New Police Story (2004)

How sad is this?

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

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

This film obviously was released after what was known as the classic period of Hong Kong Cinema, and though it is an interesting action film, it simply does not come anywhere near the old style of Hong Kong movies. The main gripe that I had (at least with the version that I watched on DVD) was that the movie was dubbed in English, which is quite annoying to watch (though some parts seemed to have been filmed in English). As an action movie it is okay but as a Hong Kong action movie it is simply passed it's prime. It was much more American and in many cases reminded me of Point Break.The movie is about a police officer, Senior Inspector Wing (Jackie Chan, and no connection with Chan's character in the original police story) who goes after a terrorist group and ends up losing all of his men to a series of traps, so as a result resigns and becomes an alcoholic (not a very original beginning). However another police officer comes along and manages to convince him to rejoin the police force and finish off the job that needed to be completed.As mentioned, this movie is similar to Point Break. The movie involves a gang of teenagers that rob banks while wearing masks. Also, they don't do it for the money, but that is where the similarity ends. The main character does not infiltrate the group, and the group are not committing crimes simply for the adrenalin rush, but rather because they have a problem with the police and are going out of their way to make the police suffer. There is a very good reason for this which is explained in the film, but I will not reveal it here just in case some of you actually wish to watch this film.The New Police Story is a movie good on action and gun fights, as well as the trade marked stunts of Jackie Chan (who does all of his own stunts and has the outtakes at the end), but it is hardly original, nor is it anywhere near the classic Hong Kong cinema.

Having only watched only one film of his "...Police story" film, I randomly decided to rent out an action film. After a lot of searching around my eyes were stuck to New Police Story because it got a reasonable score on IMDb: number one site to search up films! The films blurb was interesting enough to make me rent this film our and after finishing this, I am glad and happy for the price I paid for this film. First thing you need to know is that this film is no Ong Bak or The Protector but it is different in it's ow way. The story is far more interesting than Ong Bak's and the action isn't one o one style all the time because there will be moments in the film where guns, traps, and even bombs are used to make the film a lot more fun and way more unbelievable. Apart from all the fighting stuff, there are a lot of stunts used in this film, like the part where Jackie Chan makes an entrance into a rampaging bus. Or maybe the part where he is dangling from the burning rope. Even the stunts were unbelievable at times. Jackie Chan is fantastic as ever in this film and this time his police story is far more interesting and funner to watch. I like the way that he is seen with such heroism but quickly descends down and tries to make a scene again and maybe regain his reputation with his fellow police officers. The heist scenes are cool to watch and with all the crazy monkeys leaping around the place, it is hard not to treasure scenes like those. The movie would have had ten stars if it wasn't for the length that was used for this particular film. Isn't an action film supposed to be fun, short, and nonsense. This film definitely has fun, a little bit of nonsense, and definitely sucks in length. If they had made the movie a bit shorter, it would have been the perfect action film. The plot is more interesting than the whole action bits whole together because the story is more heavy and, surprisingly, quite good. Jackie Chan is truly the best I have seen in a long time to star in a film, his acting has rather improved a lot but his great acting comes with a price: he hardly is humorous in the film. That is good in a way since this film deals with situation that are meant to be taken seriously. Jackie Chan is awesome and continues to amaze us with this film. His role is an self-guilty police officer who witnesses the death of his entire team is emotional, making it his most emotional role in his life. I, especially, love his fighting style and his performance. Bravo! So if Jackie Chan has no humor in New Police Story then where do we get it from. Answer: Nicholas Tse. Nicholas Tse plays a huge and important part in the film because he is the one who urges Jackie Chan's character, Inspector Chan Kwok-Wing, to stop his drinking habit and to come back in order to capture the mysterious, intelligent gang led by Joe Kwan, Daniel Wu, which is the named The Gang of Five. Nicholas is the stand in comedian for Jackie Chan. He looked like he wanted to be a mini - Chan and he mostly succeeds. Daniel Wu plays an evil gang leader who hates cops and wants to cause havoc. His team is rich, young fellows who have nothing better to do thank kill cops and rob banks. In Joe Kwan's case it is a whole different case. He doesn't come from a wealthy family like his gangs and throughout his childhood, he was beaten by his dad and his anger for the cops started from then on. Daniel Wu has everything to be a villain but often he disappoints.(Minor Spoilers)Inspector Chan Kwok-Wing is China's most valuable cop who comes and saves the day...most of the time. He has confidence and a whole lot of fighting skills backing him up but this time his confidence will ruin his life. A gang of thieves suddenly appear out of nowhere and start shooting cops with machine guns to earn money. A whole lot of cops die on that night. Chan, along with his whole team and his brother-in-law, find the thieves hideout and are prepared to face them. What they didn't expect is a confusing puzzle where they are taken one by one. As his whole team dies, he finally confronts the evil and ruthless gang. They play a sadistic and torturous game where he challenged to a game of random things that will secure his men....or kill them. A year later, Chan has quit the force and now is a drunk roaming the streets of China with criminals on the loose. When he passes out on the Sidewalk, a stranger helps him regain consciousness. After a lot of persuading from the strange man who is soon going to be his partner, Chan rejoins the force. This time the criminals will have nowhere to run.....The CGI is quite impressive and pretty strange. A Chinese Martial-art film only needs fighting to succeed but the case with this is different. The visual effects aren't crappy and fake but instead look pretty authentic. Thumbs up for that! The music and soundtrack in this film is epic and great to hear. During the opening credits and throughout the film, the music will appear a lot for the good reasons. One thing that really surprised me was that there was blood used in this film. Since when has blood ever been a film.....only breaking bones are mainly used. That was a little bit strange but it made the film a little bit more violent. Some of the games that the gang play are, literally, torturous and painful to watch."Over and Out." 25 March 2010.

Before watching this film for a first time, I was afraid it's going to be disappointing, because it was announced that this movie is going to be not typical for Jackie Chan movie's and since Jackie Chan's physical possibilities aren't that good as it was in the good old days, I thought that there will be a very little of action in this film. I was wrong. There sure was a lot of good action, just like in all those good old Jackie Chan's flicks. All fighting scenes were great, especially the last one, also there were few good shoot-out and chase scenes. There were lots of incredible stunts just like in all Police Story films. The plot was great too and there was some colorful bad guys in this film. I don't think that any of Jackie Chan's fans were disappointed by this film.

Let's face it, the movie is just bad. Jackie Chan is too old to be doing heavy duty fighting so he is trying his super powers at acting in something more that just bad heavy muscled Europeans trying to kill him and his girlfriend. And he fails miserably. It's not that he actually played very bad, but the script was hideous. There was no comedy, the ideas in it were completely unbelievable and even the fighting kind of sucked.You want to make a great Jackie Chan movie there are three ways to do it: great comedy, great fighting, or something really innovative, like playing a hard cold assassin that uses the Chan style to kill his victims and escape capture. Kind of like an evil Bourne :)Anyway, my daylight dreaming aside, this movie is a waste of time.