Police Story (Ging Chaat Goo Si, 警察故事)
*****
Director – Jackie Chan – 1985 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 100m
Police Story II (Ging Chaat Goo Si Juk Jaap, 警察故事續集)
***1/2
Director – Jackie Chan – 1988 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 101m
Police Story 3 Supercop (Ging Chaat Goo Si III: Chiu Kup Ging Chaat, 警察故事３超級警察)
*****
Director – Stanley Tong– 1992 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 96m
The Police Story trilogy is a landmark of Hong Kong action cinema. As David West points out in his informative essay in the accompanying booklet to Eureka’s welcome 4K UHD release of the three films, the first one was the point in Jackie Chan’s career where he broke with period dramas to make a vehicle for himself that was totally modern, set in contemporary Hong Kong rather than an historic Chinese past or even the early twentieth century of his own Project A series of films. Action films set in the present started to emerge in Hong Kong in the early 1980s, with a couple of them directed by Chan’s fellow former Peking Opera schoolmate Sammo Hung, who managed to secure roles for Jackie some way down the cast list in Winners And Sinners (1983) and My Lucky Stars (1985).
Both of Chan’s films Project A (1983) and Police Story (1985) were successful enough to spawn a number of sequels. In the case of the latter franchise, the third one Police Story 3 – Supercop was the undeniable high point to which we’ll return shortly. (Alongside their UHD release of the Police Story Trilogy, Eureka have also released a standalone Blu-ray of that particular film, which is good news for anyone who doesn’t have a UHD ready player but wants a Blu-ray copy to go with Eureka’s earlier releases of the first two films.) Among the numerous extras on the three disc trilogy version, the PS1 disc includes an invaluable 20-minute archive interview of Chan discussing the way the film was put together. It’s the school of filmmaking where the main player has some sequence ideas he wants to put in the film, and he gets in writers to build a structure to incorporate them and make the whole thing work… [Read more at All The Anime]
The Police Story Trilogy is released on UHD Blu-ray in the UK and Police Story 3 on standard Blu-ray by Eureka! Entertainment.
Full article originally published in All The Anime.
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