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So (POLICE STORY 4) FIRST STRIKE is a weird flick...I THINK it was them trying to make Ka-Kui into James Bond instead of just a really good HK cop...it feels super weird as a story and in execution. The whole Ukraine section is dismal, barring the bits where Jackie is fish out of water, and the chase down the hill. The rest of the movie in Australia is better as it doesn't feel as bleak, and features more fights...including the ladder fight which is one of Jackie's most iconic. I can't recall if I saw this one in theatres or not...I MAY have, but I didn't remember it. The plot of stolen nuclear weapons is mostly lame, and the shark is next level ridiculous.

It's not a bad flick, and has some really good stunts and fights in it, and Jackie is great as always...but why this had to be a POLICE STORY movie at all baffles me. Like I get that POLICE STORY 1-3 aren't exactly "connected" either...but they are connected enough and Jackie is not trying to stop anything but largely street level criminals as an HK cop. This one basically is like "What if Ka-Kui was James Bond now?" and I don't think it works too well?

Anyways.

I'll be watching NEW POLICE STORY from 2004 next...I hear it's really good, just in a darker and less campy way as the original flicks and In know Jackie is not reprising Ka-Kui and plays someone else....but stacked cast is stacked, with Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu, Andy On, starring alongside Jackie. And I know that a sequel to this movie with the same cast is what Jackie's shooting next as well (before RUSH HOUR 4 gets off the development hell page...if it ever does, I'm not holding my breath, and I'd rather Jackie make more HK-based content than Hollywood content anyways...the HK movies are always more fulfilling).