New Police Story

in English please

With New Police Story, Jackie Chan is obviously trying to change his image. From being known as a comedy actor, he nows jumps in the opposite direction, to star in an outrageously serious and violent action movie. A movie so intense, in fact, that it's hard to take seriously. I question the wisdom of this career move for Chan. Sure, he's got more acting range than most people probably assume, and sometimes he wants to show off those skills. That's fine, but I think this comes as a too sudden change. A lot of his fans will go into this movie expecting the same old Jackie Chan they know from a myriad action comedies, incl. the other Police Story movies. A lot of those people are in for a nasty surprise. Here we have sadistic cop killers who utterly ruin his life, make him a drunkard and later nearly kill his girlfriend. The anguish and darkness here is palpable to the extreme! The movie doesn't have a lot of plot holes, though, as some are claiming. We do eventually get the explanations for the bad guys' motivations, and the mysterious PC 1667 is also explained at the end. But there isn't much depth to any of the characters, except Chan's, a little bit. It's an action thrill ride with lots of wild stunts, some less necessary than others (the entire bus thing was enormously contrived; why did the crook shoot at it in the first place? That scene, despite being probably the most memorable action scene in the movie, felt like it belonged in a completely different movie), and the production values are good. The last part of the movie has some fun moments, which is good. But it's all too wild, too shocking, too far out, and it ends up just not being very enjoyable (too intense! Too anguished!), to say nothing of believable. So while it's certainly a spectacular departure from Chan's time-honored comedy style, I can't go so far as to call it an unmitigated success, much less a classic. 6 out of 10.

After so much good review and the relatively high critics on this movie, I really thought it is going to be something like the first or the second in the Police Story Series, but unfortunately this is not so. The plot and character of Jackie's movies rarely were criterion for judging them. Most of his movies are funny. Some of them were serious action movies. The director of 'New Police Story' hasn't decided which side to take, and has mixed both humor and tragic to it. The movie starts tragically, with Jackie Chan as a Chief Police Officer loosing his team. This tragic atmosphere supposedly bears throughout the movie abundant with idiotic jokes not fitting this atmosphere. Sometimes it's like laughing at the funeral. Although the stunts are great as always, and Jacky delivers some good moments, they are blended with exaggerated, unnecessary visual effects. The fight choreography is typical and doesn't catch the eye more than usual. The movie being over two hours long exhibit with a little of fight scenes, and stunt scenes saturated with nonsense talk that clearly spoils the movie.

I watched this movie a couple of days ago and I love it, I haven't watched such an amazing movie in ages. I would really, really advise everyone to watch this, it's another spectacular movie from Jackie Chan and co. I love all the actors and actresses and I think their performances were phenomenal. Everything about the movie convinced me it was real and I think that it took a lot of courage to perform the stunts they did and I really honour them for that! I really haven't got anything bad to say about it, I wish that everyone would watch it and if you are a Jackie Chan fan, then you should definitely watch it and comment too, because it deserves all the credit and gratitude from the fans. I loved to see a lot of my other favourite actors, such as Daniel Wu, Andy On, Hayama Go, Terence Yin, Coco Chiang, and I know they are all of the terrorists or whatever you want to call them, but I know them all and love them all.

For anyone who's become slightly bored of the often un easy American outings of Jackie Chan new police story is a breath of fresh air. It returns to the slightly grittier moods of some of his 80's films whilst still retaining his charm and wit.If you liked Police story 2, then i feel you will not be disappointed with the latest police story. In comparison to his earlier films,the action is slightly slower, and includes cgi elements in some of the scenes. But damn it, the mans over 50 and he's still jumping off buildings and kicking ass. The story line is sound, if a little odd at times to a western viewer, but enjoyable none the less. One unfortunate draw back is unless you speak Cantonese, the gag reel at the end is a disappointment

This stirring story about the cop named Chang Wing of the Hong Kong precinct is well played by Jackie Chan. When his police buddies are chased by a wicked criminal band , Wing turns into an unfortunate boozer. A youth allegedly police inspector helps him to track down the gang of five commanded by nasty Joe. Then Chan looks for vengeance against the ominous villains at a cat and mouse game. This exciting movie is crammed of action-packed, breathtaking stunt-work and lots of violence.Jackie Chan is top notch as one army man fighting a group of heinous criminals and as always he makes his own stunts like is showed on the final fake-shots. Awesome,incredible stunts and brief comic touches, as usual ; the picture is better constructed than its predecessor. The lighting-paced storyline slows down at times because the runtime is overlong, two hours and some, but frenetic action sequences make up for it. Spotlights movie include Jackie jumping over a bus , furthermore dangling and downing a skyscraper, among others. This is a phenomenal action movie distinguished by nicely cinematography of the spectacular sequences , though contain lesser sense of humor than previous entries. However while the former outings Jackie teamed up to prestigious actresses and fine action stars in their own right ,like Maggie Cheung and Michelle Khan , at this film his parternaire is unknown. The first version titled ¨Police story(1985)¨ directed by the same Jackie Chan was a perfect action film for enthusiastic of the genre; the following was ¨Police story 2(1988)¨also pretty violent and with abundant humor touches. It's followed by ¨Supercop¨ directed by Stanley Tong and finally, ¨Police story IV : Crime story. Rating : Good, the picture has its sensational moments , mostly provided by its agile star, the great Jackie Chan.

I am a big fan of Jackie Chan. I have waited for this movie to come out (English dubbed/subtitles) for quite a while. Today, I came across it and sadly, viewed it just before I wrote this review. Throughout the movie, I was waiting for an ending scene where Jackie wakes up and says "Woah! What a nightmare! Getting humiliated by snobby teen video game punks who made the biggest fool out of me by making me lose bets with them for the lives of my friends(eg. LOADING A GUN! OH THE SUSPENSE!), tried to kill my girlfriend, killed my girlfriend's brother, killed my friends, and then I feel sympathy for these loons by the end of my dream...That was worse than the moment in Drunken Master (I) where I had to crawl through that stinky old man's legs after getting my ass handed to me!" The plot was out right over the line, unrealistic, cheesy, and horrible! An impersonator walking into a police building and getting officers to think he is a police officer. Unorganized police missions where you have Captain Jack telling the Channel News24 his plans while the villains listen in. Let alone, not having a SWAT team of some sort, not knowing the layout of the buildings, and using lame hand guns for dynamic entrances. Rich kids having better technology than the police force while being better trained and having better guns. Dramatic scene where Jackie's girlfriend asks him if he loves her while she has a bomb strapped to her neck and then decides it is time to cut the cables with the scissors after Jackie leaves to get help. Jackie crying. You might as well call it all a bad dream as this movie is so surreal and unrealistic that it is near impossible to suspend your disbeliefs throughout the film. If you do watch this movie the way I did, let me tell you...The fast forward button will be your best friend. I'm still laughing out loud at how horrible this movie was. It's hard to believe people invested time, money, and dangering themselves for this garbage. The way they showed how Jackie Chan cared for the stooges who killed/injured people close to him by the end of the movie is beyond me! This is, in no way, like the original Police Story where Jackie doesn't stand around and cry like a little baby, but actually fights back and has no remorse! Oh yeah, and they even had a SWAT team in that movie! This movie was stupid, over dramatic, and horrible. Not even the stunts, special effects, or the impressive dubbing could save it! Bottom line: If your * is to watch Jackie get smacked all over the place for 2/3rds of a movie and cry like a baby while drinking his flask along with a poor plot on the side with annoying villains who you will eventually suppose to feel sorry for in the end, then by all means watch this movie! If you like laughing at bad movies, this movie is for you! If you're me who wants to see Jackie kick ass and show no mercy along a nice plot...Stick with the other Police Stories, especially the first one! Note: I deducted stars from this movie for plot, poor dialog, direction, production, and every time Jackie Chan decided it was time to cry. I gave it stars for stunts, special FX, and impressive dubbing for a bad movie. I hope somebody puts up a petition to change the name of this movie from 'New Police Story' to 'New Crap Story'.

I am wondering why Jackie Chan is still making movies instead of going with early retirement. There is not one single good movie in his whole career and this one is also not much better. Every single stunt we have seen in his other movies, every single funny moment has been done about a hundred times. Maybe it's because this is for people without brains to watch or for the masses who just want one and a half hour with popcorn, a coca-cola and go home again. I must say though that the story in this movie is better than in all his other movies, and it is moving at times. But that's about it. The worse thing however for me was the fact that AGAIN his Hong Kong movies (In Kantonese) get a mandarin dubbing, ad Indonesian translation (subtitles) and it is even worse. Above average though, but if someone will grant Jackie early retirement, I won't shed a tear.

Story is very badly written and unrealistic. Why would Jackie lead a small group of what looks like regular cops, armed with little handguns into a warehouse knowing that the suspects are armed with machine guns? Isn't is standard procedure with police forces around the world to call in the SWAT team in this kind of situations? This is what, 2005? Doesn't the Hong Kong police have the technology and resources to get a layout of the warehouse and brief the team before entering the warehouse where they act like untrained school children getting shot down one by one? Nicolas Tse, a regular dude impersonating a cop, gets to walk in and out of a police headquarters? even my office building has more security then that! Jackie cannot act, period. Don't get me wrong, he can fight and do great stunts but stick with what you are good at Jackie. He spends an hour of the movie trying force tears out of his eyes. Sure there are some good fight scenes but that's yesterday...Unless you have never seen any kung fu movie in your life. And where did they dig out Charlie Yung? she spoke what, 2 lines during the whole movie? Oh one more thing...it looks like they used the same set for the police headquarters as in Infernal Affairs. and the music sounds like they are trying so hard to copy Infernal affair's success. get a life Jackie or go retire.

NEW POLICE STORY (Xin Jing Cha Gu Shi) Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 Sound format: Dolby Digital A disgraced cop (Jackie Chan) is encouraged by a younger colleague (Nicholas Tse) to pursue the game-obsessed thugs who murdered an entire police squad. Dark-hearted addition to the "Police Story" series (a 'sequel' in name only) which signals its defiance of old traditions from the very first scene, in which Chan stumbles into an alleyway and pukes copiously before collapsing in a drunken stupor. Director Benny Chan (A MOMENT OF ROMANCE) energizes Alan Yuen's fast-paced script in no uncertain terms, and is reunited with several cast members from his recent blockbuster GEN-X COPS (1999), including Daniel Wu (ENTER THE PHOENIX) as the thuggish gang leader rebelling against a lifetime of abuse at the hands of his policeman stepfather, and teen idol Tse (genuinely charming as the young cop who - literally - picks Chan out of the gutter and restores his self-respect). Charlie Yeung has the thankless role of Chan's much younger love interest, and gorgeous Andy On (so memorable in the otherwise routine BLACK MASK II) kicks butt as a member of Wu's criminal fraternity who defeats Chan in open combat. The film's tone is much rougher than anything Chan has done recently, established by a harrowing sequence in which he's forced to play a series of 'games' with Wu and his cohorts in order to save the lives of his devastated squad members, and his subsequent remorse is played with great sensitivity by Chan, who becomes overwhelmed by guilt and depression (hence his drunken despair in the opening scene). Action set-pieces are fast and stylized, and there's a memorable climactic showdown on top of the Hong Kong Convention Center, spoiled only by blatant - and intrusive - product placement. Otherwise, this is top-notch entertainment all the way, conceived and executed with genuine cinematic flair. (Cantonese dialogue)