Police Story

A tough policeman is assigned to protect the girlfriend of a Triad boss who has agreed to turn informant, but ends up being framed for murder., A Hong Kong police officer must risk his life to protect a reluctant witness who can help him bring down the sinister drug lord who framed him for murder. Jackie Chan, Bridget Lin, Maggie Cheung, Cho Yuen., The story revolves around a man who takes a cop, his daughter and few strangers as a hostage as he awaits the release of a prisoner., Notorious gangster Chu Tao is on the Royal Hong Kong Police Force’s radar and they have a major undercover operation charted out to arrest him and put him behind bars. An honest-to-God inspector Chan is a part of this covert operation and he must risk his life to protect a reluctant witness who has decided to rat on her underworld boss., This was internationally famous Jackie Chan’s breakthrough action film, the work that got him past the ethnic boundaries of Hong Kong and into competition at the New York Film Festival in 1986. It also got him into the hospital after performing a stunt in which he fell through a glass canopy — and stopped breathing. The story itself is not particularly profound. Kevin (Ga-kui) (Chan) is an honest, self-effacing cop who manages to capture drug lord Cho (Cho Leung) almost single-handedly. A reluctant Kevin is then assigned the job of protecting Cho’s secretary Selena (Brigitte Lin) who is going to testify against him. Sure enough, the trial date comes, and Selena disappears, while Cho has to be set free for lack of evidence. The next thing he knows, Kevin is framed by Cho for the murder of a fellow (dirty) cop and is running like heck from the bad guys as well as the police. Some incredible stunts in this film include Chan being dragged behind a double-decker bus. One of Jackie Chan’s trademarks are hilarious outtakes shown during the end credits, and they are among the best here. This feature is repeated to great advantage at the end of his 1998 hit Rush Hour as well. Police Story picked up “Best Picture” and “Best Action Choreography” at the 1986 Hong Kong Film Festival and was nominated for several other awards that year. Sequel after sequel followed., A virtuous Hong Kong police officer must clear his name, when the drug lords he is pursuing frame him for the murder of a dirty cop., Superstar Jackie Chan takes action to a level that only he can, in the first installment of the Police Story series.