Police Story

(1985) dir Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen w/Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tun, Yuen Chor [100 min; DCP]

The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case’s star witness (Chinese cinema legend Brigitte Lin) from retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography – including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and shattered glass – POLICE STORY set a new standard for rock-’em-sock-’em mayhem that would influence a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood. – Janus Films