Mr. Nice Guy (1997 Film) - New Line Cinema Edit and DVD Releases

New Line Cinema Edit and DVD Releases

New Line Cinema obtained international distribution rights to the film and made the following cuts and edits

• The score was re-done and the Golden Harvest logo was cut. New Line Cinema also over-dubbed some of the original English dialog and actors' voices, making them sound more American.
• The film's two opening scenes were switched around. The original Hong-Kong version of the film opens with the scene where Giancarlo discovers that his lover, Tina, is a Demon spy. Then Giancarlo and his men throw her into the "guesthouse," an empty, sandy area where they bury victims alive. Then the scene switches to Jackie Chan's TV chef program. New Line Cinema, however, opened with Jackie Chan's TV chef show, and then to the scene with Giancarlo. New Line Cinema's edit gives the film a more comical tone in the beginning, whereas the original Golden Harvest edit gives the film a more serious tone in the beginning.
• New Line Cinema shortened a dinner scene with Jackie, Lakeisha, Baggio, Richard, and Jackie's niece and nephew.
• A short scene was cut with Jackie's nephew pushing his sister (Jackie's niece) when she tries to take the incriminating tape of Giancarlo out of the VCR.
• The conversation between Lakeisha and Jackie Chan about Jackie's girlfriend is cut short.
• Cuts were made to the fight scenes on the horse carriage and the van, as well as bits and pieces of violence throughout the film.
• A brief scene of Miki talking to herself in the bathroom was cut.
• During the botched operation to rescue Miki from the Demons, a brief scene was cut with Richard going against the police chief's orders and telling all units to converge on Jackie, followed by Richard and the chief briefly arguing before the chief agrees with Richard.
• New Line Cinema switches back and forth to the construction site fight scene and the interrogation scene of Demon gang members by Giancarlo and his men. The HK version shows both of these scenes one after another seamlessly. New Line also cuts footage of Giancarlo shooting the Demon members during interrogation.
• A brief scene with Richard talking to Diana at a hospital ward was cut.

Various DVD version of this film have been made. Currently, only the Warner Brothers Japanese R2 version is the only version out there with the original English dialog and the fully uncut film. However, the picture is non-anamorphic and has no English subtitles. The Taiwan Funny version has both versions, but the uncut version is dubbed in Mandarin. The HK version is uncut but is dubbed in Cantonese. Both the Tawainese and HK versions refer to the Demons as the "Wolves," although in the end credits the actors are credited as "Demons."