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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Police
EAN: 0796019796507
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Dragon Dynasty
Languages: CantoneseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledEnglishPublishedDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Dragon Dynasty
MPN: GEPD79650D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dragon Dynasty
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Dragon Dynasty
Theatrical Release Date: September 11, 1987
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 12/19/2006 Run time: 101 minutes
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Amazon.com:
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 costars shine, too. --Grant Balfour
Amazon.com essential video
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
By general consensus, Jackie Chan has made two very great movies above others: The Legend of Drunken Master and "Police Story". "Drunken Master" is a straight kung fu film while "Police Story" is more of a balanced action movie, incorporating gunfights and car chases with the martial arts. On the whole, I like "Master" more because its story progression is easier to understand and it has fewer pauses between action scenes, but "Police Story" is no slouch, either. While it does drag a bit in the middle, ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is an awesome look at the young Jackie Chan. In his prime, he was amazing -- fast, funny, and overwhelmingly powerful. This film has silly, stupid scenes that Jackie has become famous for. It has the great fight scenes and choreography that Jackie Chan is not only famous for, but in many ways, a style of film that he really put on the global market and created the world's appetite for.
This film is awesome, fun, silly and fabulous.
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You have to wonder who on Earth would grow up wanting to be one of Jackie Chan's stunt team - looking at Police Story it's pretty obvious that you'll spend more time in the hospital than on the set. These guys aren't faking getting hurt - they really are getting hurt, and you don't need to see the end credits outtakes montage of them being carried away to work that out. But then, it's not as if Jackie Chan isn't sharing their pain. If it looks like there's a real sense of danger, that's ... Read More
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JACKIE CHAN'S 1 OF HIS 1ST MOVIES HAS A PLOT BUT STILL CAN TIL IT IS DONE N JAP.
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This is one of the best JC movies in history. Some, such as Brett Ratner who in on the DVD bonus footage, say if you only see one JC movie, this is the one to see. It may well be his best, but I enjoyed so many of his earlier movies it's hard to pick a favorite. I might pick Armour of God as the best ever (marketed as Operation Condor 2 in the US). Not much to add that hasn't been said by everyone else. I would say that you must understand this movie was made in Cantonese (so you can expect bad dubbing) and ... Read More
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