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One of my all time favorites.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

I watch Jackie Chan movies for the goofy humor and the amazing, Buster Keaton-inspired martial arts. For those, I'm willing to put up with the almost inevitable poor plotting and dopiness.Unfortunately, Supercop has the flaws I associate with Chan but fewer of the strengths.For the most part, this is not a martial arts film but a big-budget bombs-and-bullets movie in which a militarized police force battles militarized drug gangs in pitched battles. Yes, sometimes Chan or Michelle Yeoh will do a clever stunt or fight a little, but mainly this is a high-body-count extravaganza that is fine if you like that sort of thing. Some of it's decent, particularly in the last half hour when Chan gets a train and helicopter to play with, but overall I found this hugely disappointing.

Once again Chan Returns for another instalment of the Police Story movies and once again he truly pushes all his stunt work even further with some amazing action sequences. It introduces a welcomed Michelle Yeoh into the mix and creates what may be one of the greatest chase scenes in the history of cinema.Firstly Chan is back as the devoted and skilled inspector Chan. Whilst he does have a few opportunities to demonstrate his comedic prowess, for the most part the film is a lot more serious than previous instalments to the Police Story films. Instead the film gives him a few opportunities to show a more dramatic range of acting skill. But obviously Jackie's greatest talent has always been in his stunt work and it is showcased brilliantly here, dodging helicopter blades and jumping away from explosions. How he didn't already die several times over in his career is a testament to his skill. But the often show stealing delight of the film comes from Michelle Yeoh who's cast here as Chan's assisting officer. She is possibly one of the earliest and most kick ass female heroes of the action genre, with lightning fast fighting moves and matching the stunt work of Chan. Thankfully the film doesn't go for the usual clichés. It doesn't try forcing any unnecessary romance between the pair. Instead we get a welcomed equal team dynamic with both working together the same way you'd expect two skilled trainers to work together. Yeoh comes off as having slightly less field experience than Chan at one point mistakenly throwing a live grenade into a room of explosive, but is still just as skilled a fighter as Chan and comes across as a better tactician and planner. It takes a lot to even come close to a stunt master like Chan, but the fact that she even steals the show at points is a real testament to her skill. The first hour of the film is what you'd expect from a kung fu star like Jackie Chan and the Police Story films. Chan and Yeoh are both put undercover to investigate a drug ring. The story is more interesting than the previous Police Story films with the interesting undercover element and how they go about persuading the drug kingpins to let them in on the plans. There are many big scale action sequences to keep the plot going to ranging from a training sparring match with Chan against another more disciplined officer and others where Chan and Yeoh have to evade police officers who don't know they are undercover. But what really makes this film a standout even amongst a great star like Jackie Chan's work is the final chase scene. Already Police Story had it's incredible intro chase in the first film where Chan single handedly chases down a bus, but this scene blows it out of the water and is one of the greatest chase sequences put to cinema. It's fast paced, varied and has some of the most impressive stunt work put to film. It goes all over the place with Chan and Yeoh chasing the drug kingpin on top of cars, fist brawling on rooftops, dangling from helicopters and a battling on top of a train. Instead of using effects or stunt doubles for these sequences then as with all of Chan's greatest work, no effects are used whatsoever with he and Yeoh performing all the stunts themselves. Some highlights include Chan smashing through billboards whilst dangling on a helicopter and Yeoh driving a motorbike on to a moving train. The dangerousness of these stunts comes clear at the end of the film where we see Yeoh miss a jump between cars and falls to the pavement from a moving car. It's really a testament to both actors skill and devotion that they were able to pull of such an incredible sequence.The entire film is great, but that final chase alone makes the film worth watching. It really is up there amongst the best chase sequences ever put together on screen.

This is a great example of Jackie Chan's mind at work. He knows how to make the best action/comedies and his loyal fans appreciate his efforts. As well as having great costars who can act the part, it must be noted that Maggie Cheung did ALL of her own stunts. The out takes are worth the price of admission, alone. When they show Maggie falling on Jackie wearing the bomb vest, you can tell how much fun they had working together. And the number of takes it took to get it right is evident. His girlfriend in the movie could not have been more cute and helpless. Women 'lobbers' might not care for this as much as the rest of us. When he started coming to the US to meet with directors and producers, he had a lot of time to kill,so he became familiar with the work of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.The comedic influence of these two silent film giants is very obvious.

The third installment in the "Police Story" series has Jackie Chan going to China to intercept the henchman (Yuen Wah) of a drug kingpin. Assisting him is a no-nonsense officer (Michelle Yeoh), while his girlfriend (Maggie Cheung) has no idea what he's up to. As can be expected, the whole movie is an excuse for a series of stunts, namely the sequences in Thailand and Malaysia. I actually didn't like "Jing cha gu shi III: Chao ji jing cha" ("Supercop" in English) quite as much as the first and fourth movies in the series -- I've never seen the second one -- but there's no denying that it's a really fun experience from beginning to end. Really cool.Stanley Tong later directed Chan in "Rumble in the Bronx" and "First Strike", and then directed the atrocious "Mr. Magoo" movie.