Product Details

• Actors: Adam Baldwin, Steve Bastoni, Anthony Brandon Wong, Jason Chong, Karen Cliche
• Directors: Colin Budds
• Writers: Peter M. Lenkov, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Producers: Darryl Sheen, Francis Ford Coppola, Greg Coote, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Paul E. Painter
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mti Home Video
• VHS Release Date: April 6, 2004
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005Q4FW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #401,557 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Any connection to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale is tenuous at best in this action-packed superhero story with dark undertones. Adam Baldwin is San Francisco surgeon Henry Jekyll, whose honeymoon in Hong Kong becomes a nightmare when a triad gang murders his wife and marks him for death. Saved by a mysterious Chinese healer who speaks in fortune cookie clichés, he becomes a kind of hero-in-training (think The Karate Kid and Mr. Miyagi) with a mystic twist: he discovers the herbal formula to release his inner brute and transforms into a demonic-looking Hyde. The colorful mix of cop show, gangster thriller, and mystic martial arts adventure ends on an anticlimactic note, as if this made-for-TV feature was the pilot for a never-launched TV series, but it's an energetic and spirited film that, for all its kooky clichés, remains oddly compelling. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars underrated action film, February 16, 2006

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Barbara Keranen (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (DVD)

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde was a pleasant surprise. We thought it would be the usual kung foo action film, instead found it to be full of gentle humor, Chinese medicine, and interesting characters. Adam Baldwin(Dr. Jekyll) and Chang Tseng(Dr. Chau) relate extremely well to each other and have a unique student-teacher relationship. Do yourself a favor and watch this movie.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NICE TRY BUT DISAPPOINTING RESOLUTION, October 5, 2005

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (DVD)

Francis Ford Coppola executive produced this film for his Zoetrope studios, and it must have been a pilot for a failed tv series, as it has no real resolution. Giving the classic story a new twist, it has nothing to do with its classic source, but instead is almost a transcendtalized superhero movie with a buff and surprisingly effective Adam Baldwin inhabiting the dual roles. Full of mystic mumbojumbo and some fairly well staged karate fights, this version gives us the dual-faced doctor as a vengeful fellow out to avenge the brutal murder of his bride on their honeymoon in Hong Kong. Baldwin teams up with a Chinese fairy godfather and learns the ins and outs of herbal medicine in his attempts to bring down the bad guys. Not bad but since we don't get a resolution, one feels a little cheated.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adam Baldwin, November 24, 2005

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Mom in Maryland (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (DVD)

He makes me swoon... and I was surprised to see him in something not half bad. The lack of resolution makes me wish it had been fleshed out into a series, but still overall enjoyable.