Police Story 4: First Strike

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Police Story 4: First Strike, released in the English markets as Jackie Chan's First Strike, is an action-adventure made in the typical humorous style of Jackie Chan.

Jackie reprises his role as "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui yet again as a Hong Kong cop who works with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal guns dealer. Later Jackie realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon find himself a pawn of an organisation posing as Russian intelligence.

The movie was shot partially in Australia where the last half of the movie is based.

To advertise Police Story 4, Jackie recorded the song Zenmo Hui and also made music-video for it. As is typical with Chan's pictures, the US version does not feature the song.

In the American release, the main character's name was changed from "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui, to Jackie, in order to separate from the Police Story series.

1 Box Office
- 1.1 Critical reception
2 Awards and nominations
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Box Office

Police Story 4: First Strike was an enormous box office success in Hong Kong, grossing HK $57,518,794 during its theatrical run. It remains Jackie Chan's highest grossing film in Hong Kong.

The film was released on January 10, 1997 in 1,344 North American theatres, grossing US $5,778,933 ($4,299 per screen) in its opening weekend. Its total North American box office gross was US $15,318,863.

[edit] Critical reception

The version of the film released in North American cinemas by New Line was met with mixed critical response. It currently has a 52% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]

Mike LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle was among the most enthusiastic of the reviewers:

"One of the pleasures of being alive at this period of history is Jackie Chan. There are other pleasures, of course, and other movie pleasures, too. But few things in film today are as reliable as a Jackie Chan movie. Even if the picture is weak, Chan is never disappointing. Watching him in Jackie Chan's First Strike, a brand- new effort opening today, there's no doubt that this is a lovable original and a great popular artist. So this time Chan swims with sharks. He climbs from balcony to balcony on the top floor of a tall hotel building. He even -- get this -- drops 100 feet from a helicopter into a frozen lake, just as the helicopter explodes."[2]

[edit] Awards and nominations

1997 Hong Kong Film Awards
- Won: Best Action Choreography (Stanley Tong)
- Nominated: Best Picture
- Nominated: Best Actor (Jackie Chan)
- Nominated: Best New Performer (Annie Wu)
- Nominated: Best Film Editing (Peter Cheung, Yau Chi-wai)