Good start, but then it gets ruined

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Better Late Then Never

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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

Recap: Dr Jekyll has just married and he and his beautiful wife has left for Hong Kong on their honeymoon. Apparently random events mix them up with the triads and their organ theft trade. His wife dies but Jekyll is rescued by an old man proficient with the old Chinese medicine. He nurses Jekyll back to life, under the assumed name Edward Hyde, and later tells him that he is part of an ancient Chinese prophecy and battle between good and evil.Comments: Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde vs. Hong Kong action clearly was a knockout victory for the Hong Kong action. The only thing that links this story with the original classic is the names Jekyll and Hyde. The result is almost laughable. Why they try to include the classic theme is beyond me, as it is actually a decent low budget Hong Kong action. If they only had left out the ridiculous names.Adam Baldwin is a personal favorite since Firefly, and he brings some of the same elements here. He is action with an edge of humor. He is what a movie of this kind needs. Just wait until he gets out of the silly wig/hair extensions.I'm not quite sure if this was intended as a pilot for a TV series that never materialized or what the writer and director planned. Because the end is one of the worst endings I ever seen. It's not what you might call an open ending that can continue, because the movie just isn't finished at the ending. It's like the production ran out of money three quarters into the movie and just shut down. It's ridiculous. My spontaneous reaction was basically "What the…?" Can't really recommend this to anyone. The end ruins it all, because the silly Jekyll/Hyde reference can be ignored. Otherwise it is decent Hong Kong action.3/10

I never can figure out how turkeys like this get green-lighted by movie studios. Are they that desperate to make money? I just wasted two hours of my life watching this giant pile of fail. It looked as if Coppola took 3 different movies: a martial arts flick, an east-west cop/buddy pic, and the Jekyll-Hyde story, and tried to stitch them all together Frankenstein-style into one movie. Add some crappy dialogue, cheesy one-liners that fail miserably and hambone acting (everyone in this movie is pretty bad, an Adam Baldwin chews the scenery like a beaver on crack) and the result is a confused, unappealing mess.Don't waste your time like I did. Watch a good movie instead.

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.