adonis98-743-186503 This installment of Chan's Police Story series has our hero trying to locate a missing nuclear warhead. I can't understand why Police Story 4: First Strike is considered a bad film when it's easily the best installment in the Franchise it's full of great action sequences (The scene with the ladder, the sharks and in the Hotal are some of my action scenes in a Jackie Chan movie and even to this day their still amazing). The acting from the entire cast is great especially Chan who once again his talent on doing his own stunts shines in the screen and he is also once again hilarious, the soundtrack is also terrific and something that you can listen to time and time again. Overall i can't say anything more about First Strike is fun, action packed and above all it looks great and it sounds great and it's without a doubt the most underrated sequel in the Entire Series. (A+)

OllieSuave-007 The third sequel to the Police Story trilogy is another high-energy, fast-paced and action-packed movie returning Jackie Chan to the role as the quick-witted and martial arts-skilled Hong Kong Insp. Chan Ka Kui. This time he is sent undercover to Australia where he participates in a sting operation on an international spy-ring.Chan continues to display some of his best martial arts action in this film, with incredible stunt work, daredevil jumps and butt-kicking action. It's good old-fashion fighting skills with no wires and CGI. While the previous Police Story movies are full of suspense and dramatic sequences, this one seemed to focus more the slapstick humor and goofy moments, like the part where Tsui (Jackson Liu) forces Chan to strip naked and where a penguin suit. The story is also riddled with some plot holes and the ending was rather rushed. The acting was OK, and the movie is notable for being the final film appearance of actor Bill Tung.There's not a dull moment in the movie, but I thought the plot could have used more character development and intriguing moments.Grade C+

BA_Harrison Part 4 of the Police Story series sees Jackie Chan's agile Hong Kong police inspector Chan Ka Kui become embroiled in James Bond-style international espionage after he is given the seemingly simple task of following beautiful suspect Natasha to Ukraine. When Natasha is abducted at the airport, Chan sets off in hot pursuit only to discover that she is involved with international arms dealers and the sale of a nuclear warhead.First Strike was made in the mid 90s, a transitional period for Jackie Chan, who was priming himself for his big move to the US. In order to broaden the star's appeal with the Western market, this one has a much more international flavour than many of his earlier films, with the action skipping round the globe, from Hong Kong to Ukraine to Russia and, finally, to Australia. The film is also less focused on pure martial arts mayhem, with more in the way of straight forward Hollywood style stunt-filled action, but when the kung fu does happen it is extremely well handled, with Jackie displaying his usual athleticism, impeccable timing, and flair for physical comedy.The rather messy plot and occasionally slow pacing prevents First Strike from being a bona fide Chan classic, but there is still plenty of inventive stuff to make this one a whole lot of fun, best bits being a wonderful fight scene in which Chan uses a stepladder as a weapon, an exhilarating ski chase down a mountain, some underwater shenanigans with sharks, and a scrap with two Russian man-mountains that involves Chan making a vertiginous leap onto a narrow ledge of a high-rise building.

elshikh4 This is the adventures of Bond's cousin from Hong Kong. Forget the name or the job (Insp. Chan Ka Kui), because this is the Bond formula without the sexual appetizers, the Sci-Fi toys, the huge sets, and the elegant suits. Unfortunately it got the same Bondy plot which's always too thin to be visible. Most likely they wrote and designed the Action firstly, then they looked to trivial matters like putting a story, any story, to fit that, or not ! Obviously Jackie was so desperate to achieve a First Strike in America. After the failure of (The Big Brawl - 1980), he had been forced to be a spoof of himself (The Cannonball Run - 1981), or Dirty Harry (The Protector - 1985), then they let him to be himself (Rumble in the Bronx - 1995), and all of these movies went wrong. Therefore why not to give the western audience what they used to have and mostly love. So here it is a Bond flick done by Chan, yet somehow inside his kind of worlds.But here, badly I think, you'll witness the abstract case of (Chan). Nothing here to watch but (Chan)'s action – very detached - sequences, and nothing disrupts (Chan) to perform his stuff and perfectly, however that's not satisfyingly perfect as a whole. I don't mean a lack of dramatic depth or something, (Shanghai Noon - 2000) is just pure fun and works fine, but here there is nothing else Chan in Action after Action, which wasn't that solidly made as cliffhanger after another ! The absence of some real thrill or comedy makes you want to sleep. No good music, acting, one-liners, or even one-liner ! Nothing is done as good as the certain sequences. You can watch it as 'The Boldest Action Scenes' show – Jackie Chan special episode, and never feel any difference !Despite how this cousin is nicer, how this Bond doing all the madly dangerous stunts by himself, or how it contains historical fearless stunts, I must admit the final result was so ridiculous. Compared to Bond movies it's less entertaining, and to Chan's worlds it's not funny. This non-movie kind of stacking action was at its best nothing but another round into Chan's own circus.. Which was quite tasteless this time.