Police Story

1985 ‘警察故事’ Directed by Jackie Chan

You may know the name, but the game has changed.

A virtuous Hong Kong police officer must clear his name after he is framed for murder.

Jackie Chan Brigitte Lin Maggie Cheung Bill Tung Chor Yuen Charlie Cho Mars Lam Gwok-Hung David Lau Kam Hing-Yin Wan Faat Fung Hak-On Kent Tong

Alternative Titles

Police Force, Ging chaat goo si, ポリス・ストーリー香港国際警察, Jackie Chan's Police Story, Jackie Chan: Superpoliš 1, Jackie Chan: Superpoliš

action crime thriller

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Popular reviews

Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★½ 21

loved the part where he did the stunt
Review by Timcop ★★★★ 3

There's a moment where Jackie Chan does the moonwalk in order to scrape off some cow poop from his shoe, so you know you're in a safe space. I'll never go to a mall the same way again.
Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 1

Safety last.
Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 2

Jackie Chan is the best that humanity has produced.
Review by karen h. ★★★★½ 2

i have never been so happy as when EVERYBODY in the theater started hollering when jackie chan slid down the mall pole three times in a row
Review by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim ★★★★ 1

U PUSH MAGGIE CHEUNG DOWN THE STAIRS I FIGHT
Review by nathan smith ★★★★½ 8

u might say that chaplin and keaton were the masters of screen comedy and nobody else could ever touch them, but unlike jackie chan, chaplin and keaton never Moonwalked cow shit off their converse. forget herzog, jackie chan is a true solider of cinema; every outtake in the blooper reel is just him getting escorted to the hospital. few others have given so much for CINEMA. that man's body has healed so many times over that he must be a mutant. the restoration is so gorgeous, the color of jackie's sweaters truly pops, and every shatter of glass and gut punch and car crash is as intoxicatingly loud as it should be. not sure how i've seen over 50 or…
Review by josh lewis ★★★★★

there are so many perfectly timed action and comedy beats in this (often simultaneously) it's astounding. the sheer devotion to cinema on display. jackie chan the goat.
full discussion on episode 134 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.
Review by Adam Friedland 4

Jackie Chan plays detective Kevin Chan. A lot of violence towards women for comedic effect
Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★½ 5

More broken glass than a Jewish wedding.
Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 5

Police Story, as its title may suggest, is a police procedural which keeps its story basic in order to better serve as a vehicle for Jackie Chan's truly superlative fight scene choreography. It is literally a lean, mean fighting machine.
The success of Jackie Chan's technique emerges from the lesson of two cinematic masters: Chaplin and Hitchcock. Chaplin taught us that we love to root for the underdog, to see someone on the bottom work hard and be rewarded for his success (this is the simplest distillation of the Tramp character). Chan's protagonist is an average cop taking on a giant drug cartel, and we see his struggles (he takes as much punishment as he dishes out) and rejoice with…
Review by laird ★★★★★ 2

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Buster Keaton, Dirty Harry, and Bruce Lee walk into a bar... Jackie Chan leaps over it.
Testament to this that nearly 35 years on it can still fill a theater and burn it right down to the ground.

Recent reviews

Review by Ross Putman ★★★½

What a bunch of tones! But absolutely incredible stunt work coupled with situational silliness that plays into Chan’s psychical prowess. Often quite funny, and regularly astounding.
Review by Jennifer Moline ★★★

Jackie Chan really is the Hong Kong action version of Buster Keaton. But there's more to this than creative fight scenes: There's the comedy, a decent story and that early sequence with the car crashing down through the hillside town.
Review by Sam Draper ★★★★

The credits of all the outtakes makes this seem like it was the most fun movie to make.
Review by mills4 ★★★★★

i love you jackie chan
Review by Kelly Broderick ★★★★½

Wish I could've watched this with an audience, or even just with friends. The next time this shows at an arthouse theater in LA, I'm going to be there. Balls-to-the-wall ridiculousness. Loved every second
Review by sams8 ★★★★½

i love that this is essentially a jackass movie with a plot, and even the plot parts are still good. jackie chan the best to ever do it
Review by Bryan ★★★★½

Me the entire movie:
“HOLY SHIT”
“But like how did they even do that?”
“There is nothing on the ground to even pad that fall”
“What the fuck?”
Jackie Chan is immortal.
Review by akazerocool ★★★★★

WHAT. this is my new favorite movie what the fuck
Review by Moritz Voigt ★★★½

The stunts in those last 15 minutes in the mall look so brutal, Jackie Chan always has amazing stunts but somehow in Police Story it just looks way more raw than in his other movies. I legitimately wonder how many broken bones the production accumulated in that last scene.
Review by Danny Mason ★★★★

Started watching this and came to the shocking realisation that I'd never seen a full, proper Jackie Chan movie before. Now that I've seen one I wanna watch as many as possible, he's such a great leading actor. Obviously the stunts and the action are what he's known for, but he's also hilarious and this film does a great job of pulling off both the action and the comedy.
Review by David Lipari Jr. ★★★½

Some great gags and impressive stunts.
Review by joelmorris ★★★★

Me saying "holy shit" and "that's fucking impossible" for the better part of 100min