 "Vintage Chan--and Chan's the Man" | 2008-08-10 |
| - Reviewed By all the letters of my real name from Bovine Universe |
In this great action film, Jackie Chan plays an undercover Hong Kong cop with attitude. He's sent to Communist China on a joint operation to break a drug smuggling ring. The chief cop he's supposed to work with is a gorgeous young woman (Michelle Khan). She mistakes his breezy attitude for softness and he has to duke it out with the martial arts instructor of the Beijing police academy.
The dubbing is simply awful but that's part of the fun. The two cops stage a prison break for the brother of the drug lord they are out to get and manage to infiltrate the criminal gang. The plot takes us through most of the countries of Southeast Asia and the stunts get more and more hair-raising. The American edition is only 91 minutes long, but I'm sure only the dull explanatory stuff has been cut. |
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| "Malaysia Boleh" | 2007-08-17 |
| - Reviewed By loo from Malaysia |
| Maybe I'm bias... of course with the 2 Miss Malaysias - the ravishing Datuk Michelle Yeoh (that's a Malaysian Dame equivalent) and Ms Samantha Schubert and the KL skyline well 5 Stars. Malaysia Boleh! |
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| "a must-see Jackie Chan masterpiece" | 2007-05-11 |
| - Reviewed By Bryan from Carolina, USA |
Basically the 3rd movie in the Police Story series (First Strike is the 4th and last), Supercop has very little connections to the 1st 2 Poilce Story movies, which were very closely related. Jackie Chan returns as Kevin Chan, and his girlfriend Mei is still played by Maggie Cheung. I have seen Supercop numerous time, and each time its like watching it for the 1st. The story is better than many Chan films, and the action and stunts are easily amongst the best.
The story, takes itself a little more seriously than some Chan films, say compared to Mr. Nice Guy or Rumble in The Bronx. The humor is more of a minum because of that, but there's still a funny couple good moments. I think the plot is interesting and suspensful, taking advantage of Kevin Chan playing an undercover agent throughout the movie. His sidekick, or should I say boss, throughout the film is played by Michelle Yeoh, also undercover along side him, and gives an equally great performance in the film. The dubbing is far better than most films, and if you prefer Jackie Chan's own English voice, he provied his own dub in Supercop.
The action is used sparingly throughout the beginning of the film, making everything run a little slow. But the movie begins to progress more and more nicely throughout. The finale is huge. 15 minutes of straight all out action from fights to some of, if not, the best stunts ever done. Chan jums on and hangs from a helicopter ladder over the city, and Michelle Yeoh hangs off the side of a van for dear life and steers a motorcyle right up ontop a moving train. Its all real and its must see.
Fan or no fan of Jackie Chan, this is just an all out great movie. No its not recognized as a masterpiece, but in a slightly smaller world this is A++ entertainment. |
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 "Not exactly the typical JC movie" | 2007-01-03 |
| - Reviewed By Mabuse from Huerth, Germany |
This movie is a bit different than the 'typical' Jackie Chan movie. It has IMO a more solid and more sincere story than the other movies.
Especially the first part of the movie playing in mainland China is different. In this part, Michelle Yeoh as Chinese officer is a bit overdone, however the prison break is a really remarkable piece of JC cinema. The following part of the movie features a resort type adventure with typical 'early JC' slapstick components. The last part of the movie plays in Malaysia and contains non-stop action, which some never seen before stunts including a bike ride on a train plus a helicopter landing on the same train.
All in all a very entertaining JC movie, featuring different Asian locations and a high tension, super action sequence at the end. Watching the 'making of' is also recommended because it really shows the difficulties to perform the stunt sequences for this movie. The only drawback of this movie are some overdone and a bit ridicoulos slapstick scenes. I can recommend this movie for JC fans who want to watch a slightly different JC movie than usual. |
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| "Supercop" | 2006-08-09 |
| - Reviewed By R. Seighman Jr. |
| Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh rock in Supercop! Jackie plays as an undercover Hong Kong cop that must infiltrate a Chinese gang and stop their corrupt drug trafficking. With the help of Michelle Yeoh, who is also undercover with him, it's up to them to stop this gang and get their dirty money back and give it to their government. This is an awesome film! The action is really great in this movie and of the first wave of the Jackie Chan movies that hit mainstream in the U.S. in the mid to late 90/s (RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, FIRST STRIKE and SUPERCOP), this is my favorite. It's also very funny as well. There's a good set of laughs throughout the movie. And of course, Jackie's patented outtakes in this one are REALLY Good (ie: helicoptor). Check this one out and also check out some of Jackie's other greats like RUSH HOUR and RUSH HOUR 2, RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, WHO AM I and OPERATION CONDOR. Also check out Michelle Yeoh in CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON. |
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| "This version is a decent buy" | 2006-03-07 |
| - Reviewed By we lamas are traditional enemies of the shaolin from omaha, NE |
| It's just like all the jet li movies, but the dubbing isn't near as bad, not good, but certainly exceptable. I would like to see the full version, only if there are more fights, there were really not very many in this. As a whole, I would call this Jackie's best modern day film. And oh yeah, michelle yeoh is the shiznit. NICE STUNTS JACKIE, YOU HAVE TOPPED YOURSELF AGAIN. |
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