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Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) is a taxicab driver notorious for his speed and ability to get his customers anywhere in the least amount of time, usually without too many illegal methods. His reputation soon lands him a job as the personal chauffeur of the mysterious but wealthy Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs). Jimmy does not really know what his new boss' job is, but Devlin's friendly nature, imperturbable demeanor, and willingness to offer Jimmy advice wins Jimmy over and the two become friends. What Jimmy does not realize is that Devlin is a secret spy and undercover government agent, for an agency called the CSA. When an attempt to kill Devlin with a car bombing sends him into a coma, Jimmy ends up with Devlin's recent case notes and a special watch that controls Devlin's rather unusual tuxedo.

The tuxedo is a gadget capable of granting its wearer special abilities (including martial arts, speed, the ability to dance, the ability to cling on walls, and various acrobatics) which Jimmy must use to stop the criminal organization responsible for Devlin's attempted murder. The group is a terrorist organization disguised as a corporation named Banning Corporation and is headed by the notorious Dietrich Banning (Ritchie Coster). Its goal is to take over the global drinking water supply, beginning with the poisoning of major United States reservoirs by means of genetically modified water strider insects. These water striders have bacteria that can spread from person to person, causing severe dehydration. By pure chance, Jimmy is joined by a genius scientist with aspirations of field work, Delilah Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt) to stop them. Blaine is completely new to field work and is delighted to be on assignment with Devlin, relying on the tuxedo's special abilities to compensate for his lack of skill and training.

At first, Blaine thinks Jimmy is weird and annoying, and then a fraud when Jimmy's impersonation is finally exposed. She confiscates his borrowed tuxedo and attempts to stop the cruel Dietrich Banning on her own by feigning a desire to become a turncoat for Banning Corporation. Meanwhile, Jimmy is ready to give up and go back to his life as a taxicab driver, but while packing his belongings he discovers that Devlin had ordered a tuxedo made for Jimmy himself, believing that Jimmy could also be a great agent. Using his own tuxedo, Jimmy defeats the villain Banning by putting a cigarette into Blaine's mouth. Banning's tuxedo automatically forces him to pull out a lighter and ignite her cigarette. While Blaine is (comically) puffing on the ignited cigarette, Jimmy begins to punch Banning. During the fight, Jimmy throws a glass containing the queen of the water striders into Banning's mouth. He is then infected with bacteria by the water strider. The other remaining water striders attack Banning and he then dies instantaneously of terminal dehydration.

As compensation for his role in bringing down Banning, the government organization uses its resources to orchestrate an operation so that Jimmy can eventually meet his dream girl. However, confused by Blaine's and the now-recovered Devlin's conflicting instructions on how to perform, Jimmy succeeds only into alarming the girl into threatening to mace him, resulting in the operation being aborted. Consoling Jimmy afterwards, Blaine admits feeling depressed that no one had ever tried to do for her what Jimmy had just done, and Jimmy informs Blaine that she has to change her shrewish personality and be more accommodating if she ever wants to have a boyfriend. Feeling a tentative attraction for each other, they walk away to buy coffee together.