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Police Story

Jackie Chan (Actor), Maggie Cheung (Actor), Jackie Chan (Director) | Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: VHS Tape
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)

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Jackie Chan has become a genre unto himself, and watching Police Story, you'll understand why. The plot is minimal: Chan is a hero cop involved in a raid that goes wrong. He's assigned to guard a witness, the kingpin's attractive female secretary (Brigitte Lin). For the rest of the film, Chan's protecting himself from the secretary, from the gangsters out to silence her and from his own jealous girlfriend (Maggie Cheung). But watching Chan for plot is like watching porno for existential themes. While most modern action films steal cues from Westerns, Chan condenses those open mesas into the dense throngs of modern Hong Kong--and tosses in Buster Keaton slapstick. For example, when the opening raid goes haywire, there's an unbelievable car chase through the steep huddle of a hillside shantytown. That's through. No roads, just shacks. Flimsy shacks. As the film progresses, Chan scales a speeding bus using an umbrella, uses cow dung as an excuse to break into some Shaolin moonwalking and transforms an urban shopping mall into a demented gymnasium (think clothes racks, escalators, and lots of plate glass displays). Chan is amazingly versatile both physically and emotionally--and he's a secure enough star-director to let his co-stars shine, too. --Grant Balfour

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This classic Jackie Chan picture opens with one of the wildest police action set pieces ever filmed, an extended chase that includes the total destruction of a hillside shanty settlement, as fleeing crooks and pursing cops crash down through it with their vehicles. Overall, however, the picture is an awkward mixture of clashing elements. At first it is a little strange seeing Chan playing it (mostly) straight in a hard-edged police thriller. The fights are all extremely ferocious and real-looking, without the lighthearted slapstick stylization that leavens his best period vehicles, like Project A, Part II. The comedy elements (especially a recurrent cake-in-the-face gag) seem to come out of nowhere; they are no longer integral to the spirit of the movie. But there are wonderful set pieces, stunts, and action scenes, including Jackie struggling to answer a dozen jangling phones at once, when he's left alone at the police station, and the all-out, glass-smashing fervor of a climactic battle royal in a shopping mall. --David Chute
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5.0 out of 5 stars They call this dubbing???!!!, Jun 10 2003
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M.C (out there in la la land) - See all my reviews
This review is from: J.Chans Police Force (VHS Tape)
Yep, the dubbing on this film is right up there with that of FISTS OF FURY, and just about all of the Japanese GODZILLA films, which is not good. But with Jackie Chan around, that more than makes it all worthwhile. The plot has Jackie playing Kenny Chan, a Hong Kong detective determined to break up a drug ring. He soon get's so close to reaching his goal that the drug lords frame him for murder. Uh,Oh!! And that's why this has got to be one of Jackie's best movies ever, Hong Kong or otherwise. It's got all the Kung Fu he's known for, as well as equally balanced comedy, especially with his girlfriend May (Mega-Babe Maggie Cheung), who would rather cream him with his own birthday cake than see him with another woman. How many of you guys out there know how he feels? And POLICE FORCE even has a number of sequels, like POLICE STORY 2 (POLICE FORCE was called POLICE STORY in Hong Kong), POLICE STORY III:SUPERCOP (Called SUPERCOP in the U.S.) and POLICE STORY IV (Called JACKIE CHAN'S FIRST STRIKE in the U.S.) all of which are said to be just as cool as POLICE FORCE. Probably. Jackie Chan fans can't lose with this, and your'e sure to love Maggie Cheung
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5.0 out of 5 stars police story, April 29 2009
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Michel Vincelette "vincelette" (montreal pq canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Police Story (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)
it s the first movie of a series and it s a great one a lot of actions and
stunts and i think it s the first one of jackie who will became it s trake
mark.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Why didn't Jackie dub this one?, Jun 5 2003
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M.C (out there in la la land) - See all my reviews
This review is from: J.Chans Police Force (VHS Tape)
It's not saying much that I'm peeved that Jackie didn't dub this movie himself, unlike almost all of his other films. The movie has all the comedy, martial arts, and attractive Chinese women you'd come to expect from a Jackie Chan film. It focuses on Kenny Chan (Jackie, of course), a hong kong police man intent on busting a local drug ring. All of his attempts to do so have failed, but when he gets to close, he's framed for a murder he didn't commit. Maggie Cheung is his pretty and easily made jealous girlfriend, who would rather smash his face in with a birthday cake than see him with another woman. You gotta love that final battle in the mall, and that scene where Jackie gets so mad at a lawyer, he beats him up until the guy doesn't know what's what. And I almost died laughing when Jackie is trying to talk his girlfriend out of leaving him, and winds up hurting her in unbelievably hilarious way. This is by far one of Jackie's best. I can't wait to see him in SUPERCOP or his good friend Micelle Yeoh in SUPERCOP 2. a Million cheers for Jackie (and hopefully a date with Maggie Cheung)
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