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).… Read the rest
