Police Story 2 (Special Collector's Edition)
by Jackie Chan
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Actor: Bill Tung, Jackie Chan, Keung-Kuen Lai, Kwok-Hung Lam, Maggie CheungDirector: Jackie Chan
Writer: Jackie Chan
Cinematographer: Yiu-Tsou Cheung
Producer: Edward Tang
Writer: Edward Tang
Producer: Leonard Ho
Producer: Raymond Chow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Chinese (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Weinstein Company
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DVD Review: Jackie Chan takes on Abba
Summary: 4 Stars
As night follows day, box office smash hits will get their bigger-budgeted sequels. But while POLICE STORY 2 is bigger, it isn't necessarily better. It's actually a terrific film. I'm just saying it's not as good as the first. But it's definitely worth a look, especially if you haven't seen the 122 minute long version. If you've only seen the much edited international release, then you haven't seen the real thing. Either way, Jackie Chan is still singing that theme song.
For his reckless actions in the first POLICE STORY (demolishing a squatter village, wrecking a mall, holding the police superintendent hostage, etc.) Detective Chan Ka Kui (Jackie) of the Royal Hong Kong Police is demoted to traffic duty. But when the mob boss he had arrested (again from the first POLICE STORY) is released from prison - because apparently he only has three months left to live - Ka Kui and his girlfriend May (Maggie Cheung, getting more screen time) become targets of the mob boss's vengeance. But that's only one set of thugs. Ka Kui also ends up tangling with vicious bomb extortionists and taking on that tiny little formidable deaf-mute martial artist whose only mangled uttered words sound like "Abba, abba." Detective Chan Ka Kui persists in being a loose cannon, and I'm astonished that in the next sequel he isn't demoted to the permanent assignment of getting cats out of trees.
Jackie's trademark slapstick is toned down as his character maintains that incredible intensity for the most part. There are those running gags with the guy whose glasses kept getting cracked and also with Uncle Bill's toilet issues. Even more than the first movie - which to me sort of echoed the Dirty Harry flicks in tone - POLICE STORY 2 is immersed in the police procedural, to the extent that the middle third of the film tends to drag a bit. This is when Ka Kui joins the maverick Special Tactical Unit which specializes in undercover work. In the surveillance sequences, Jackie is relegated to a supervisory position. At times, he's not even in the heat of the action.
Seems to me that Jackie Chan has a misstep only when he wanders across the pond into Hollywood. Part of it is culture, part of it is that in Hollywood Jackie doesn't have as much say in the film-making process, and that's cost him. In the confines of Hong Kong, Jackie Chan is the absolute master of his domain, and he knows his public. In Hong Kong he gives the people what they want. Not as good as the first, POLICE STORY 2 still contains moments which blow the roof off.
Jackie Chan tried to top himself in this one. The first POLICE STORY was noted for the sheer amount of glass shattered. One of this sequel's calling cards is the number of explosions. For the final bang at the abandoned factory, Jackie, wanting it to be as memorable as he can get it, hired the best Hollywood pyrotechnics crew to stage the effects. At the time, for a Hong Kong flick, the result was impressive. The fight scenes are predictably awesome, and Jackie and the goons he takes on look convincing trading punches, and the full contact stuff looks like it hurts. If you go by the DVD's bonus segment featuring the stunt crew, it really did hurt. Maggie Cheung was injured in the head while running thru a series of falling steel frames, and if you notice, from then on, after that stunt, a body double plays May and you never do get another close-up shot of her. The best action sequence is the skirmish at the park playground, although the one in the restaurant isn't at all shabby. I also dig the sexy cop girl unit and the not exactly genteel method the girls apply in questioning the suspect.
The Dragon Dynasty's DVD release has the following special features: audio commentary by RUSH HOUR director Brett Ratner and Hong Kong cinema expert Bey Logan, a Brit who knows more Hong Kong action cinema trivia than perhaps any sane man should; "Celebrating the Sequel": a conversation with Brett Ratner and Bey Logan (00:08:25 minutes); rare alternative outtakes (00:03:15); POLICE STORY 2 Location Guide - Bey Logan walks us thru a tour of location scenes from the film (00:12:18); "Stunts Unlimited": members of Jackie Chan's famous stunt team talk about performing the crazy stunts for the film, and they manage to convey a sense of just how hard and dangerous their job is (00:33:32, with English sub-titles); and the Hong Kong theatrical trailer and the US promotional trailer.
Description of Police Story 2 (Special Collector's Edition)
(Martial Arts/Foreign) The explosive sequel to Jackie Chan?s groundbreaking original, Police Story 2 is famous internationally for some of the most daring and inventive stunt sequences ever committed to film. Despite his success at apprehending criminals, Kevin Chan's unorthadox approach to his work as a police officer sees him demoted to the traffic branch. Despite this, the man he put behind bars is now out of prison, and has vowed to make his life a misery.Bestsellers in DVD
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