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Supercop

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Southeast Asian Action Whirlwind
Review: Originally released in Hong Kong as Police Story III, Supercop teams up Hong Kong action god Jackie Chan along with Hong Kong action goddess Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) for a 90-minute match made in Hong Kong action heaven.

THE STORY:

Kevin Chan (Jackie), Hong Kong's recognized Supercop, is assigned on a special mission to team-up with a Red Chinese female cop, Jessica Yang (Yeoh), to infiltrate and take down a ruthless Southeast Asian crimelord.

The story winds itself throughout all of Southeast Asia including Hong Kong, the Chinese countryside, the jungles of the Thai-Cambodian border and finally to the busy streets of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

If infiltrating the inner circle of a ruthless crimelord and not getting your cover blown is bad enough, things become just a bit more complicated for Chan and Yang when Kevin's girlfriend (Maggie Cheung), unaware that Chan is on assignment, shows up at the same location that the investigation leads them too!!!

Overall it's the usual action tour-de-force you've all come to love and expect from the typical Jackie Chan flick and this movie does not disappoint with tons of shoot outs as well as the usual hand-to-hand combat. The real keeper in this movie though are the more outrageous stunts that are done, especially the movie-ending fight scenes on the train and a flying helicopter which features Chan going for a wild ride all over Kuala Lumpur.

THE DVD:

Well, if you're hoping for a pretty loaded DVD, you've come to the wrong place as this DVD features nothing beyond the chapter breaks and Spanish language subtitles. Easily, this is the most disappointing Chan DVD I've come across yet. The DVD is good strictly in the sense that this decent action flick is now preserved for digital posterity with a decent DVD navigation system.

THE VERDICT:

Overall, if you're into good action flicks, Supercop does the trick for you. While the actual fight scenes may not be as elaborate as some of the other movies Chan's had released in the US, this one does not disappoint. The story is pretty decent and the dangerous stunts at the end in K.L. are pretty adrenaline pumping. Overall, whether bought, rented or borrowed, this movie is definitely worth the watch.

Recommended

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: real good entertainment
Review: Quality martial arts entertainment. Watched it on TV and then
bought it from amazon.com for my 10 year old son.
The type of combat movie where you get lots of action but
dont have to watch all the blood and gruesome details
they always insert in American made movies. Lots of humor too.
Jackies best film, in my opinion. You dont fall asleep
in front of this film.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: action galore!
Review: Supercop is a high budget action movie that is worth the money. The director of this movie is stanley tong who also directed First Strike and Rumble In The Bronx. I loved Michelle Yeoh in this movie. She does great stunts and great martial arts. Great finale at the end but I won't ruin it for you.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fairly entertaining and pretty decent action/comedy
Review: Supercop is an okay Jackie Chan vehicle. It features some fantastic stunts, mostly in the climactic fight and there are some genuinely funny moments, though it doesn't rank as high as some of his other features like First Strike, Who Am I?, Police Story, or Drunken Master 2. As a matter of fact, Supercop may very well be the weakest film in the Police Story series (It's Police Story 3 officially and I haven't seen Police Story 2). Yes, it features Michelle Khan who is the best physical partner Chan has had in a movie but the film suffers from long absences of Chan and too much villain plotting. There's also not enough martial arts action as we get more boat chases and shootouts than kung-fu. Yes, those action sequences aren't boring but they're far from amazing as Jackie Chan's moves. The movie, while humorous at certain points, also feels a bit too violent. Sure, there have been far bloodier action films but Supercop doesn't feel as lighthearted as his other features and it even has Chan killing a few bad guys with a machine gun. That's not what he does in his films. He prefers to take them down. Sure, he had no choice in this movie but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Super Duper!
Review: Supercop was meant to secure an American audience for reigning kung-fu king Jackie Chan. What they're not telling you is that Cop is actually a re-release. Originally titled Crime Story III (a sequel) and filmed in 1993, the present version has a new, rap-oriented soundtrack and some exquisitely lame dubbing.

The story is utter nonsense. Stanley Tong is one of Hong Kong's finest directors because he does everything he can to drop his star into the danger zone with a minimum of distractions. Follow the superfluous plot and you might figure out that Chan is undercover in a Chinese labor camp, aiding the escape of a thug who deserves to be there. After that it's the requisite night boat to Hong Kong where we meet the evil supercreep who makes the godfather look like a postal clerk.

The action whizzes by so fast that keeping track of all the Tangs, Chang's, and Wangs would take a rhyming dictionary. What I went for, what you should go, for is Master Chan and his bursting bag of bad guys, blow ups, and swift kicks to the groin.

And you can't beat the final surface to air mega-chase. It's a car, it's a train, it's a helipcopter--it's all three. Yow! that looks dangerous.

The art of Chan is about his Buster Keaton-like deadpan, his confident modesty in a stadium full of rocket launchers and hand-grenades. And as for those big, bad aliens?--he'll kick their intergalactic ( ) too.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Supercop
Review: The movie is ok but it is a superior film in Cantonese. The dubbed English is awkward and detracts from the film. I find the "dubbing" very annoying and would prefer the vintage Hong Kong Jackie Chan films marketed in the US be provided in the original language. Argggh!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Supercop
Review: The movie is ok but it is a superior film in Cantonese. The dubbed English is awkward and detracts from the film. I find the "dubbing" very annoying and would prefer the vintage Hong Kong Jackie Chan films marketed in the US be provided in the original language. Argggh!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A could be better performance by the "great" JACKIE CHAN.
Review: The third sequel to Jackie's smash hit which changed the action film industry, Police Story, comes another regular action packed thriller. Although there were some great stunts leading to the capture of the main villan, Jackie Chan's action doesn't even come close to what he is capable of. Jackie's other sequels to this parady which also include First Strike and Police Story 1 and 2 are not only funnier, but the action is more diverse. Diverse meaning, wider. There's more action, better comedy, and a better acting job in the other three sequels. Supercop is a great film for first-time American action movie watchers, due to American director's minute imagination when it comes to action movies; however, when it comes to Asian standards, this movie doesn't match some of the other movies Jackie had out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome
Review: This film is just great, don't pay attention to the plot (with is pretty thin to begine with!)the film is just plain full of action. From kung Fu fights, to shoots-outs, to explosion, all leading up to a great (let me take a big breath for this!) "prison-van/wimpy sports car/helicopter/motorcycle/train chase" at the end is just plain amazing. It includes hallmark moments like Michelle Yeoh hanging on to the side of a prison van, she also jumps on a motor and drives it onto the top of a MOVING TRAIN! All through the film everything is beutyifully shot, with lots of style. So who cares it seems like the prison garuds about 20 minuets in don't seem to even understand what is going on (though, yes, it is pretty werid, but it gives the ecuse for a small kung fu fight.), who cares if it makes no sence that the wife of the drug lord is being exicuted in malaysa, yet the illiegal money is in a swiss bank acount. I have only one grip with the Police Story series is Kevins girlfriend May, she is so annoying, if May is always so jelious why is keving dateing her?
Parents - Supercop is rated R in America and 14A in Canada, the film contains violence, people being shot, some violence aginst wemon and action scens to intencs for little children, but my opiniun is that most of the jackie Chan films out there are proably okay for an 8 year old.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Supercop (1992)
Review: This film really should be called "POlice Story 3: Supercop" but anyway in this film Jackie's sidekick is Michelle Yoeh (James Bond's sidekick in "Tomorrow Never Dies"). Together they pose as bad guys to infiltrate the drug gang and go undercover to destroy the operation from the jungles of Thailand to the city streets of Malaysia. Jackie battles the bad guys in some of the most spectacular stunts yet! Jackie won a Best Actor Award. Highlight: when Jackie jumps from a building to a rope ladder hanging from a helicopter. Great film!


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