New Police Story

The series that made Jackie Chan famous in Hong Kong, and it is such a nice way to bring everything backs to his roots. Although it is not as good as his other Police Story movies, it is still a very entertaining movie with deep plotlines and a cast of pretty memorable characters.

The story of New Police Story follows Jackie Chan and a raid against a group of young punks causing chaos in Hong Kong. Jackie and his police crew fell into a trip and was completely wiped out except for Jackie. Due to this incident, Jackie went off for a very long time as a drunkard. It isn't until the arrival of Nicholas Tse that Jackie started to fight the riot kids again.

Between the main plot is some very fun to watch scenes. This includes a bomb that can't be tilt, some sensitive child-abuse storyline, and of course all of Jackie Chan's awesome fighting sequences. The film is pretty long, running at over two hours, and most of the stuff are predictable, but non-the-less fun to watch. The highlight of the movie is not the plot, unsurprisingly, but all the great action that is in it. Jackie Chan is a fairly old man, but some of the stuff that he is still doing is very impressive.

New Police Story is not going to have as big as an impact as the others in the series, but it is nice for Jackie Chan to go back to action cop movies in Hong Kong instead of making super crap-ass films like “Around the World in 80 Days” and “The Medallion.”

Year: 2004
Director: Benny Chan

8.2/10