace except some lovely shots of Hong Kong. Take my word, skip it.