Police Story: Lockdown (2013)

hyped garbage

How sad is this?

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There are few important scenes that have satisfied me well. So, I want to tell the film a good film, not very good or a great film. But I want to admire the director that some scenes of the film are very important and the story is very good to me. And totally the story is different from any other film I have watched. A good film can give more pleasure to the audience and 'Police Story: Lockdown' is such an example.

This is another Jackie Chan movie featuring himself, nothing less, nothing more. To call this is a Police Story sequel is a big stretch, it practically have nothing to do with the first 2( or 3 including supercop but supercop was a Michelle Yeoh movie).The movie itself is alright, thriller elements, fight between Jackie and the Thai(?) guy, Tian Jing who's everywhere now in martial art movies, these are pretty much like a standard in any martial art movies now.What's wrong with the movie is that, one, Jackie isn't Chan kai ku, that doesn't make sense, 2, the directing.. Police Story was used to be fast paced, self serious ( which this movie is also the case), and insane stunt choreography, it's really the slow pace in this movie that's unsettling me as the first 2 movies fans, it's used to be a HK flick when the people in it are so hyper speed that make their movies also speak that fast tongue language, that's what was unique about HK flicks but now all Chinese movies are just a bunch of Hollywood wannabes.In general, I wouldn't pay money to see this Jackie Chan movie that's my afterthought after watching it.

Starting good, the pros: good writing, good acting, good direction, good character, good action. There is nothing really wrong with this movie(except for a few times where the shaky cam is just too much). However, it could've turn into an exceptionally amazing film, but the director/writer/producers/studios played safe on the ending. All this movie, the dark, gritty tone and the characters, builds up to the final showdown(gunshot on the train-track). It made me feel the same feeling(kudos to the director and writer) as I did with Se7en's showdown: the moral conflict within the character. Could've gone Se7en's route and leave an emotional impact on the viewer by killing off Chan's character, but they instead backs away, and instead gave us a minor fight and a happy ending. What a wasted opportunity.

This was absolute crap. The movie made absolutely no sense for the first hour, maybe even 1:20, and when it finally came together it was such a convoluted piece of rubbish that it made my head hurt. The movie just had absolutely no logic to it. They tried to make it seem like it did all in the last 5 minutes, but that didn't change anything. It made zero sense for any of his buddies to be in this situation with him, nor why any of these random people (except for Jackie and his daughter) actually all showed up. The cops/swat tactics were bordering on insanity, serving no real purpose unless their goal was to actually get everyone killed. And worst of all, it had little to no action; with what little action their was ridiculously short and comprised of lots of camera angle switching and silly slow motion scenes. Worst Jackie Chan movie I've ever seen, and that's really saying something. But don't get me wrong, Jackie wasn't bad in it or anything. It was just the cockamamie story that made this such a trite piece of garbage. 1/10 stars.