Police Story (1985 film)

• Jackie Chan: Kevin Chan Ka Kui
• Brigitte Lin: Selina Fong
• Maggie Cheung: May
• Charlie Cho: John Ko
• Chu Yuan: Tom Ku (as Yuen Chor )

Police Story (Chinese警察 故事, Pinyin jǐngchá Gushi ) is an action comedy from Hong Kong by and starring Jackie Chan from the year 1985. The film was a commercial success and meant for Jackie Chan the final breakthrough.

Action

Police Detective Kevin finally can arrest drug boss Chee, his secretary now to testify as a witness against him. However, this disappears before she can say and so Chee is released due to lack of evidence again. He now wants to take revenge for his arrest to Kevin by attaching him to the murder of another policeman. Kevin is then chased by both the police and the criminals, but he tried both to prove his innocence as well as arrest the drug lord permanently. In a large shopping center, it comes to a spectacular final battle, but ultimately still can triumph by Kevin.

Formation

The idea for this movie Jackie Chan was the protector through the film.

When sliding down to the lighting in shopping mall Jackie Chan has dislocated both the back as well as the burned palms.

Reviews

" Incredible stunts. The perfect popcorn movie "

" The film lives by his action and fight scenes. In Police Story Chan can live out his talent as a stunt director full. The fight scenes are characterized by large because of realism. One senses that Chan has not forgotten his origins and still the hat prefers the Asian art of his stunt colleagues. "

Effect

The film was later partially imitated by American directors. The chase through the slums at the beginning of the film is strongly reminiscent of the final chase through the slums in Michael Bay's action film Bad Boys II in 2003. A chase scene with a double-decker, in which due to an abrupt halt passers through the windshield on the road fall, in 1989 copied by Sylvester Stallone in his movie Tango and Cash.

Trivia

• Due to the high number of stunts with the glass film by the crew was also called "Glass Story".
• Sugar glass in the film was used that was twice as thick as it is usually the case for films, in order to achieve a greater degree of realism. This, however, the risk of injury is increased.
• In the Busstuntszene there was an accident. Although it was planned that the stuntmen flying through the window, but the braking effect of the bus was different than expected, so that the men on the asphalt fell instead to the prepared for this car, as it was planned.
• Chan chose the title name Police Story, because he was in Hong Kong to deal with many imitators. When he produced, for example, Drunken Master, several films about the Drunken Boxing been announced. So he opted for this item, especially since there was no kung fu film police at this time and therefore bent his attempts at imitation ago.
• In the final stunt, in which Chan sliding down a pole with lights, he retired to severe cuts and burns. He would have almost broken the seventh and eighth vertebrae of his spine, which would have led to paraplegia.
• The name is in Police Story 4 other Jackie Chan movies used: Police Story 2, Police Story 3 (also known as Super Cop ), Police Story 4 - First Strike ( in Germany known as Jackie Chan's First Strike ), and New Police Story. However, this is only Police Story 2 is a direct sequel. " Super Cop " and " first strike " have only the main character, his girlfriend and one of his superiors than similarities with the first part. Reference is also no reference to the first two parts. In "New Police Story" is even the name of the protagonist another; it is a completely self-contained movie.

Awards

• Hong Kong Film Awards (1986 ): Best Film, Best Action Choreography.

German versions

Since May 2005 the first time there is an uncut version of the film in Germany, which is released from 16 years. All previously available versions, for 16 years and also FSK 18 were truncated. The G - 18 version, which was indicated by 28 February 2002 in Germany also allows approximately 16 minutes of comedy and action sequences to miss, as this corresponds to the truncated U.S. version. The old FSK 16 version is also reduced by about nine minutes of violence and thus achieving an overall average length of about 25 minutes. The scenes that were missing in the old FSK 18 version, but have not been synchronized in the uncut version and are therefore within the Cantonese original version with German subtitles ago. In the German version Jackie Chan is synchronized by Arne Elsholtz, the Tom Hanks lends his voice.