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 [show more]
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Action thriller starring Jackie Chan as a volatile Hong Kong policeman. Chan Ka Kui (Chan) finds himself incapable of standing aside when Mr Ku, the druglord he has brought to book, walks free from court on a technicality. Assigned to protect Ku's secretary Selina (Brigitte Lin), Ka Kui is soon framed for the death of a fellow cop who was on the take from Ku's organisation, and must deploy all of his violent streetsmart to prove his innocence. The film features many notoriously dangerous stunts, choreographed and directed by Chan himself.
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