Lately I've been watching
the Police Story series and a couple of them might be worth checking
out. I watched Police Story 1, Police Story 2, Police Story 3: Super
Cop, New Police Story and Police Story 2013. I did not watch Police
Story 4: First Strike since i have seen it before but that also means
that it will not be in my opinions this round. I went into these
movies kinda blind, with the exception of having seen Police Story 4,
and didn't know what to expect.
In Police Story 1(1985) we
follow Jackie Chan's character Chan Ka-kui, a police officer in Hong
Kong. The plot is very straight forward, he gets framed for murder
and need to clean his name. That's about as much plot your gonna get
from an action/martial-arts/movie made in the middle of the 80's i
guess. The story of the movie is really ok though, not bad but far
from great. The have a lot of this weird awkward humor in the movie
and some weird editing choices witch ruins it for me. Mainly the
humor that makes it bad for me. What kinda saves the movie is Jackie
Chan and his fighting capabilities. The fight at the end is very good
and intense. Also, in the end credits you get too see the injuries
and almost accidents of the stunt team. They gave it all in this one.
This movie is for you if you love Jackie Chan, martial arts or Hong
Kong movies. It is not for the average moviegoer. It's also made in
Cantonese so if you don't like seeing movies in another language then
english don't watch this.
TL;DR
It has an ok story with
some very good fightscenes and a Jackie Chan that plays his role very
well. This movie is Cantonese so remember subtitles. There are some
weird and awkward humor which in my opinion is not good for the
movie. This is not for the average moviegoer.
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