Police Story 4: First Strike

1997 "They thought they possessed the ultimate weapon. They hadn't counted on Jackie Chan."
6.6| 1h47m| PG-13| en
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Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
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+)
SnoopyStyle Hong Kong inspector Chan Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) is working with the CIA to follow Natasha to Ukraine on a nuclear smuggling case. Soon he's following the bad guys to a hideout where scientist Jackson Tsui is doing a deal. He falls into the icy waters and rescued by the Russians. He starts working with the Russian FSB to find Tsui who was recruited by the CIA. He goes to Australia to get close to Tsui's younger sister Annie and their dying father.Jackie Chan is a fun charming guy. All he has to do is show up with a silly baby seal hat and it's a fun time for everyone. The plot is a mess. A few more rewrites and it could pass for a bad Bond movie. This would be a bad movie without Jackie. With him, this has a few good chuckles and some great stunts. Walking on the ledge of the building is vertigo inducing.
Python Hyena First Strike (1996): Dir: Stanley Tong / Cast: Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou, Jouri Petrow, Bill Tung, Wu Chen-chun: This film eventually strikes out big time with its horrible dubbing, but its first strike is its numerous martial arts sequences that seem to be chain linked. Jackie Chan stars as an agent sent to follow a woman. He discovers that the villains wish to steal a missile off of a warhead. This all occurs during a visit to the Ukraine, which isn't exactly his best bet for a vacation site since he nearly loses his life more times than a cat. Director Stanley Tong knows how to present the action and he is backed with fine winter location sites, but finding a script worth the time is his problem. Chan is subdued to bad dubbing and at one point held at gun point where his clothes are demanded leaving him in his underwear with only a car door to shield himself. Unfortunately he had nothing to shield himself from the lame writing. He is skilled and creative with these stunts, adding an innocent sense of humour, but it is all show and little substance. His co-stars are not exactly hand picked by the Academy Award voters either. Among them are Jackson Lou, Jouri Petrow, Wu Chen-chun, and Bill Tung and none of them are going out of their way to give a convincing performance. Conclusion includes bloopers and outtakes but the entire film pretty much sums that up. Score: 2 / 10
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.